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

Wingstop

Looks like Wingstop also joined the battle of Chicken burger ๐Ÿ™‚

์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” Wingํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋“œ์…”์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.. ์œ„์ชฝ์— ์‚ด๋•Œ๋Š” ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐ”์—ˆ๋˜๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜ค๋‹ˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ์„œ ์‰ฝ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์€๋“ฏ…๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ง›์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ข‹๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

2022.11

Charburger from The Habit Burger Grill

Begin of new semester means new call of duty as a driver to Seattle in every Saturday ๐Ÿ™‚ and unfortunately the shortened distance from home in last year has now returned back to driving to Shoreline in every Saturday.

Actually I remembered this burger shop from years ago, but actually endeavored to test out for the first time.

Thought it looked like a local but turned out to be a California one now backed or owned by a major company. ๐Ÿ™‚

Tasted good but now knowing this originates from California just makes me wonder more when In-N-Out will be crossing to north of the Columbia river ๐Ÿ™‚

์ƒˆํ•™๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋‹ˆ ํ† ์š”์ผ์•„์นจ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์…”ํ‹€ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ Bellevue์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด Seattle์ชฝ์ด๋ผ ์ข‹์•˜๊ฑด๋งŒ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ Shoreline์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€…์žฅ๋‹จ์ด ์žˆ๊ธดํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ๊ฑด ์šด์ „๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์กŒ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์šด์ „์ˆ˜๋กœ์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ผ์ •์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์ ์‹ฌ์„ ๋–ผ์›Œ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค Local์ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋จน์€ ํ–„๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ…

(์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๋‹ˆ made in California ์ด๊ณ  -๋ญ ์ข€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋“ฏ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ Yum! Brand๊ฐ€ ๊ฟ€๊บฝํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์ฒด์ธ์˜ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ์˜€๋‹ค..) ๋ง›์€ ํ›Œ๋ฅญ..

๋‹น์ตœ In N Out์€ ์–ธ์ œ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง„๋‹ค๋ƒ… Beaverton In N Out์€ ์ •๋ง ์–ธ์ œ์—ด๋ฆด๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ใ…Žใ…Ž

2022.10

In-N-Out at Dallas

In-N-Out burger at the deep in the heart of Texas…near Love Field.

There are two types of states in US for burger mania who lives in Washington state. The states with In-N-Out and the states without In-N-Out, and The Great State of Texas is one of the formers.

์ฐธ์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ์•—๊ฐ„์„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋“ฏ… Washington์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” Burger mania์—๊ฒ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹๋•Œ In-N-Out์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์™€ ์—†๋Š” ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค… ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ•˜ํ•„ ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋”ฑ Love Field๊ณตํ•ญ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•ž์— ์žˆ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž (๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ณตํ•ญ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” Whataburger๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค..)

2022.5

Whataburger

์ด๊ฑฐ ์—„์ฒญ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์–ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์€๊ทผํžˆ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ํ˜ธํ…” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜†..ใ…Žใ…Ž

This one had some share of my mind when coming to Dallas

2022.5