00:09:00 John Daub: Good morning, everybody. Greetings from Hong Kong International Airport, Terminal 1, Gates 20 to infinity. Because it looks like it goes to infinity. How you doing? We woke up at 5 in the morning and got here just before 7 with the Airport Express. Hong Kong's Airport Express is amazing. It got us here in 30 minutes. There's Wi-Fi on the Airport Express. I've been to this airport a half dozen times. Every time has been really good. I usually sit up there and have breakfast or lunch, or if I'm waiting for a plane right up there above Gates 15 and 19. I have a table staked out. Kanae Daub's there holding it. And we're going to go get some breakfast.

01:05:00 John Daub: Hey, good morning. I see everybody's getting a notification coming online. Kanae Daub and I have been on a trip now for the last almost four weeks exploring the world. Because it's the end of the year, we wanted to make this time to go home to visit family. But we took the long way, which included Tokyo to Sri Lanka, then to India, then to Dubai, to Munich, Paris, Iceland, New York. We went to Montreal, and then we left from New York to Hong Kong, which is Cathay Pacific. Eventually to Haneda today. Our flight's delayed. I got a little bit of time. I hope you're hungry because there's some restaurants up here. We're going to try some Hong Kong food, which is really good. Now, there's so many different shops here. And I love the architecture of Hong Kong airport. Let's go take a look at it from above. By the way, the Wi-Fi is incredibly fast, like 100 megabits upload, 75 download.

02:26:00 John Daub: All right. First, let's just go this way. I'm not going to get the food this direction because it's non-Hong Kong food. But let's take a look at Hong Kong Japan, McDonald's in Hong Kong and see if it's any different. Well, they got Burger King here. I wonder if that's any different too. All right. Here's the McDonald's. And I know for a lot of North American people, this is the best place to eat. For the Americans watching, McDonald's is like a staple. Doesn't really change anywhere. However, in Hong Kong, it's a little bit different. The jumbo breakfast, Skippy peanut butter? That doesn't make any sense. Are they collaborating or what? And milk on pancakes. I've never seen that before. This is McDonald's. Sausage and eggs, grilled biscuits, and it's all on noodles and rice. They also have McDonald's wonton soup. The menu is very local here. It smells different too. All right. I'm not getting McDonald's. I didn't come here for that.

05:00:00 John Daub: Good morning, Jim. Here's a little something. Thank you for buying breakfast, Jim. I appreciate it. Hope you're doing well over there. And I wish I could come to the West Coast and say hi next time. Kanae and I are having lots of different kinds of plans like driving across country, things like that. The Halifax to Vancouver drive was pretty fun. There'll be a Montreal meetup. Of course, there's a Disney store and a lot of other shops. There is a Hong Kong Disneyland, everybody. I think if you don't know that, this sign will remind you. There's the double-decker Hong Kong trolleys that go around Hong Kong Island.

05:59:00 John Daub: All right. Let's go get some food. You got to go on the other side. You order it with a number and then they give you a number and you order the number. Then they give you another number and you wait for it after you pay. Usually they do it pretty fast. Then you can go and eat it. The McDonald's line is massive. Hi, Kanae Daub. We're not going to get too close. It's morning. You want to eat something more? Yeah, I can eat. All right. I've reserved this. This is where I usually sit and I don't want to reserve it too long. This is the view from the second floor. I love this view looking to infinity. On the left and right are the planes, the gates, Cathay Pacific on the right side. You can see some other airlines. We're flying Cathay Pacific. It's quite an amazing view from up here.

07:10:00 John Daub: Now, there used to be a dim sum restaurant up here, but it's been changed to a Thai restaurant and Google Maps didn't pick that up. So I'm a little bit disappointed, but there's some other local foods that we're going to get a chance to try. And even if you missed these restaurants here, down there going towards the gates, lots and lots of cafes and little restaurants and shops where you can buy souvenirs. The shops as well. And on the left and right of Terminal 1, you can find duty-free stuff all down there on the first and second floor. There's also some Hong Kong t-shirts and gifts like that. But this is one of the most beautiful airports. I still think Mumbai in India was the most beautiful that we went to. High ceilings, wide. I wish we'd do this in the US more. It makes you feel like Hong Kong is the place. It's a hub.

