- I think you can fold, I think the fold method,
because they are so thin.
It's been a long time since I've had New York pizza.
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Good morning everyone.
It's Mark Wiens with migrationology.com in Lisbon, Portugal.
It's about 6:30 am.
Ying and I are packing up everything,
and we are about to go catch
the metro heading to the airport.
We have a flight at about 10 a.m. this morning
to New York City, so this is
our final goodbye to Lisbon.
Thank you very much to Fontecruz Lisboa,
which is a Marriott hotel.
Maybe the dark theme is not my personal preference,
but this hotel is in an amazing location in Lisbon,
right along Avenida, which is a beautiful, beautiful street
and very close to some plazas,
good restaurants around here,
great location, great service.
Thank you for the stay.
(fare box beeps)
(Mark mumbles)
(speaking in foreign language)
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- We made it to the airport.
That was about a 35-minute ride on the metro.
So if you take the metro from the airport
to Lisbon City center,
give yourself about 35 to 45 minutes.
We got all checked in to our flight,
now walking to our gate.
I think I will turn off the camera now
because security is gonna be pretty, pretty tight,
so I will see you in the airplane.
We are on our way to New York City.
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The short flights that Ying and I have taken
on this trip so far with Star Alliance
is the one or two-hour flights.
The planes, they've been okay for business class.
But finally, Ying and I have
a long flight on business class.
This is fantastic.
Ying, what do you think?
Ying? (chuckles)
Look at the size of the seat
and the reclining ability.
And I think it's gonna be about an eight-hour flight.
We're flying into Newark Liberty Airport.
And, oh, I'm gonna sleep well,
oh, and eat well too.
Ying has her seat.
- What happened?
(Mark chuckles)
Ying, try.
- [Ying] Hmm?
- [Mark] Try to bring your feet over there.
Oh, Ying can't even reach the end.
I just wanted to catch you up in case you are joining me
on this video series right here.
But right now, my wife Ying and I...
How's that apple juice?
Are on a round-the-world trip with Star Alliance,
and so we are traveling to nine, or 10 different cities,
if you count our home in Bangkok,
10 different cities,
we're going around in 10 different cities
and traveling for the food.
Let me give you a quick tour of this booth.
Got the TV here in the front, a good size TV.
There is a shelfing unit here.
There is a added foot rest below here.
Right in my back here, the full size pillow,
very squishy indeed.
And then if you take a look behind the seat over here,
but I'll show you on this side
just because it's more convenient,
I've got all the plugs, USB, headphones.
I'm not sure what this is.
What is this?
- [Ying] Open it.
- [Mark] Oh, this is like a little...
Here, here.
Oh, here we go.
Oh, how fancy,
the socks, the eye pad (chuckles),
the eye pad, the eye, what is it called?
The eye blocker and toothpaste, toothbrush,
oh, fantastic,
all the essentials within this little tin.
And this is the Olympic edition, 2016.
Ying is already taking advantage of her seat
and taking a nap.
We're gonna be taking off soon,
so I will turn off the camera,
and I will turn it back on
to show you the first meal.
Oh, and this is the menu.
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We are somewhere in the middle of the air now
over the Atlantic, and they just served us
some nuts as well as a drink,
and now starting with lunch.
I got the brown piece of bread, butter.
Actually, let me tear off a piece of the bread,
the warm roll with some butter.
And now this is the appetizer,
shrimp and salmon and lemon, shrimp.
Mmm, it has a gingery taste to it.
Then the piece of salmon, oh, I think it's stuffed.
The smoked salmon, maybe it's stuffed with
a little bit of cream cheese and a lot of dill.
Thank you.
She served me a nice salad next,
and I went for the balsamic vinaigrette dressing,
got this little micro plastic pepper.
Okay, and that should be good.
Nice to have a full salad.
- Some nice fish.
- [Mark] Thank you.
- Enjoy.
- I just opened up the window.
The light is much better now to show you the food,
but I'm gonna have to kind of selfie it.
On the menu, they had a choice
of a couple of different things,
including a steak, but I decided to go for the salmon,
and then the salmon came with a shrimp on top,
some vegetables, and then couscous on the bottom
with some kind of a gravy,
and it looks like, is that pumpkin?
I think a spoon would be in order for this.
That is a wonderful piece of salmon.
Get some of the gravy to go with that.
Mmm.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Salmon, the couscous is very fluffy,
and then that gravy is like a,
I think it's kind of a tomato-y,
lightly sweet gravy all over it,
even though it's already delicious with the lemon on it,
and gotta sprinkle on the rest of that little pepper.
That gravy is awesome,
and then with that couscous, that is fantastic.
This is an amazing meal.
I like it with that squeeze of lemon.
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That entree of salmon was delicious.
And now they rolled around a cart with cheese and grapes.
Follow that with a grape.
The combination of cheese, the salty cheese
with juicy sweet grapes,
and follow that yet again.
And that concludes lunch on this flight.
That was a full-on gourmet fine dining experience.
And the food was actually really good.
I think just with fudge and almonds.
- [Flight attendant] One spoon is okay with ice cream?
- [Mark] Thank you.
I actually thought the meal was over,
but one more dessert course,
and she drizzled on some fresh fudge sauce,
and then I added on almonds as well.
