Off to Hong Kong! Got super
embarrassed at the check-in because I decided to get a ‘kids meal’ instead of a
regular person’s meal and the lady looked at me like “are you sure?!”… it sadly
was quite embarrassing, just thinking about it makes me cringe…
Food on the plane was decent. Since I ordered
a kid’s meal my meal was served first before everyone :) firstly comes chicken
nuggets with curly fries accompanied by peas and carrots. The highlight of my
meal was the Hagen daaz that they served as a dessert. I was so worried that it
would melt I decided to eat it first only to find out that it was frozen rock
solid! Took me a good five minutes to gnaw through the first bite. Still,
getting ice cream on a plane is always a plus.
Slept like a baby with a crick in my neck. A
nice mandarin lady sat beside me. She didn’t know a word of English so I got to
translate the menu items for her and practice my mandarin for the whole flight.
She somehow introduced me to her son via the pictures that she took with him
when she went to Canada to visit him. I now know way too much about him and she
gave me his number so that I could ‘meet up’ with him once I was back in
Toronto. Ya right, not sketchy at all when I met him. I can just be like “hi,
you don’t know me at all but I met your mom on the plane and she decided that
we should be friends, wanna chill some time? Nice lady but a little delusional.
I kind of felt like I was in a matchmaking session when she described and
showed me pictures of her son.
Breakfast: was kind of shitty. Had pancakes
that had a funny aftertaste. The granola bar was sadly oatmeal so it was just
super fibery. The yogurt was good, but really, you can’t screw up yogurt.
All in all, I give airplane food a 6.5/10
because the breakfast was not at all enjoyable. On my trip back I’ll make sure
not to get the kid’s meal to save myself from embarrassment and a shitty
breakfast!
We arrived at the Hong Kong airport at 5 in
the freaking morning, we thought the airport bus would be running but the first
bus was a 6:50 so we decided to take the taxi. The bus driver had quite a hard
time trying to fit in all our pieces of luggage…
For my first breakfast in Hong Kong, I had a
fried pork cutlet burger, and yes, that is a perfectly legitimate food item for
breakfast. It was surprisingly good, it had a bit of gravy sauce in it and the
bun wasn’t dry at all :) For a person who doesn't really enjoy bread items, this was actually really good!
For lunch, we went to the super hyped up
rotating sushi place called “genki sushi”. The food was good, you get to choose
which plates you want to eat by taking plates of the conveyor belt in front of
you. The sushi was fresh and enjoyable although it was a bit on the pricey-er
side of things.
We went to “Satay King” (direct translation)
for afternoon snack. SUPER good food there! I had a white curry pork culet
meal. It was super yummy :) I highly suggest that you go during afternoon times
because the set meals are a bit cheaper than if you went during the lunch hour.
All in all, a good first day. Super busy but lots of fun. I'm not foreseeing a lot of sleeping time during these next 5 weeks.
What is the first thing that you do when you get off the plane? go on an eating frenzy? or maybe try to fix your jet lag?
