Bye Sungbok Station ๋น ์ด ์„ฑ๋ณต์—ญ

3์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ๋ป”์งˆ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋“œ๋‚˜๋“  ์„ฑ๋ณต์—ญ… ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰๋‚  ์•„์นจ์—๋„ ๋‘์‚ฐ์— ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์ธ๊ป˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ ค ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค….๋‹ค์Œ์— ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ๊ณ„์† ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด WhatTheburger ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋จน์–ด๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค….

Bye Sungbok Station!

2025.10

McDonald’s in France

ํ‡ด๊ทผ์ด ๋Šฆ์—ˆ๋˜๋‚  ๋ญ˜ ๋จน๊ธฐ๋„ ์• ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋กœ์ผˆ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ๋งฅ๋„๋„๋“œ ํ™•์ธ…์ผ๋‹จ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ์‚ผ์ƒ‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฐํ˜€์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค๋‰ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ผฐ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ “๋ถˆ์šฐ”์˜€์Œ…ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋ญ ์ง„์งœ ๋กœ์ผˆ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋Š” ๊ฐํŠ€์— ํ๋“€ ์น˜์ฆˆ์˜ฌ๋ ค์ฃผ๋Š”๊ฑฐ์˜€๋‹ค..:)

Checked McDonald’s local menu

2025.9ย 

Enjoying DFW

๋“ ๋“ ํžˆ ์•„์นจ์„ ๋จน๊ณ  ๊ณตํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค… ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฐˆ๋•Œ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ๊ณตํ•ญ ์‹œ์„ค์—์„œ ๋ณธ์ „๋ฝ‘๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋“œ ๋Œ์ž…

Priority Pass๋กœ ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์‹ค์—์„œ ์ž ๋„ ์ž๊ณ …. Club์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ์Œ๋ฃŒ์ˆ˜๋„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์ƒค์›Œ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜จ ๊น€์— Whataburger๋„ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ๋กœ Seattle๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ• ์‹œ๊ฐ„…

Same as outbound, tried to maximize the use of airport facilities primarily with Priority Pass ๐Ÿ™‚ 1 hour nap and shower with a snack and drinks ๐Ÿ™‚ Then I recalled Whataburger so after having the nice burger, time has come to finish this trip’s very last leg to Seattle

2025.8

Chase Sapphire Lounge at Boston Logan Airport

์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋”์ด์ƒ์€ Chase Sapphire Reserve๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธด ํž˜๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋˜ ์™€์ค‘ ๋ฏธ์ „๊ตญ์— ๋ช‡๊ฐœ ์—†๋Š” Chase Sapphire Lounge ๊ฐ€ Boston์— ์žˆ๊ธฐ์— ๋“ค๋ ค์„œ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋งŒ์„์ด๋ผ ์ข€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ์ž…์žฅํ•ด์„œ ์—„์ฒญ ๋จน์–ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ ์‹ฌ๋„ ๋ชป๋จน์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋น„ํ–‰์ถœ๋ฐœ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋Šฆ์€ ์˜คํ›„๋ผ ์ €๋…๋จน์„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋„ ๋งˆ๋•…์น˜ ์•Š์•„ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๊ฒจ ๋„ฃ์–ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ..:) overprice๋ค ๊ณตํ•ญ ์Œ์‹์€ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์‹ซ์€๋ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘ Lounge๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ..

๋ถ€ํŽ˜๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋ฉ€์–ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋จผ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์•‰์•˜๋”๋‹ˆ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹๋„ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์— ์ด์ƒํ•œ ๊ตญ์ ๋ถˆ๋ช…์˜ ๋น„๋น”๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ  ๋ฌด์•Œ์ฝœ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์‹œ์ผœ๋ดค๋‹ค….

๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ข€ ๋‚ฏ์„  food experience์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณตํ•ญ Lounge์—์„œ ๋จน์–ด๋ณธ ์Œ์‹๋“ค ์ค‘ ์ œ์ผ ๊ณ ํ€„ ์Œ์‹์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค…

๊ณต์งœ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋Œ€๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋„ ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋„ ๊ผญ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋‚ด์„œ ๊ผญ ๋“ค๋ ค์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

Had a wonderful experience, although crowded and gone theu waitlisting (getting waitlisted is still sensitive experience for me after going thru my son’s college admission process ๐Ÿ™‚ )at Boston Airport’s Chase Sapphire Lounge…maybe the best airport food I had was served during my visit

Alaska 246: Seattle to St. Louis

Now having a highschooler who learns various things means we have to send him to other states for multiple week long summer camp – Now I look back and even smile on the old days I was complaining to have “expensive” local summer camp when these kids were in elementary or so…

This year for my #2, it is 4 weeks in Midwest (and he needs to go to LA after this ๐Ÿ™‚ ) so I had to resume the duty of transporting the kid to out of town ๐Ÿ™‚ and due to conflicting schedule we decided to fly out to St. Louis on Friday afternoon.