That is good quality and good chocolate sauce,
and I like it with those slivers of almonds.
What a way to end a gourmet meal in the sky.
I have not seen Ying this happy in a long time.
She is hanging out, eating ice cream
while watching a movie.
There's absolutely nothing better than eating a good meal
and then being in the chair to just recline.
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It has been about two hours since our last lunch.
And I'm not really sure what time of the day it is
in the world where we are flying,
but I think this is lunch number two.
You could have either gotten the cheese plate,
but I decided to go for salmon again.
So this is salmon lunch number two with noodles
and then also a fruit bowl here.
Let me take some of this sauce.
Mmm.
Oh, it's teriyaki sauce.
Cool.
And that same wonderful salmon.
Let me try some of these noodles.
Mmm.
Maybe there is soba,
buckwheat, possibly.
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We just landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Thank you very much to United and Star Alliance.
That was an awesome flight, good food as well,
and I did not want that flight to end, actually,
but we are here, New York City.
And they just warned us to not take out
any cellphones or cameras in customs and immigration
or they will confiscate them,
so I'm not gonna take the risk.
I'm about to put the camera away into my bag,
and I will see you guys on the other side of immigration.
That all went smoothly, got our bag.
We are now walking through the airport
heading to ground transportation.
We're gonna try to take the train from Newark
straight to Manhattan Penn Station.
And our hotel is right in the middle of Manhattan.
We're on the little airport shuttle.
We landed at Terminal B,
and we are on our way to the airport train station.
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New Jersey Transit Rail, I think that's what we want.
And we are going to New York Penn Station.
There are so many options (chuckles)
one-way adult, add,
then we pay too?
- [Ying] Yeah.
- [Mark] Multi-Pay.
No, back.
Hey, that was $13. - You don't have receipt.
- Oh yeah.
$13 for the tickets.
There were so many options.
(train bell ringing)
Here we are.
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This would be about a 20-minute ride, I think.
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Let's exit Madison Square Garden.
We got lost a little bit in Penn Station,
wandered around for a little while,
but I think we are emerging in the right exit on 7th Ave.
Okay, welcome to New York City.
It has been about 10 years since I've been here.
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We are walking over to the Courtyard Marriott,
the Chelsea branch,
and it's just about a five-minute walk from Penn Station.
Great location.
Push, push, push, push.
Hello. - Hi guys, how are you?
- [Mark] Good, thank you.
Check-in for Mark Wiens.
- [Receptionist] What's the last name?
- [Mark] Wiens, W-I-E-N-S.
Two, zero, zero, one.
Okay, zero, zero, two.
Oh I see, on the end here (mumbles)
the end room, oh yeah.
- [Ying] Exit (chuckles).
- [Mark] Right next to the exit.
Whoa, it's a huge room (chuckles).
- [Ying] Wow.
- Wow.
This is the entire, there's an entire living room,
dining room, and desk here.
And we drop the bags off and quick tour of this place.
Oh wait, let's go look out the window real fast.
Oh yeah.
20th floor, look at that view of New York.
Actually, we see a lot of rooftops,
but it's an amazing view still.
And then bedroom all the way on the other side of the hall.
Opposite side view of New York City.
(light rhythmic music)
No real plan, just gonna kinda meander around,
walk around slowly,
and maybe try to find something small to eat.
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We took a walk down the street
probably for about 30 minutes
and didn't really know what to eat,
so I thought it would be fitting
to have my first meal in New York City
at this legendary pizza place.
And pizza is one of the iconic foods of New York City,
so I'm gonna go inside and get a couple slices.
- Slice number one?
Next please.
- [Man] I'll have a slice one.
- Next?
- [Mark] One pepperoni and one cheese.
You walk inside, they have all the pizzas at the front.
You wait in line, then you choose your slices of pizza.
I think most of what almost everybody was getting
was just either cheese or pepperoni,
just the normal pizza slices.
I got two slices, just a cheese and a pepperoni,
and then I immediately put on some chili flakes.
And I'm gonna start with this just cheese
because this was right out of the oven
right as I ordered.
And I think you can fold,
I think the fold method, because they are so thin.
Mmm.
It's been a long time since I've had New York pizza.
The crust is crispy.
But where the sauce meets the dough, it's gooey,
and then that's a nice tart tomato sauce
and then the salty cheese.
Mmm.
I like the amount of sauce ratio in this pizza.
It gives the pizza a very nice tart tomato flavor.
And those chili flakes on there are very good as well.
That does give it some nice spice.
They are, that chili flakes are pretty good.
Let me try the pepperoni.
And at the top there, you can see how much pepperoni.
That's almost like a whole entire covering of pepperoni.
Let me pour on the rest of those chili flakes
which have fallen off onto the plate, all right.
In order to get the pepperoni on my first bite,
I'm gonna have to make it a big bite.
Mmm.
Successful.
I definitely like the pepperoni one better.
That gives it the extra salty meaty dimension
that goes so well together with the cheese,
the tomato sauce, and that thin crust.
Mmm.
Great way to start this trip to New York City.
From here, Ying and I are getting very sleepy,
so we're just gonna walk very slowly back to the hotel,
so I'm gonna end the blog for today right now.
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Good night from New York City.