There's nothing like having a whole plate of stink beans
right before you get on the airplane.
Oh yah.
Chai mai krub Ying?
Hey everyone, it's Mark Wiens with migrationology.com.
Today is the day, or actually a little bit later tonight, my wife Ying and I will be
starting our round the world trip for food with Star Alliance.
And I have been so excited the last couple days that last night I could barely even sleep
because I could not control my excitement to start this trip.
I have some packing to do, actually I think I might just show you a little bit of my packing,
I want to show you some of the gear that I'm taking with me on this trip.
Then I'm going to have a quick dinner, then we're going to jump in a taxi and we are on
our way to the airport.
I am very grateful to have an amazing wife who packs all of my clothes.
Oh there she is.
But it is up to me to pack all of the electronics.
I'm going to do this kind of quick and snappy.
I have three external hard drives each of them are two terabytes each.
These two I'll be backing up everything twice, all of the content, all of the videos.
These are battery chargers.
I got four extra batteries.
Two cameras.
This is an extra lens.
This is the main camera that I'll be using.
I have an extra Rode video mic, this has a terrible name, but it's really called a dead kitten,
which is to put over a microphone to cancel out the wind.
It's a wind breaker.
A flashlight, some wires, some cleaning equipment, my phone.
Got my main computer here which I'll be editing everything with, the cables, a mouse, you've
got to have a mouse when you're video editing.
Some waterproof bags, some bags.
These are the only tripods that I'll be using, they are easy to handle and they are very
transportable, very easy.
These are highly important, which are, and I would recommend it for anyone who is traveling.
These are all purpose plugs for anywhere you are in the world, there's nothing better than
arriving somewhere and you have no idea what the plug is and not having to worry about
it, but you can just use this thing.
It's all purpose.
And then a, this is an extra battery.
And one more thing that I always travel with is a power strip.
There are, it's amazing how all the hotels around the world, they all seem to have just
one or two plugs, and when you have to plug in five different things or ten different
things at once, this is absolutely key.
Apart from, let me see if I can show you over here.
Oh here's Ying's makeup mirror, oh and there's Ying.
This is our second camera, so we'll be taking two cameras with us, and yah that's all of
the gear that we'll be taking with us on this trip to film this entire vlogging series and
making videos.
Ying and I are going to be traveling for about a month and a half outside of Thailand, so
there was no way I was going to leave Southeast Asia with out a plate of stink beans.
Which is one of my all time favorite things in the entire world.
My mother in law has just cooked a typical meal that I eat at home all the time.
We are going to definitely have dinner on the airplane tonight as well.
They just never get old.
Oh they are so good.
So refreshing and with such a unique taste and texture and crispness to them.
Follow that with some of the tom yum broth and a shallot.
Mmm.
Oh.
It's nice and sour, it's a little bit salty and you can just taste all of that lemongrass
and the chilies in there and the garlic.
Let me scoot aside this pile of goodies and, fish out one of the fish.
And then you can just kind of, what I like to do is just put my spoon on the end of the
tail here, and just kind of slide my spoon down, and you can get pretty much the entire
fillet of mackerel.
Ohh that's hot.
Off like that though.
Buttery piece of mackerel.
Ok perfect.
I just love mackerel, it's such a wonderful flavorful fish.
It's a little bit buttery and creamy and I especially love it in tom yum because it's
it takes on the flavor of the lemongrass and the lime juice and the fish sauce.
But I could just not pass up the opportunity to eat a final home cooked meal at home before
going on this trip.
Fufu, fufu bye bye.
Bye bye.
Doesn't he look like a sheep Ying?
Is that a real dog or is that a sheep?
Man mee ma kwa, mun bear.
Fufu sia jai.
Fufu sia jai no?
Ying are you going to miss Fufu?
Ohhhh.
Ok bye!
We have about two and a half or two hours and forty five minutes until our flight leaves,
hopefully the traffic won't be too bad.
The airport seems to be pretty quiet at this time now.
It is about seven pm.
Kob kun krub.
Check in then customs and immigration and security was a breeze tonight.
Namaste.
The reason that getting through customs and immigration and checking in to our flight
was so easy is because that we are flying on business class, and actually we're not
just flying on business class for this flight, but for this entire round the world trip with
Star Alliance, so Ying and I are both not only thrilled about the trip about the world
for food, but also about flying this entire trip.
I can sleep here.
Ying have you ever had this much leg space on an airplane?
Thank you very much.
We are about to take off.
Thank you.
It is time now for pre-dinner snacks.
I'll start with the roasted almonds.
One of the most important things to know about eating in India is that there's veg and there's
non-veg, and veg of course means vegetarian, but non-veg usually means any kind of meat,
or any kind of meat protein.
So I got non-veg.
There's a little bit of turbulence right now so it's kind of shaky probably the camera
is shaking a little bit.
But this sells really really good.
I got the prawns curry, and I was expecting some little prawns but these are huge prawns
and you can really smell.
Oh yah, that's exactly what I smell right there, the spice, that's cardamom.
I got to go in for a roti right now or a chapati, I think this is a chapati actually.
Oh this smells so good.
I was just going to grab some sauce but I may as well go in for a whole prawn.
Mmmmmm.
That's pretty good.
I was so excited to start digging in to the prawns curry that I forgot to even unravel
my napkin.
I should probably put this onto my lap.
It's actually pretty wonderful.
The curry is not even oily at all, you can just taste all of that spice, the cardamom
in there, maybe some cumin and then yah it's really not oily or too buttery at all.
Oh I think it's daal.
I think this is daal makhani, which is the black lentils.
I just spilled all over my chin.
Mmmm.
That's wonderful.
You can taste the cumin in there and then that is kind of buttery.
Welcome to Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai.
The local time is thirty minutes past eleven in the evening, and the temperature is twenty
seven degrees celcius.
Thank you.
Yes!
Oh, welcome to Mumbai.
That was a great flight, and I'm happy to be in India.
Ok bye bye.
Bye, nice to meet you.
As soon as you pass through customs then there is a prepaid taxi stand and so you can prepay
your taxi and then you choose either AC or non AC and we are on our way to an area called
Colaba which is kind of the south part of Mumbai.
Thank you, thank you.
It's about two am, we just checked into our hotel which is called the Gordon House Hotel
right in the Colaba area in Mumbai.
We're going to be staying here for four nights and we'll be in Mumbai for a total of four
about four full days which is not as long as I would like, but we're going to be trying
to cram in as much food and sightseeing as possible during our time here.
So stay tuned for this whole series, many delicious food vlogs coming up I'm anticipating
and this is going to be a lot of fun.
Thank you all for watching.
Please remember to give this video a thumbs up and also make sure you subscribe if you're
not already subscribed so you don't miss the next video, and yah, I will see you tomorrow
is going to be our first real day in Mumbai.
And I am already loving how much leg space there is on this seat.
What do I have on my sock?
Is that like a little, it looks like a fish scale.
Ani arai krub?
Light.
Oh that's a light.
I thought that was a, I thought this was a microphone.