I Wasted $5000!! Flying EVA From Chicago to Taipei!! 

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I love how Sonny literally gets more and more powered up the further into asia he goes

I have flown EVA from NY to Manila with stopover in Taipei about 20 times in evergreen Deluxe or Business class & never had a problem, every flight was on time or early, the staff was outstanding & food was FAR better than on any US carrier. The lounge in Taipei is great, large with lots of comfortable seating, good variety of drinks, alcoholic & non & decent variety of food. I have made this same trip on Delta & it can not compare, also have made trip on Philippine Airlines, it was better than Delta but far from EVA..

I've flown with EVA from London to Bangkok in economy / coach. It was fairly basic but the staff were lovely and the asian options for food were excellent. Asian food works way better than western on a plane in a pressurised cabin. It actually has flavour! I'd happily fly with them again

Wow, hope you had a great time in PR (I've lived here for 5y). Looking forward to the video. Eva is great -- since CX has gotten so expensive, most of my HK friends fly Eva and connect in Taipei now.

This really could be 2 separate series’. One for airline/airline food review, and the other for airport/airport food (and not just the lounge but, all of the airport food that is unique to that airport/city/country) review.

Love your natural comments. Good editing on the sandwitch too😂 Keep your brand,Sonny

Also surprised that Sonny didn't recognize the wrapped pasta dish is a Cheong Fun. It is very common in many parts of Asia including Vietnam and can come with a variety, or no, fillings.

I have to comment because you made the mistake that many new business travelers make: you went to the lounge the staff told you to go to instead of the lounge you have access to. You could have accessed the Polaris Lounge because Eva Airlines is Star Alliance carrier and you are flying star alliance long haul. The Polaris Lounges are probably the best domestic business class lounge in the USA.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm sitting next to Sonny trying to get some rest and I have to listen to him talk about food the whole time

The fact that we get free food & travel videos from Sonny on RU-vid is priceless; keeping the knowledge and entertainment alive.. 👏👏👏👏👏

When you threw a fit on the airplane, the guy behind you was like...what the? ... LOL So funny. Happy thanksgiving Sunny!

As a fan of his show, this is how I would sum up his food preferences in a few words: Sonny is super fond of juicy meat and has a peculiar distaste for fresh cucumber. He must be born that way.

Love you Sonny❤ your humor 😅😅 Glad you made it safe. But the lounges were pitiful...lol😊

Sonny is getting a little spoiled, i am used to sitting hours and hours on a hard bench at airports. Are there lounges everywhere? I am baffled

That flight seemed really cosy! I'd happily fly that long if I got served food like that, comfy seat an TV to watch 😂 x

Totally agree with Sonny about the food gets better when you get closer to Asia LOL!

No worries brother, once you get to Taipei it will blow your mind. My bucket list destination for street food

The hot dog segment just kept getting funnier and funnier lol

I love when sonny wastes money so we don't have to

Respect for Sonnys honesty ❤

11:50 Your about to get some fizzpoppers from that Frobscottle! lololool

I live in Illinois, and that lounge sums us up in so many ways. Boring decor, boring and stale food, and just overall dreary. At the University of Illinois basketball games, they have these "high end" areas that you can pay and exorbitant price for, and they are exactly like that lounge. In other words, rich people in Illinois have no taste and they don't know better. Because they're from Illinois.

I havent flown EVA in about 25 years but it's nice to see that the quality and service are still great.

i was at the eva air lounge in taipei a week ago its called garden or something idk and i was really impressed. they had a diy beef noodle station, hagen daaz self serve and some dimsum so it was pretty decent. i was there at night though so im assuming the congee station gets switched out for the beef noodle

That beat drop build at 12:15 was fire! You gotta pay your editors more Sonnyboy.

Unbelievable! You're back to Taipei again. Looking forward to seeing you. Cheers!

I always fly Chi-Taipei-BKK via EVA air. I also purposely book the EVA Hello Kitty Plane.😂

*Love the Mark Wiens face at **12:18* 😂

man I was hoping you would get on the hello Kitty wrapped Eva airplane. Literally in the plane the utensils were hello Kitty, the blankets, cups, pillows and bathroom decor 😂. It was the best experience I’ve ever had flying from San Francisco to Taipei and then Taipei to Manila.

I love to fly business class with Emirates on the A380 the stand up bar and service is amazing. My favorite longe is Dubai's business class B lounge it's huge has what ever you want and for me the smoking lounge it's open and huge, a nice way to relax between flights.

The jadedness is creeping slowly into this man’s views

Only Sonny can make reviewing sad airport lounge food hilarious and entertaining while still being as quiet and respectful as possible to the other guests!!

I just love learning from his simple to understand videos ... I respect this man immensely. 👍👍👍

Thank you for visiting Puerto Rico. I am Puerto Rican and it’s so amazing that people go to our island and experience all the different cultures we have.

