Hawaiian Airlines EXTRA COMFORT vs. BUSINESS CLASS Flight & FOOD REVIEW! Los Angeles to Seoul

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What if I just rent a car drive and go grab food and just you know, nap in the car. I think I could work This place is called la tofu house. I think it's fairly new So they serve tofu soup and also galbi, but they said it might be out of it So I think i'll just get a fish in a in an ox bone soup Also, I figured um la will have a lot more places that are open maybe 24 hours or past two o'clock Not really everything shuts down at 2 a.m. This place is one of the only places that's open here in koreatown Food's finally here Oh, that spicy soup is so good. Also ox bone soup as well I feel like this needs all the salt Ah a lot better. Let's have some creamy xiao long tang Anyway favorites definitely the spicy seafood soup. It's now 3 a.m It's been two hours since we got off the plane. This is very very very much needed. Oh, that feels better now Let's go grab a burger This is it Original tongs. I've seen this place around la a lot. I've never been here. Here we go chili cheese fries With a double cheeseburger with everything and everything includes lettuce tomatoes pickles and chilies Wow It is now 4 a.m. So I don't know whether this is breakfast or dinner or something in between Hmm, it's good chili. This is one messy burger This is good This is good a couple of perfectly seared patties Juicy sweet tomato gooey cheese that nice meaty chili beneath the patties Oh Well, that chili's got some bite to it, too. This is definitely one hefty burger Maybe something I shouldn't be eating at four o'clock in the morning But I really don't think it's gonna be much food on a flight I also don't know what it is four o'clock in the morning. Not sleepy at all All right, gotta get up and start heading back to the airport Lunch time so today i'm flying hawaiian airlines Comfort plus I am able to search out pretty well, especially when the seat is back Other than that, the seats are pretty much just like the ones in economy. There's no difference in food between Comfort plus and economy snack mix a famous cookie from the honolulu cookie company egg tomato onion green chili Parmesan bagel roll in a very hawaiian themed wrapper First couple bites. Oh, I have yet to taste the green chilies or onions I have hit tomato It's just okay. It's like a hot pocket with powdery cheese inside And occasionally you'll get a tomato You didn't get a tomato, but I think soon if you keep biting you'll catch up to one. Yeah, catch up This I know I like And for entertainment downloaded a bunch of episodes of shaman king new anime on netflix, pretty good so far I don't know why maybe because i've been conditioned since like elementary school juice and water just tastes better from a cup This is awesome. By the way, so there's uh some cold sandwiches in this lounge instant noodles looks like the best thing here I really like this ramen. By the way, this ramen appears a lot in their pro lounges. It's spicy. It's got good flavor The soup is nice. Here's a easy ramen hack for you. I learned this in korea string cheese in the instant noodles equals melty stretchy awesomeness Basically, whatever cheese get your hands on tossing in there. They're not blue blue cheese Never tried that but imagine wouldn't smell the best so hawaiian airlines business class Blanket slippers. Look at this. They give you a little seat cover Oh, yeah So hawaiian airlines probably the only airline that I know of they give you an ipad for the flight That has all the movies and stuff on there Um does not have wi-fi. Oh, there's a plug here Thank you. Thank you so much Let's see what's in here tissue earplugs Socks which is gonna be really helpful because we got a 10-day quarantine coming up eye mask Guava juice that didn't come from this pouch Dental kit hydrating mist lip balm hand and body balm and a wooden comb I'm, really really happy for this pen already had to fill a bunch of poems out See if we can find some good reading material aka the menu. Thank you Speaking of which Oh nice after takeoff you get macadamia nuts first course fried tofu tomatoes There's two option one is miso salmon Option two is southeast asian style braised beef. That sounds good Oh dessert looks awesome. And then before landing there's pork meatball with spicy tomato sauce Also, let's see what they have throughout the flight. Seriously most exciting reading material on any flight. Look at this Oh, these are nice slippers This is the nicest airline slippers i've ever seen looks so comfortable. Also. I really like the covers This is so so nice. Usually i'll be wiping down all the seats, but here you don't have to oh, this is so nice So they gave each one of us a customized Like a postcard from the captain the nice note inside So, like I said hawaiian airline gives you this ipad to use So there's movies tvs audio