08:12:00 John Daub: Alright, full disclosure, we already ate noodles. And then I said, you know, the Wi-Fi is really fast. Let's just do a live stream here. Alright, this is the place I'm talking about. The place they get dumplings went out of business and they're opening up this Thai Express, Moon Thai Express. But they're selling dumplings. These places look really good. This one is called Phu Thien, and they say they have a Michelin star. Everyone claims Michelin star in Hong Kong. Breakfast in Hong Kong is basically this: porridge with rice in it. It's really good and it's soft on the stomach. Oh, this looks so good too, the fried bun with seaweed soup. Fish balls with mixed noodles. And then there's laksa (spicy coconut noodle soup). We had noodles already. Once again, this place since 2000, they say it's a moon star. Phu Thien was established in Singapore. Okay, but this one has a line. So we're going to go over there and the kitchen is always busy. So let's just go over here and order something. They're usually pretty fast.

10:12:00 John Daub: That looks really good. 70.6. I'm watching what everyone else is ordering. Stir-fried noodles with soy sauce. Looks good too. Pork and bean sprouts. This is 118. I actually ordered this one before and it was really good. Rice noodles filled with barbecued pork. It was so good before. That was 40.5. And then this one is pork meatballs. I think I know what I'm going to get. You can pay by credit card, by the way. They have Tsingtao beer.

11:46:00 Kanae Daub: Hello.

11:48:00 John Daub: See here. Oh, one of these. You want to get the noodles?

11:53:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

11:56:00 John Daub: No beef?

12:00:00 Kanae Daub: No.

12:03:00 John Daub: What was the big rice noodles that I saw before?

12:09:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, the big ones. They have. Not yet.

12:15:00 John Daub: I'll have to try the 408. Yeah, 408. And the, um, see here. Uh, 981. After 10 a.m. Okay. We'll try the. Wow. 705. 705. Okay. That's all.

13:17:00 John Daub: Thank you. All right. So, I have here a number. I like the way they do it. See this number here? 3036. They're going to call the number up here on the board. So, when you see 3036, that means I can take Kanae her breakfast. And they work so fast. When we ate breakfast here about 30 minutes ago, it came out so fast. Look at all these trays here. The orders are coming in quick. And boom, boom, boom. Everything just gets put on the plates. The numbers get popped up. Hers is 4054. Came up fast. And if you look in the kitchen, you can't see beyond that wall and that little teeny hole. These guys are trucking, man. There's some people really moving fast in there. Oh, I wish I had that. Hey, now. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, I'm not even sure what I ordered. A lot of this stuff is not available until the afternoon that I wanted to order. But I think Kanae and I both had shrimp wonton noodles before. Keep looking for our number, okay? 3036. 167 Hong Kong dollars. That's like, can somebody Google that? It's about $21 USD. I should have gotten the barbecue pork noodles.

16:03:00 John Daub: I think it's coming. I can smell it. It's so good. I'm just going to move up and just show you guys what's on these plates here. It's breakfast in Hong Kong. Hey, lady, move out of the way. That's what we get for $21. Oh, I should have gotten a coffee. Look how fast it comes out. Just boom, boom, boom. You're getting it really fast. And then people come and pick it up. They mark it off. It just makes sense. That's our number. We're in Hong Kong today. Everyone's eating breakfast any minute now. Oh, look at that. She's making the wontons here. They're boiling it in a thing there. This is the wontons for the soup. That's what I wanted. What are those things? That looks so good. Oh, that's mine. Thank you. Whoa. That's a lot. I can't carry this. Oh my gosh. This is too much. How do you carry this? If I drop this, it's live. Ha ha ha. I got another 100 meters to go. I think if I was Carl Lewis, I could do this in like nine seconds. Oh, that looks so good. I can't believe it's $21 though.

