Concept art for Satu'li Canteen.
The Satu'li Canteen is one of the food venues at Disneyworld's Pandora: The World of Avatar theme park.
Storyline[]
The canteen was once a Quonset hut structure used as a mess hall by the RDA. After becoming abandoned, Alpha Centauri Expeditions hired a restaurant to convert the building into a cultural hub for humans and Na'vi, decorating it with art and items from the Na'vi to reflect the two groups' newfound understanding and collaboration with one another. The interior has been converted into a museum-like section displaying various gifts and heritage items from the Omatikaya Clan, the original inhabitants of the Valley of Mo'ara.
Menu[]
- See: Satu'li Canteen menu at the official Disneyworld website
Satu'li Canteen is a "fast-casual" restaurant known for its healthy meal options, including rich grains, fresh vegetables, and hearty proteins. Made with ingredients from Pandora (or rather inspired by Pandora), the menu includes many international food items and uncommon ingredients, as well as vegetarian options and specialty drinks. The menu has breakfast and lunch/dinner variants. Drinks include the Pandoran Sunrise, a tropical drink served in a cup modeled after a Na'vi flute, and various alcoholic beverages themed after Pandora.
Reception[]
The restaurant is known for its unusual food items, as well as its unique adaptation of well-known dishes. One of the most iconic dishes featured at the canteen is the blueberry cream cheese mousse, a colorful dessert item topped with passionfruit curd. The restaurant's specialty beverage, the Pandoran Sunrise, was met with initial negative feedback at Disney Cast previews, one Cast member describing it as "just awful".[1] [2] The drink's recipe was supposedly reformulated shortly after the park's opening.[3]
Some people have also taken issue with the restaurant serving and promoting meat, feeling it is antithetical or hypocritical to the themes of the series, especially as this is a real-life restaurant on Earth for humans, not the Na'vi trying to survive on Pandora. James Cameron is vegan, once created a plant-based Avatar coobook, and commented, "Eating meat is not only killing us, it’s killing the planet. The environmental impacts are enormous."[4]
Trivia[]
- The menu sign for Satu'li Canteen at the park as well as the online menu lists "ber'ri" next to the desserts section, implying this is meant to be the Na'vi word for "dessert". The word itself is not phonetically correct according to the Na'vi language.[5]
- "Satu'li" is the Na'vi word for "heritage", and was created by Dr. Paul Frommer specifically for the park.[6]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2017/05/06/eat-this-not-that-in-disney-worlds-pandora-the-world-of-avatar/
- ↑ https://www.disneytouristblog.com/satuli-canteen-review/
- ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2017/05/15/review-the-new-satuli-canteen-in-animal-kingdoms-pandora-the-world-of-avatar/
- ↑ Cameron Brings Pro-Vegan Message To Sundance Docu And To The Set Of ‘Avatar’ Sequels Green Film Shooting article
- ↑ https://wiki.learnnavi.org/index.php/Phonology
- ↑ http://naviteri.org/2017/06/ayliu-a-ta-eywaeveng-kifkey-uniltirantokxa-words-from-disneys-pandora-the-world-of-avatar/
| Pandora: The World of Avatar | ||
|---|---|---|
| Attractions | Flight of Passage · Na'vi River Journey | |
| Refreshments & Vendors | Pongu Pongu · Satu'li Canteen · Windtraders · Colors of Mo'ara | |
| Lore | Valley of Mo'ara (Swotu Wayä) · Pandora Conservation Initiative · Alpha Centauri Expeditions · Jaclyn Ogden · Kam Demarco · Marshall Lamm · Stevens · Shaman of Songs · Txopu · Valke | |