games Lunch is gonna be tomato cucumber salad And braised beef with broccoli rabe on top a little carrot and christine got the miso salmon, which she can't even really eat because It's got cucumbers all over it. She's allergic to cucumbers. I want to take tofu on top of her salad I'm kind of jealous. I want a tofu on my salad. Let's try this Oh, this beef is tender though And it's covered in some kind of weird goo All right, that beef is tender. It's got no flavor A little salt and pepper pack. Yeah, this is gonna come in handy and christine's salad has the tofu and the dressing mine is just vegetables And I think ketchup My tofu is pretty good Oh, that's a hard piece of salmon So salmon is really really tough and it's covered in miso sauce along with diced onions and cucumber I think the miso sauce at least has a lot of flavor But that salmon tastes like it's never even seen water before Zero moisture. I think hawaiian business class the staff is amazing Everyone is so friendly when it comes to the food. I think I miss my cup noodles and string cheese Oh dessert's good. It looks good. It sounds good. No, this is actually a culture jump. I think i'm gonna be using all of this I mean, I made it spicier, which is better Dessert actually looks really really good. There's a goat cheese panna cotta with strawberry yuzu It is mind-blowingly good. This one thing makes up for the main course. Wow, so creamy And they use real vanilla beans in here I eat 50 of these. I mean the texture just feels like someone laying a soft velvety blanket all over my tongue This is one of the best desserts i've had on any airline snack time bowl of instant noodles I know this is just a pack of shin ramen But it's spicy. It's delicious and it always hits the spot Oh, yeah I wish more airlines would carry shin black though That's the good stuff Just woke up about an hour and a half before we land and they came by they said if uh, I wanted a snack Of course I said yes This is what they call a snack three giant meatballs. I like how they snack around here Add a little gochujang Oh, that's good Best food I had all day and certainly best snack i've had all day meatballs. So Juicy It's not overly dense, but a nice texture great shoe sauce is delicious, too Especially with a little additional gochujang. I wish we got some dinner rolls to wipe up all the sauce with Flight overall has been really really comfortable slept really well. It's pretty good. I like the pillow It was really really hot for some reason on this flight, but now it's just perfect I think the best thing about hawaiian airlines. Honestly, the staff is so Nice really accommodating every time I go to the bathroom. They ask me if I want to eat something or drink something I appreciate that. I think it's 4 a.m Back in the u.s right now or something. I try to sneak in one little nap before we land So here we are my second stint in south korea quarantine. Let me show you around my room. So this time I uh Got pretty lucky. This is the grand hyatt hotel Bathroom, it's actually a bathtub. See what's in here Oh, there's a robe and slippers This is the room nice bed Pretty spacious beautiful desk got a tv the typical hook for lifeline So a lot of korean hotels, maybe all of them come with Come with this is basically a ladder for you to get out of your window if something happens I wish all hotels had that. Oh, they really need to buy a converter and supposedly the view is nice the view is Not bad biggest difference this time Got a roommate So we got in around 9 p.m this is Dinner right here a bag of snackies Shin ramen What is this? This looks good pringles iced tea crunchy chocolate Whoopie pie korean specialty cookies orange juice water chopstick Biggest thing I noticed about where we're staying now is that no microwave So i'm gonna have to be a little creative in terms of heating up food I did take a little bit of precaution just in case our hotel room didn't have a microwave Uh, we'll see how it works out tomorrow in the meantime Make some dinner Since there's no microwave. I hope there's instant noodles every single day Anyway gonna give you guys a little breakdown about how this whole process went in case anyone has questions about coming to south korea Right now again, the situation is changing all the time So I don't know if by the time this video publishes if the situation can be different But here's the procedure we went through to get here So the requirements now are more strict than when I came last year I remember last year I took a covid test never had to use it to get on the flight or to enter the country But now a pcr test is required for you to even board the flight And then they'll check it again when you try to enter the country and you need that test within 48 hours of your flight Also, there's a bunch of stuff you need to print out before coming here So you need to print out your pcr test. You need to print out your