Rather than getting ripped off at airport with hyper inflation impacted foods, we also tested Alaska’s in-flight meal (as this one is long haul – they graciously “sell” the meal with pre-order only:) ) which were Penang curry and Korean beef burger ๐Ÿ™‚

๋ฐฉํ•™์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ป‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ํƒ€์ฃผ๋กœ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์•ผํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐฉํ•™๋„ ์ž‘๋…„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฐฉํ•™ํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ์ฒซ์ฃผ์— ์• ๋ฅผ “๋ฐฐ์†ก”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ตœ์ข… ํ–‰์„ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๋„์‹œ๋ผ ์• ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผ์ž ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š”๊ฑด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น„ํ–‰ํŽธ ์ผ์ •์ด ๋”ฑํžˆ ๋งž๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์—†์–ด ์ผ๋‹จ St. Louis๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด์„œ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์šด์ „ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์„ ํƒ…

์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๊ณตํ•ญ์—์„œ ๋ง๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋ฐฅ๋จน๋Š”๊ฑฐ ํ„ธ๋ฆด๋ฐ”์—” ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒํ•ด์„œ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์„  ๋…ธ์„ ์—์„œ ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋งŒ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐฅ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ›์•„๋จน์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ… Penang Curry๋Š” ํ•œ 6์ž… ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋์ด๊ณ  Korean Beef Burger๋Š” ์–ด๋””๊ฐ€ Korean์ธ์ง€ ์ž˜๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค… (์ด์ œ ์Šฌ์Šฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ป‘ํ•˜๋ฉด Korean๋ถ™์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋“ค๋ฆฐ๋“ฏ ํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋” ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋“ฏ…ใ…Žใ…Ž)

๋ญ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์•ˆํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋„์‹œ3๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋‚ด ์˜ํ™” ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์กธ๋˜ ์ค‘ ๋ฐ˜์ฏค ๊ฐ์ƒ.. (๋‚จ์€ ๋ฐ˜์€ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰ํŽธ์—์„œ ๋๋‚ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค..) ๊ทธ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋˜ ์ดˆ๋กฑ์ด step์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋„ ๋ณด๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์žฅ์ด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ ์‹ถ์Œ…

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์˜ค์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€๋ดค์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 20๋…„๋งŒ์— ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…

2024.6

Whataburger

์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์—” ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ์— ์™€์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ์•ˆ ์—ฐ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์•„๋ฌด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋˜ DFW๋‚ด์˜ ๋จน๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค…

์ผ๋‹จ Priority Pass๋กœ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋Œ€์‹ค ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋น ์ ธ ์‰ฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€… ๋‹ค์Œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ํƒ€๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ์ „ Skylink๋ฅผ ํƒ€๋ ค ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ์ „ Terminal์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋‹ค (์‚ฌ์‹ค ํ˜น์‹œ In N Out์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜…ใ…Žใ…Ž) ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ Whataburger ๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ Whataํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹น์žฅ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์„œ ํก์ž….. ๐Ÿ™‚

Whataburger in DFW Terminal D got my blood boiled ๐Ÿ™‚

2023.10

White Castle

OMG – White Castle!!!!! – I could have cross the street to get it if I was not full ๐Ÿ™‚

์ฒซ๋‚ ์€ ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ์ž ๋งŒ ์ž˜๊ฑฐ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ถ๋น„๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๋™๋„ค์˜ ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ์‰ฌ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ – ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ถ€๋ฅธ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ž๊ธฐ์ „์— ์ฝœ๋ผํ•œ์ž” ๋“œ๋งํ‚นํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋ฐค์— ๊ฑธ์–ด๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค. ๋‹คํ–‰์ธ์ง€ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€์ธ์ง€ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋ฅธํƒ“์— ํ˜ธํ…” ๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ็™ฝๅŸŽ – ๊ฐ€๋ณผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง„ ์•ˆ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ง„๋งŒ ํ•œ์žฅ… ์ข€๋งŒ ๋œ ๋ฐฐ๋ถˆ๋ €์œผ๋ฉด ๋›ฐ์–ด๊ฐ”์„ํ…๋ฐ… ์•„๋‹ˆ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๋„ ๋จน๊ณ  ์˜ฌ๊ฑธ ์‹ถ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ธฐํšŒ์—… ๐Ÿ™‚

2023.2

Gordon Ramsay Steak @Paris Las Vegas

์ €๋…์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ $5์งœ๋ฆฌ ์ŠคํŒธ๋ฌด์ˆ˜๋น„๋ฅผ ๋ฉ•์ด๊ณ  ๋ฒ„ํ‹ด๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ Las Vegas์— ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ •๋„๋Š” fine dining ๋น„์Šค๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ๊ฑธ ํ•ด๋ด์•ผ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋น ํ๋ฆฌ ํ˜ธํ…”์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ ์š•์Ÿ์ด ํ• ๋ฐฐ ๊ณ ๊นƒ์ง‘์— ๊ฐ”๋‹ค. (๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์•ž์˜ ํ„ฐ๋„์ด ๋„๋ฒ„ํ•ดํ˜‘ํ„ฐ๋„์ด๋ผ๋‚˜…ใ…‹ใ…‹)

๋ญ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ … ์‹๋‹น ๋จน๋Š” ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‚˜ – ์ด๊ฑฐ ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ fine dining์ด๋ผ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„… ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋จน์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค.

Weird enough – British chef branded restaurant at Paris hotel – first kind of fine dining with family setting (hungry and furious 2 boys) made me worry about the amount of food being enough or not during the whole dinner (back up was midnight Taco run) but luckily was good enough and tasted good.

2023.2