We tried the Mangkwan Mousse dessert, so you don’t confuse it with the other mousse and start a dessert uprising at Satu’li Canteen at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
If you’ve ever walked through Pandora: The World of Avatar and thought,
“Wow, this place could really use more banana,”
Walt Disney World heard you… and answered in the most Satu’li Canteen way possible.
Introducing the brand-new Mangkwan Mousse, a dessert so strikingly alien you half-expect it to glow in the dark or whisper “I see you” before you take a bite. Priced at $6.29, this cinnamon-milk chocolate mousse sits atop a caramelized banana cake, is drizzled with banana-sesame caramel, and is sprinkled with chocolate-sesame crumble.
Or, in simpler terms: If you like banana, you’re about to ascend Eywa-style. If you don’t… flee. Immediately.
Mangkwan Mousse Dessert: A Dessert for the Bananabrains (Said With Love)
This Satu’li Canteen dessert looked small when the cast member handed it to us. This concerned us. However, that failed to deter us from enjoying the Mangkwan Mousse dessert.
The decorative chocolate pieces look good. They also offer a reasonable flavor for a Walt Disney World treat costing less than a churro.
Let’s get this out of the way: This thing is unapologetically delightfully banana. Okay, we are overselling this right now. Still, we are not talking cutesy banana. Also, not “maybe there’s a hint of banana if you concentrate” banana. This is full banshee-charge banana. However, that level of banana receives a taming from the cinnamon and chocolate components. Additionally, the chocolate crumbles pair very well with the banana flavor. Guests wishing to tone down the banana aspect will find the crumble very useful.
Banana cake. Banana caramel and aroma that would make Donkey Kong rise from the foliage in approval. Well, if they could get MIne-Cart Madness at Universal Epic Universe to increase its loading speed then Donkey and Diddy Kong would love this new Pandora dessert.
The cinnamon-milk chocolate mousse softens things nicely, giving it that signature Satu’li texture—ultra-smooth, almost too pretty to eat, and vaguely suspicious in its impossibly glossy appearance (we love it). The sesame notes add an earthy, nutty complexity that makes the whole thing taste expensive, like the kind of dessert a Na’vi pastry chef would only serve on special occasions.
However, if a banana is not your friend, this dessert is not your destiny. The Mangkwan Mousse dessert makes zero effort to hide what it is. Even though the banana hit us hard at first, it lessened in intensity the more we ate it and combined it with the chocolate. We also experience a bit of banana aftertaste.
Order with Caution — The Other Mousse Lurks…
A quick PSA before someone accidentally reenacts the Battle of the Hallelujah Mountains at the pickup counter:
There is another mousse on the menu. Yes, really. The Metkayina Mousse still exists, and no, they do not look similar, but their names are similar enough that mobile orders may accidentally turn into riddles.
If you ask for “the mousse,” be prepared for your cast member to stare at you like you just said you wanted to ride Flight of Passage backwards. Be specific. Or prepare for dessert roulette instead of the Mangkwan Mousse dessert you thought you were ordering.
On the serious side, we expect the Metkayina Mousse to be removed from the Satu’li Canteen menu soon. However, on the day we ordered the Mangkwan Mousse at Satu’li Canteen, the other one was available on mobile order.
Pandora Also Dropped TWO New Drinks Because… Movie Tie-In Time!
With Avatar: Fire and Ash hitting theaters this month, Disney decided it was time to supercharge the beverage game across Pandora. Honestly? They understood the assignment.
At Satu’li Canteen: Trader’s Tailwind ($16.50)
- Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
- Bols Triple Sec
- Mango Purée
- Orange Juice
- Chamoy
- Ginger Beer
- Chili-lime rim
- Garnished with a dehydrated blood orange slice
At Pongu Pongu: Nightwraith Blaze
Blood orange, lychee & wildberry slushy
Glow cube (because of course)
Passion fruit juice-filled pearls
Optional float of Tito’s Vodka
This one basically screams “BUY ME” with its neon glow and flavor profile that says “if a banshee made a smoothie.” It’s fruity. It’s fun looking. It’s very Pandora.
Mangkwan Mousse Dessert
The Mangkwan Mousse is a win…if banana is your love language. It has the expected high-quality texture and uniquely alien visuals Satu’li fans adore, and it fits perfectly into the cinematic hype machine for Avatar: Fire and Ash. However, we would not race to Satu’li Canteen just to try this dessert.
Still, since Satu’li continues to be a top Walt Disney World quick-service restaurant, we expect to enjoy it again after a tasty bowl or cheeseburger pod.
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