visa That's something else that changed. Everybody needs a visa now to get in and the visa is called k-e-t-a. It's not hard to get It's pretty much an automated process. Once you submit your information, you'll probably get it in about 30 minutes So print that out print the covid test results out But don't worry if you didn't because they do have a printer Um, we got really lucky because when we came in not a lot of people are arriving There's really no way for the printer We just went online printed out the forms But it's just much easier when you have every single thing printed out before you land also Uh, you need to print out this consent form So this is a consent form telling you that when you get to south korea You're gonna be quarantining at their facility and you're gonna be paying for it. I think the first time I went Um, I flew korean airline, so they gave me the form, but this time I flew hawaiian airline So they didn't have the form available for me They had to actually go print it off online for and give it to me. I'm guessing this form is online So I would say print it out sign it before you go to your flight. Otherwise, they won't even let you check in So when you land there's a lot of checkpoints to go through a lot of forms to fill out Once you get through all that they put you in this waiting area And you really have no idea which facility they're taking you to We didn't find out how we're about to board the bus and some of these facilities like some have microwaves Some do not some have different food options like the last facility I stayed at had no bed sheets Uh, really there was no towels and right before you do that They ask you to download an app, but when you get to the facility They're gonna ask you to download a second app and that app is really we're gonna use during the facility stay where you're gonna submit Your um temperature I was given a thermometer then you're gonna submit your health status twice a day last time I remember I had to take covid test I think on the second day of the state this time I took a test right away Um before coming up to the room and of course last time was a 14-day quarantine this time 10-day quarantine And of course if you have family here, you can submit a family document and then you're able to quarantine at home Of course, like I mentioned before the facility you're staying at you're paying for it yourself And usually the hotel stays are capped at 150 So, uh at some hotels like this one usually goes for over 200 a night. So actually not a bad deal staying here I think that's it. Um pretty similar to the process I went through last time besides the uh the now required pcr test within 48 hours and we got pretty lucky because I know there were some that were saying that um Their family were separated like the the husband and wife may be separated where their kids even At some point were separated from them because some facilities do not allow you to quarantine together So luckily we were able to stay together So in this case both of us in one room the cost was one and a half So they charge you for one full person and 50 off the other person So yeah gonna be here for the next 10 days. And like I said, um, this trip was so last minute We put this two days ago while we're both in new york because something unexpected happened and we had to travel here right away Oh also want to say, um, if you are lost for whatever reason I mean the process is kind of daunting the people we dealt with Um at the airport to the people we met at the facility extremely extremely helpful extremely nice So, uh, if you do have a question get stuck somewhere just ask someone Oh one last thing I want to mention try to get a korean sim card and korean number before you arrive here It's going to save you a lot of hassle because you're going to be asking for your korean number everywhere all the forms And also if you don't have one make sure you have a contact that's going to vouch for you here in south korea And they're going to call them right away. If no one picks up you're not getting out of the airport So very important detail. All right, I think that's it I'm going to cover what quarantine is going to be like for the next 10 days in a different video Oh one more thing I forgot to mention had to shave and clean up a little bit I'm, actually launching a rewards program called dumpling rewards, which I really hope will be really cool for you guys So by joining you'll be able to getting access to rewards and vip experiences like an all-expense-paid vip food tour of new york with well Me, I don't know Hopefully that sounds fun You'll be able to earn prizes and points by collecting digital cars that I will be dropping through my youtube videos and my social Media channels, so make sure you're subscribed to this channel Follow me on instagram and click on the link down below to join. All right, i'm gonna go to bed. Bye everybody