I'm laughing hard when you say Good for the Italian salami sandwich 🤣

Those Swissport Lounge sandwiches said "Bri Inc" on the labels. So I looked up Bri Inc, who operate in Missouri, Kentucky and yes -- Illinois where O'Hare is: "BRI specializes in the application and service of fluid pumping and treatment equipment and serves as a regional distributor of rotating equipment."

Hey Sonny! At Chicago O'hare, you could've travelled to the B/C Gates and head to the United Polaris Lounge (as you have EVA Royal Laurel Class ticket), but overall, great video! Happy to see you back in Vietnam.

A hot with mayo only is honestly one of the most disturbing things I've seen Sonny eat.

Before the pandemic I flew a lot around the world for my company, business class fortunately. The very best airplane food and the very best lounges where always the Asian ones! Ma favorite lounges on this planet are in Beijing China and Incheon/Seoul South Korea! The nicest flight I had was with a smaller Chinese airline called Hainan Airlines. It was a 10 hour direct flight to Beijing in a small airbus a330. The special thing about that plane was that it’s a pure business class jet. No eco seats on that flight. Because of that the personal as extra good and food perfect since they could use the whole storage for premium stuff. It was better than my business class experiences with Emirates and Lufthansa. Also the flight was only 1500 bucks, which is insanely cheap! My 11 hour Lufthansa flight to Incheon/seoul with Lufthansa was over 5000 and was worse!

With the mayo packet move, I know your my spirit animal 🐐

Sonny, have you ever thought about doing a confab video with a couple of survivalist RU-vidrs? I would ove to see you with the wooded beardsman , and Fowlers mischief and makery... You 3 are all in my top 5 favorite content experts

Isn't it lovely watching Sonny, great and not-so-great food, with all the laughs along the way? Smashing. 👍👍👍👍

The way you deliver these subtle jokes are hilarious!

Please more of these flight food reviews. 🎉🎉🎉

Sonny your charisma is off the charts 😂

The bite from that second roll. 😂

Love your videos! I recently flew Swiss Air business class from Boston to Zurich. The lounge food was so awful we went and ate at one of the places near the gates. Same returning Swiss lounge was almost as bad. Pre covid it was so much better. I ate at Guy Fieri in NYC it was awful! chain food

Same pods than on Sri Lankan flight I once did. Had the same feeling, that it felt 90's like 😀

The best food review podcast by far and always entertaining

Bro! I just flew on that airline back in February of this year for the lunar new years.....the flight was long but the staff/service were all around great

Getting g a bit spoilt there Sonny!😂 it’s hilarious though. Especially the Hello Kitty blanket part! 😅

I 've flown EVA a few times including just two months ago from San Francisco to Hong Kong through Taipei. Didn't get the business class treatment as was stuck in coach. I will take the coach EVA treatment over US carriers anyday as the food is much better even there. When I flew EVA back in the 90's when you would go to Taipei they wouldn't let out in the concourse during transit but keep you in a transit lounge similar to the one in Chicago in this visit. Main thing I remember about that was the food was probably worse than what Sonny got in Chicago and they kept the AC going at freezing temperatures.

Thank You for the Video and suffering through all that food and to top it off such a long flight with all those connections :)

You didn’t waste that money, you sat in comfort and had some privacy not to mention chef prepared food and unlimited good quality drinks

Thanks Sonny! Watching your awesome travels (so I don't have too!) is immensely pleasing. :) I've been to Russia with a stop in London once, but my palette just isn't daring like yours and Mr. Zimmerns. Russian food didn't speak to me. British food, it's a smorgasbord of side street nationalities. I enjoyed British Airlines way more than any American one. Even the Russian airlines, Aeroflot maybe, was pleasant. One of the steward's on the Russian liner looked just like Topher Grace and every time he spoke to me in Russian, it was surreal. 24 hours of flight from Dallas to my destination was interesting exactly 1 time. Love your channel!✈

will you be home for the holidays? The 43rd Hmong new year was November 25-26 at Saint Paul River center 2023. It gets as many as 40,000 visitors from all over. It might be a fun episode best ever food review show next year. Maybe a special hour long with other guest food reviewers that you have worked with.

Hey Sonny, not even sure if you are going to read this comment but me (German) and my wife (Taiwanese) would love to see you making a food tour through Taiwan! It’s a beautiful island with incredible food! I know you have been in Taipei several years ago but you barely scratched the tip of the iceberg of the food piramide😁 Nevertheless keep doing the work you do! We enjoy it anyways! Many regards from Germany!

how does your wife not lose it laughing while filming these 😭

Years ago my wife and I flew EVA from San Francisco to Bangkok (transiting Taipei). We had business class seats and food for a lot less than other airlines. It was a great experience.

Ur comments n review about that airport lounge was hilarious 🤣

Love watching all this video and happy you got to go puerto rico my lil island with alot of food every were specifically the lechon explosion of good food flavors recommend

putting mayo on a hotdog is nuts

Why have I never heard of Mayo on a hot dog lol. It's almost like a warm bologna sandwich 🤣

Hello Kitty pillow….and that goodie bag! Too funny.

