The excitement I feel now is exactly how I felt on the way to Germany. The plane is much larger, but still the same feelings. I'm actually excited about the next 14 hours.
I may be one of the only people that truly enjoys airplane food, but the meal offerings sound pretty good. My rule of thumb is to eat whatever the traditional foods are. 1. Because the American imitations are never that good and 2. You gain a little respect from the people on the flight. The first thing I had was Korean Rice Wine. It was interesting (kind of sour and milky), but the taste grew on me. Its funny that they served alcohol for free, but a $1600 plane ticket will get you a little more than a $600 one (Shoutout to Tech and my tax returns for coming through).
The meal I ate was called Bibimbap and was pretty good. Luckily, there were directions on how to eat it, but it is basically a mix of pickled veggies, ground beef, and you added white rice and sesame oil before you mix it ll up. They also had a hot sauce, which I loved, called Gochujang.
It was served with soup- chicken broth with dried fish and chives, fruit, kimchi-which was ok, and these strange looking dried things. Now these dried things have me stumped because it appears the have eyes and resemble little, tiny, dried worms---surly these are not worms. So I ask my neighbor what they are and he replies, "tiny fishes." Ok, I will try them just to say I did, they are not bad, but I cannot get over the fact that their little beady are staring at me and they crunch when I chew them.
The flight attendant seems amused about my food choice, so I ask her what those tiny fishes were as I waited to use the restroom. She said she didn't know and told her how much I liked the hot sauce and she laughed, amazed that I can eat spicy foods. By time I get readjusted into my seat she hands me a note with 3 tubes of the Gochujang. The note read:
Hi :)
This is Asiana Flight attendant
EunJi.
The food you ate little fish
name is 'Anchovy'
I hope you have a good time
in China ~
Happy to fly with you.
See you again love (heart) 2014.5.12.
- In Flight-
Yeah....I'm going to need them to prove that those were anchovies!
Well 4 hours down, 10 more to go...at this point the adventure got slightly less exciting.
When we got to Seoul, South Korea I planned on staying inside the airport until my flight the next morning. However, they told me I had to take my bag through customs so i did. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn't get into my gate because I needed to check in for my flight, but was too early to be checked in. This is when things got interesting. I had to go and find a hotel and every person told me to go to a different station across the airport. as I lugged my heavy bags around, exhaustion was real.
I eventually just found a cabbie and told him I needed a hotel room. He was happy to take me and he essentially found me a cheaper hotel room in the city, and arranged for me to be picked up early the next morning for my flight. It was convenient, but expensive. Seoul can be very expensive as I found out. I paid about $250 for all of this but I gained a nice experience from it all. I actually got to see the city as the airport is actually located on a nearby island. What was even more cool is that we studied this in school and now I was walking around and riding through it in person! Such a long and crazy experience, but it all worked out and I was able to sleep comfortably. Next stop Guangzhou!
(Sorry for my picture quality, I haven't had time to edit them yet, but my Instagram post look much better. Will have better images for future posts. I was trying to get this together as quickly as possible)
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| Incheon Airport |
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| The view from my hotel room. The thing in the distance is a stadium. It was used for the Asian Games |
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| I stayed at the "Four Seasons." It was a bit different than I imagined LOL |
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