19:32:00 John Daub: Kanae took my stuff up? We love this place. All right, guys, we're back on. So there's a little bit of a lag when you move around the airport. This is, I think, number 705. But essentially, okay, it comes with this sauce. This is for this. And this is number 207. I can't remember, but this looks so good. Can somebody tell me what we're eating here? This looks like glutinous rice covered in a deep fried something. Deep fried bread. We're going to try that. And then this looks like vegetables sauteed and then put over lo mein. Let's try the burrito first. Oh, Kanae? They didn't give you chopsticks.

20:53:00 Kanae Daub: Say, okay, we're not allowed to film.

21:01:00 John Daub: Can I close up from a distance? We can close it from a distance. She didn't put makeup on today. I shouldn't have said that. Sorry. All right, here we go. Let's try this. Wow, this does look really good. A steamed vermicelli roll. Thanks, Fritz. I'm going to try this here. I've got it on a tripod now. Really good. This is really good. It's like it tastes like deep fried bread wrapped in a noodle. Yeah, you need the sauce on it. Oh, man. It's really good. And this one is the one we wanted to get before, but we ate noodles instead. This is good, right?

23:10:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

23:18:00 John Daub: We don't want to get cold. Whoa. This smells so good. Let's try this. I think it's pretty happy eating here at the Hong Kong International Airport.

23:32:00 Kanae Daub: Good? Yeah. Good. It's really good.

23:52:00 John Daub: I like the vegetables. Thank you, Jim. Anil, thank you. Hey, how was the Ritter Sport and Filipino snacks that I gave you? We didn't get to the snacks. I've actually checked it in. But the Ritter Sport and Filipino snacks are really good. It's a very large coconut chocolate that you gave us. So good. And so were the Hershey's chocolates that came from our friends from Hershey, Pennsylvania. We had a lot of chocolate on a 16-hour flight. Kind of sustained us.

25:05:00 John Daub: Chopsticks are longer than Japanese chopsticks. Hong Kong chopsticks are longer. And the tip to using chopsticks: I do have to cut my fingernails. I see this bottom chopstick. I kind of wedge it between there. I push some pressure here so it doesn't move. This one never moves. And this one you hold like a pencil. And if you can get the point, the higher up you go, the easier it becomes to pick stuff up. The lower you are, the harder it is. So there you go. That's chopstick skills. Kanae doesn't want to get a close up. That's okay. You can. I have to be considerate. I got in a little bit of trouble at JFK. I filmed her sleeping.

26:15:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Were you angry?

26:16:00 John Daub: Maybe a little angry.

26:20:00 Kanae Daub: Okay. She's a little bit angry. Because I didn't know that I was sleeping a lot.

26:26:00 John Daub: That's why it's funny.

26:28:00 Kanae Daub: It's not funny for everybody. It's funny for only you.

26:33:00 John Daub: You're right. So that's why. I was frightened.

26:38:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Oh, I got it. I shocked her like, what? There's a camera?

26:47:00 John Daub: You got caught up in camera and she freaked out. That's the end of the New York JFK episode.

26:52:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know anything. Then suddenly you're next. That's me. It's a camera. Yeah. It surprised.

27:11:00 John Daub: I've been apologizing so many times on the plane. It was a 16-hour plane ride to Hong Kong. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry, honey. Okay, the great thing about being married is that when you make a mistake you can say that you're an idiot and then you give your wife all the credit for being smart and you can kind of balance these things out. I'm not genius.

27:44:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, you are. Why? You're smarter than me.

27:55:00 John Daub: I don't think so. Would you film me sleeping? No. She's smarter than me.

28:07:00 John Daub: So now that we have Kanae here but we're not going to focus on her. Okay, how far should I go? Right here. Okay, you can see your bag and that other person. So how did you have a fun trip?

28:23:00 Kanae Daub: Can you? Yes. Some Japanese. Yeah. No, no fighting. Okay. Yeah, love and peace. Love and peace always. Love and peace. Yeah, I did. What did you like the best? Sri Lanka, India, Munich, Montreal. I like all places because every country are different, many good points and different culture. But for me this time especially Munich. Yeah, because I saw very beautiful Christmas market there. Yeah, I surprised.