It’s always fun to watch his episodes 100% thrilling

You guys got me there with "guest appearance" of Owen with his signature "Wooooowww"

the airline reviews might be my fave

Lounges in the US are generally depressing. Even the ‘exclusive’ lounges like Centurion lounges are probably underperforming almost every international lounge.

The content and editing, TOP TIER!

Making food taste good on a high altitude flight is like making food taste insane on the ground, cause at high altitudes the taste buds don't work properly on high altitude flights.

Looking forward to the PR episodes! You're catching up to your buddy Mark on travels. You two are _the_ vloggers now. And all hotdog buns should open from the top. Side splits always fall apart 😂. Mayo all day. With horseradish. Nom.

I’ve done this flight several times. You are spot on with your review. Next time check out some of the other lounges in Taipei as they have better food options.

im flying to the philippines vis business class on eva this december. Im so effing looking forward to spending time im that lounge.

10:00 I feel like they should have had the hot dogs at the Chicago lounge lol

Putting mayonnaise on a hotdog is questionable. Putting ONLY mayonnaise on a hotdog is insane.

Im glad that swissport lounge is so sad compared to my life.. 😂

I too am a fan of mayo on a regular hot dog. great vid again.

Sonny, you’re such a shining star, keep it up ... Wishing you continued success. 💖 यह इश्क है जनाब यहां पर इंसान निखरता भी कमाल है और बिखरता भी कमाल का है 💖

keep it coming , love your content!

Lmaoooo the dollar store of lounges😂😂😂

The beginning of the review is hilarious but wholesome lol. Sonny always entertaining NO MATTER WHAT 👍🏽

The women at @2.40 looked well chuffed @3.35 she looked in despair 😂the further the flight went on the food looked amazing

Sonny is so cool and funny, I love every review he does !!

We always fly EVA from Sea to Malaysia and never have any problems with EVA

We need more airline reviews Sonny!! Make it happen or hire me to do so 🙏🙏

Recently flew from BOM-CDG and the first meal served (“snack”?) was a 1/2 teaspoon of potato salad, a cold vanilla cupcake adjacent pastry sans frosting, a cold roll (no butter, nothing, just roll) and a mango yogurt. I’m pretty sure someone’s picky toddler chose the menu. This was for premium economy / business, who knows what the folks on the other side of the curtain were served. 😂

The Eva Star Alliance Gold lounge in Taipei is much better than whatever lounge you ended up in. :(

I get looked at super weird for wanting Mayo only on my hotdog! Thank you for making me feel not so alone 😂

Puerto Rico to Chicago: 5.5 hours Chicago to Taipei: 16 hours Taipei to Saigon: 3.5 hours Total flight time: 25 hours.....

I can't imagine being in a plane for over 10 hours, especially with my youngest son. Even though he's 9, he's also severely mentally disabled and is basically a 4-1/2 foot tall toddler. The last time my wife and I took the kids on a plane, our older boy was about 3 or 4 and the youngest was actually a toddler. They both did really well, but we had to sit in the terminal for like 3 hours and just swapped in and out babysitting while the other went to the bar. We were pretty buzzed by the time we got on the plane and made it into a big, drunken game. When we got on the plane, we realized our seats were NOT all together but managed to get my wife sitting with the boys while I traded seats with a stranger to be in the aisle about 3 rows away. The stranger that I swapped seats with got a handful of free booze from me, and we both cracked each other up during the flight because I kept running over to help my wife out. He was literally on the flight to go visit his disabled uncle who was on his last few days, so we bonded over the shared experiences. I also bought him basically one of every mixed cocktail drink that they'd serve us on the plane and noticed that everyone around us was waiting to see what drink looked good so that they could order one. It was wild. People in coach on 4-5 hour flights get DOWN, son. By the time we were descending, people within our 3 rows were high fiving and racing to the bathroom, including a couple on their mid 80s that was unable to stop cracking up the whole time. I figured that I shouldn't get on too many planes again because nothing is really going to top that experience. My dad picked us all up from the airport and was dumbfounded at the fact that I was hugging people at the baggage claim while my wife just laughed about it all. Then he realized I was pretty much HIM in his 20s since I was pretty smashed and making friends everywhere I went lmao

I'm so thrilled you went to Puerto Rico can't wait to see that episode.

He never fails to give us quality content ❤

Took EVA/Evergreen to Taiwan. Nice staff and pretty good food.

I'm from chicago and I cant even be mad at all the commentary on ohare. He so right for it XD

Prawn is the fancy way of saying shrimp

Living in Minnesota I do love to visit the big city of Chicago. I ride the Amtrak from Union Depot in Saint Paul. Also Chicago has a Xmas market german style.

Hi yes, uh I'd like the Italian sandwich with old dish sponge bread and extra despair please? 🤣

Bro. You had me, Right up to when you put Mayo, on your Dog. My Cousin used to coat his OREOs in Mayo. Now I don't even want to hear about the Mayo Clinic!

6:34 I'll take Chilean Sea Bass EVERY TIME