When you review the menu for Wonderland on Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas, you may be a little freaked out or scared, but I am telling you that a meal at Wonderland is worth it, especially if you have children, especially picky ones. Our experience at Wonderland wasn’t just a meal, it was a culinary adventure and if you like to taste new things, you will love it. If you want to see the cocktail I ordered to start the meal, visit the Yumness.Eats Instagram page for the reel with the Cheshire Cat Cosmo. I also later sipped on a blue margarita that tasted like Palmolive, so I quickly swapped it for a glass of wine and let my uncle suffer through it.
Our server brought us a variety of appetizers from the menu and that totaled six different and interesting dishes, and we tried each and every one. They were divided up into five elements: Sun, Ice, Fire, Earth, and Sea. I have ranked my most favorite to my least favorite, starting with 1. Mad Hatter’s Purple Potted Shrimp (I think) from Fire because the dipping sauce had a kick. It wasn’t purple, so I may be incorrect, but this was the only shrimp appetizer listed on the menu. Anyway, it had a great crunch and the shrimp were huge. The dipping sauce reminded me of a spicy aioli and it added another flavor aspect that I enjoyed.
Ranked next was 2. Reconstructed Caprese from Sun. I enjoyed this because when you create one all-encompassing bite, it tastes exactly like caprese with fresh tomatoes and mozzarella. The large red object in the middle was tomato and so were the smaller green and tan globules. My bite included mozzarella, green glob, and the oil splashed on the side, and it all worked.
Up next is 3. Liquid Lobster from Sea. After enjoying a bowl of lobster bisque the day before, this was reminiscent of that. The dish is only one bite and includes lobster, caviar, and broth. If you like lobster bisque, like I do, you will like this, but unlike lobster bisque, you don’t have a whole bowl of it, you only have one bite. You will need to savor it.
The next up was 4. Crispy Crab Cones from Ice. These cones were made of wonton and were stuffed with wasabi, crab, and avocado mousse. The wasabi was at the bottom, so my first bite was great because I went in from the top, but my second bite was awful because it was just cone and wasabi. Fortunately, others at our table ate the whole cone correctly and had a more pleasurable experience. It reminded me of the crunchy sushi rolls that I normally order, but that wasabi was a killer.
Now, I am going to get to the two dishes that I did not enjoy but ate anyway. So, 5. Tomato Water from Sun is exactly what it sounds like. The top had a bread foam that ended up kind of just mixing in with the water. If you like to eat raw tomatoes, this one would be for you. If you do not, like me, then it is two seconds of your life that you can say you spent eating a liquified tomato. Moving on.
Finally, we get to my least favorite 6. Citrus Seas Shhhh from Ice. My husband and uncle loved it and said it was, “Awesome.” For me, it was a scoop of floral snow and caviar on top of spicy tuna poke. It was freezing and the citrus and flower taste wasn’t my favorite. I preferred others over this one and didn’t love the temperature of the spoonful of icy tuna.
While the adults were enjoying the interesting appetizers, the kids had their own smaller adventure. My daughter and my son received their appetizers and they were both the Mad Hatter’s Crispy Mac & Cheese Fries. The mac and cheese was shaped into a fry and then deep-fried until crispy. They loved them and my daughter won’t even eat mac and cheese with “sand” (AKA breadcrumbs) on it. That was a win.
My son loved his King of Hearts Royal Wonderland Burger because it came on a stick. It had all the ingredients of a cheeseburger but the cheese was a little more fancy than my son is used to, so he didn’t love the cheese but enjoyed the rest of it and tried his best to eat it together. He even tasted the palette of dipping sauces.
My daughter ordered the March Hare’s Corn Chicken and it was a basket of crunchy little popcorn chicken bites. She ate a few of them but then said she was full. She even tried the fries on the side, but I think they were yuca or something similar so she didn’t eat them.
My uncle and aunt ordered The Chicken and the Egg from Earth for their entrees. It looked great. I like when chicken has a sauce, so it was probably delicious.
My mother and I ordered the Rib T Luscious Short Rib from Earth for our entrees and it was tender and tasty. The sweet potato puree (the orange one) on the side was great with it too.
The desserts were up next and my dessert video can be viewed on the Yumness.Eats Instagram. It was The World and it was chocolate and peanut butter decadence. My daughter ordered a fun dessert called the Jabber Wocky’s Golden Egg, and it included Oreo mousse on a brownie surrounded by pink cotton candy. She obviously didn’t finish it but got through a bunch of the cotton candy and half of the brownie.
We were served another interesting dessert called the Mystical Mushroom Garden. It was a collection of mousse, sorbet, and meringue. Hard meringues are kind of useless unless you have to form a shape like a mushroom, but the rest of it was good. The mango sorbet was refreshing and the pistachio white chocolate mousse hiding under the red mushroom shell was creamy.
For Wonderland on Wonder of the Seas, I give the whole experience a 10/10 because it was a memorable family journey through culinary delights. I can’t wait to experience all of this again on our next cruise but I do hope to try a few of the other items on the menu that we missed out on like Wonton Soup or Baby Vegetables in the Garden which probably do not even closely resemble what their name depicts. So fun!
Wonderland, Wonder of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
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