29:25:00 John Daub: What are you doing? Oh, move the tray closer. You want to focus on food? No, it's somebody said move the tray closer to Kanae. All right, smart move. So you like, um, it's hard. Now I'm gonna spill it. This is a pretty nice airport. What do you think of, um, what was the best airport?

29:48:00 Kanae Daub: Best airport. It's good question. My answer is Bombay, Mumbai. Yeah, that's the newest airport that we visited in this trip. Yeah, um, it's amazing. It's like, I don't know, it's like gold. It's just so beautiful and it's like the Taj Mahal of airports. Modern building.

30:29:00 John Daub: Can I do it like this? She's not so close. The thing is like I'm okay to be this close. It's not that good at, it's like 6 in the morning or something, right? Yeah. My face is kind of sleepy. Happy wife, happy life is annoying to hear. Marriage is a two-way relationship. This is Bridget. I got a lot of advice from people when I did the live stream in April about this, so a lot of that advice has really helped. Thank you. Always move the tray closer to your wife. It's good.

31:10:00 Kanae Daub: Can you eat all? Did you put this sauce in there?

31:13:00 John Daub: I like this sauce. This sauce is, what is it? Shoyu?

31:18:00 Kanae Daub: No, oyster.

31:19:00 John Daub: Oyster sauce? I don't know. I'm gonna spill this on me. Okay. It's like shoyu. I don't know.

31:40:00 Kanae Daub: Is it oyster?

31:42:00 John Daub: Chris Hansen writes in, I could see your wife as an anime cartoon character. I could see the Kanae, and she spells her name K-A-N-A-E, right? But when we were in New York everybody pronounced her name Kan-eye. She was like, what? Was your name wrong? Even the Starbucks lady. Cafe latte for Kanae. And then you, you didn't realize right away. Took you a minute before. This cost 21,500 yen. This is more expensive than in Tokyo.

32:17:00 Kanae Daub: Can I? Yeah. Can I. But not A-I-A-E. This is the biggest problem. In Tokyo, Kanae. Kanae. And then you didn't realize. Rado. It took you a minute before.

32:32:00 John Daub: The toughest part with her name is it's not Kana-i, it's Kana-e. Because the E sound, it goes e in Japanese. Kana-e. But Kana-i is okay too, right? Kana-i. She's not looking at me. Kana-e. No, she's looking at me. So I'm not hungry anymore, but I don't want to waste this. Kana-i, do you want to eat this?

33:04:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I can eat all.

33:06:00 John Daub: Okay. Eat this. I'm going to take you downstairs to the gate, and then we're going to end the live stream. Show you a little bit of the shops. She wants to go shopping before we get on the flight.

33:13:00 Kanae Daub: I want to buy popcorn.

33:18:00 John Daub: Mmm. Which we ate on the airplane. Yum. Oh. It was so good. I want to show you this. Somebody knows that? Popcorn? I want to ask. I got some. This might not be... Kana-i, this isn't even made in Hong Kong or Japan. I just realized it. It's not from Japan.

33:42:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Shout out to Lenny. Thank you, Lenny.

33:46:00 John Daub: Say thank you, Lenny.

33:48:00 Kanae Daub: Thank you, Lenny. Thank you.

33:52:00 John Daub: Big shout out to Lenny there. This is the popcorn she's talking about. If you're Cathay Pacific, just turn off the volume right now. I don't want to tell you about it, but Kana-e ate like 20 of these. She just stole it. You didn't steal it, but they... Yeah, you ate like 20 of them.

34:09:00 Kanae Daub: No, no, no. How many bags? Not 20. How many?

34:15:00 John Daub: One, two, three, four... You ate at least five.

34:18:00 Kanae Daub: No. Don't tell a lie to them.

34:21:00 John Daub: Okay, I'm not telling lies, but... Look, it was like 10. And I have one here, and I ate three. This is it here. This was available to anybody who went to the restroom, and they just put it out. Just take some. And yeah, this is really, really good. It's salted caramel popcorn from Joe & Seph's. So thank you, Cathay Pacific. We thought that the food was amazing, and the service was really great on Cathay Pacific. And we had a great 16 and a half hour flight. And here's the one thing that was most amazing about this flight. It was the longest flight I've ever been on. New York to Hong Kong is pretty tough. The flight went over the North Pole. Literally it did not go across the Pacific or the US. The flight went straight up past Boston, right up to Canada and across the North Pole and then down again. I did not expect that flight plan.

35:42:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I have the picture. Yeah.

35:45:00 John Daub: I'm going to show everybody. It's very interesting. I know. It's really interesting. Every time I look outside and I'm going over Canada, like the North part, if we leave from New York to Tokyo, we don't go all the way up to the North Pole. We kind of go up over the North of Alaska and come out. And I always look outside the window trying to look for people to rescue. I don't know if someone has one of those mirrors that will flash the airplane. I want to be that guy rescues them. Oh, this is their flight plan. Can you see it? It goes right over the North Pole. It's amazing. It comes down the other side into Hong Kong. It does not even go through the Pacific. You might not have ever seen the globe from this angle either, from the top. It was awesome. And the captain should have gotten on speaker. Just a shout out: We're going over the North Pole. Did not see Santa Claus. I guess when Christmas is finished, he clears out and he goes down to the Caribbean or something for a vacation. I didn't see any workshop elves. I was looking, but I did not see a workshop and I didn't know exactly when I went over the North Pole. But if I had, I would have looked. Maybe that's why the captain did not tell us that we were going directly over the North Pole.

37:43:00 John Daub: You still have Christmas music going on in Hong Kong. I love that. Hong Kong never changes. Are you done?

37:52:00 Kanae Daub: I like both. These sauces are good.

37:59:00 John Daub: I'm going to take you now for five minutes and look at the shops. And then I'm going to give Kanae a chance. Let's go shopping ourselves.

38:39:00 John Daub: Let's go for a trip. Don't go, John. I'm not gone yet. I wanted to show you a little bit of the Hong Kong airport for those that are joining us right now. This might be my sixth or seventh time. When I first came to Hong Kong they had old airports. When this new one opened I just was amazed. To me it's just amazing to look at the roof of it. This is what I think a spaceship would look like. This is the future. There's an information center in the middle and we're coming from the restaurants. We're turning left now just going to show you some of the shops. A lot of height, big name brands. Tiffany & Co. over here. To my right is Chanel. Oh wow, that's a lot of space. And I'm going to show you some of the shops here in Hong Kong. That was an awesome breakfast. Hope you know it's a three and a half hour to Tokyo. Cartier. This could be Ginza. There's more shopping, more eateries upstairs. Burberry. But my brand is like Uniqlo and L.L. Bean, that's about it.

40:19:00 John Daub: Beef and Liberty, two words I never thought I'd see together. Sounds like an American restaurant. Oh, I should make sure flights leave on time. Um, so a flight was delayed. Oh, where is it? Do you guys see it? To Tokyo 9:10. Yeah, oh no, this is Narita. We're going to Haneda. Tokyo Haneda, CX504. No, that's the Narita. We're going to Haneda. Where's the Haneda? Oh there it is. It was delayed till 9:10. To know because I was not ready for that. I wanted to show you some Hong Kong t-shirts or something. Where's all the local stuff? Honestly, airport should have at least 20 local stores in here and get rid of all of these chains. I know it's because of the rent is high, but I would like to see more local stuff here. Would you? Yeah, we didn't do any meetups in Hong Kong and we're doing so many meetups. People all over the world are asking for more meetups. And I have to give a shout out to Houston, Texas because they're really vocal, and Detroit as well for me to come and meet up. Look at this, these look good too. These are like, I love the tins that they come in. This is from the Peninsula Hotel, walnut cookies from the Peninsula. But we have the Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo in Ginza. It's good. It's a good place if you want to get a $30 drink. That taxi cab inside, that's awesome.

42:49:00 John Daub: Wow, it's neat to explore new airports. Fat finger the last one. Hey Mike, thank you very much. Let's see what else they got here. In Japan we always have these gift boxes representing local areas and the foods from there. And this is the Hong Kong ones. A lot of pastries and cookies. They do a good job with the presentation. I think they're selling to Japanese because we have these beautiful boxes as well in our gift boxes. And we usually give food. You know, we usually give food to people in Japan. And the reason why is because you don't want to give people something that's going to take up so much space in the house. Food you eat it, you enjoy it and it's gone. And I think that's one reason when you go to Japan you'll see so many little snacks and foods, and in the U.S. you don't see that as much.

44:01:00 John Daub: This is a good place to end where Gate number one is. And we came, there's been a haze that comes over the city in the afternoon and it kind of never went away. I guess that's Victoria Peak in the distance behind us maybe. But it comes from mainland China and the factories, and a haze will come from there and it just engulfs the city and makes it look so mysterious, like pea soup we would in Victorian England when the factories in the Industrial Revolution had soot all over the place. Now there's no soot but it is kind of dreary looking, mysterious, spooky. There's lots of different ways to look at it. I'm trying to find something that's Hong Kongish. I see a Michael Jordan, that's pretty cool. Ultraman, this is all Japanese stuff. All right, let's go back to the window here. You can take a look at Hong Kong airport. LA smog, Mark V writes in. Yeah, it's just smog but it's not good smog. They didn't have smog in Hong Kong before that I remember. It's usually pretty clear but it's gotten worse over the years. Cathay Pacific is the airline that we're taking to go back to Tokyo. You can see it's a pretty well done airport. It just goes around forever and on the right side you can see that hall that goes on forever. That's what I was talking about.

46:00:00 John Daub: Hey Jim, actually Kanae has been dying to get some ramen and get some food. If we are still hungry by the time we get to Tokyo I might do a live stream and just talk about this, the foods that we missed from Japan and get something in Haneda. I'm not sure, just depends on when we return. But thank you for that, we'll put that to good use for sure. And Carolyn, I did actually look for Jackie Chan yesterday. I saw him at a woman's restaurant, he had a gift card but I didn't know. Secretary of State smells weird. I've been searching. I was walking around the streets just to see if I could see him but I found his handprints in the wall of the Avenue of Stars. But it was a garden. I was just kind of bummed out because Bruce Lee statue was closed. It was wrapped. It was actually really sad to see. And I put a picture of it on Instagram and when you see it, they literally wrapped him in plastic and then put him back in his spot and it's a travesty. Cuz I think Bruce Lee deserved better than a plastic wrap. Someone should go down there and just open him up and give him some air holes or something for crying out loud. It was really disappointing but also kind of funny.

47:14:00 John Daub: Alright guys. Thanks again for watching this livestream. I'm gonna go back to Kanae, we're gonna do some shopping before we leave. But an amazing trip that we've had. We're gonna talk about it tomorrow, go over some of the stuff. Kanae's got to do her makeup and I have to be more considerate. And that's just the way things are. But we got a lot to talk about and the good thing is for a lot of the people that were waiting for more live streams from Japan, you're gonna get that now cuz guess what, we're going back to Japan. Yay. It's gonna be a lot easier for me to do live streams. Look at that. They see, look, they have Royce chocolate. This is from Hokkaido. There's such an affinity between Hong Kong and Japan. This is my favorite gift from Japan there, they're chocolate covered potato chips, and so darn good. You can get them in Tokyo in New York City as well, but it's just so expensive. It's funny to see them here. Thanks again, everybody. Yeah, I'll see you in Japan the other Sunday. Maybe we'll do live stream in a couple of hours just depends how hungry we are because if they feed us again on Cathay Pacific, I think it's gonna be game over. But we're dying for some good Japanese food because it's been almost a month. And when Japanese travel and they don't have miso soup and white rice from mmm, they start to go a little bit crazy. So I'm kind of really looking forward to that. I'll see you on the other side from Japan. Thanks everybody. Gate 67 right this way.