Underrated lobster roll from Pauli's @ North End, Boston

Pauli's is a small shop located in North End, Boston offering reasonable priced subs, wraps, Italian food and lobster roll. They also cater for takeout, delivery and catering. For the local, this shop is quite famous for its lobster roll. If not because for my walking tour guide told me that this shop has among the best lobster roll in town, I might have waiting in the queue at Neptune Oyster next door. If you lookout for Pauli's in the Internet, you can hardly find any article which would rate them to have among the best lobster roll. Neptune Oyster often rated at no 1 for its lobster roll but the queue to have food in this restaurant is forever long. Pauli's environment was rather different. Not many patrons in their shop and I can have my lobster roll within 5 minutes. Amazingly the fast lobster roll which I get from Pauli's, was superb.

Taste:10/10(Excellent. Upon my first bite of the lobster roll was a burst of flavor with smooth and warm butter coating the delicate lobster meat. The huge portion of lobster meat suits very well with soft bread roll. The lobster meat were full of flavour. Well coated with butter with slight salty taste provided a perfect balance to the natural flavors of the lobster. The potato chips provided also complemented the meal very well. Simple but amazingly delicious).
Price:3/10(Expensive. The hot lobster roll priced at USD18.99 with chips. For cold version of lobster roll, its sold at USD16.99).


The packaging was not impressive. Lobster roll with packed potato chips.


Wow, the smell and taste very good. Well and lightly coated with butter. Fresh red lobster colour.

Looks small but you will satisfied with the portion and taste.


Simple shop but huge variety of food options.

Variety of kettle cook potato chips.

Pauli's featured in The Boston Globe.

Pauli's (Wicked fresh, Crazy good).

GPS/Coordinate: 42.363312, -71.055977
Address: 65 Salem St, Boston, MA 02113, United States
Public transport: Haymarket station via light rail/subway-orange line/bus.

Famous New York burger - Shake Shack @ Grand Central Terminal, New York

Shake Shack established in 2004 in New York, now is quite a popular burger joint especially in New York. Started as food cart inside Madison Square Park and now they have 66 branches all over the world. Do watch out for this brand as they are expanding very fast and their cheese burgers often consistently well reviewed. Their burger quality is even better than In-N-Out and McDonalds. Shake Shack also famous for their milk shakes and that's why there are "shake" on the brand name.

Taste:8/10(Good. The burger meat is tender and flavourful. The cheese were melt in your mouth kind of feeling. The burger was cooked medium rare by default unless otherwise requested).
Price:7/10(Moderate. The burger pricing at USD5.19 is reasonable in New York).


Shake Shack has the largest crowd from all the food shop in lower level dining concourse of Grand Central Terminal.

Fast casual option. The service were fast and they have variety in their menu. They even have beer, wine, milk shakes and hot dog in their menu.

I can still walk around while waiting for my burger to ready.

Shake Shack cheese burger. Their burger is claimed to be made from 100% all natural Angus beef. No hormones and antibiotics.

Shake Shack.

Enjoying beautiful Grand Central Terminal after the meal.

GPS/Coordinate: 40.752556, -73.977146
Address: Lower Level Dining Concourse, 49 Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY 10017, United States
Public transport: Grand Central Terminal subway station.

Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo on All Nippon Airways (ANA) economy class

ANA begins their new daily flights to Kuala Lumpur from Narita Tokyo starting 1st Sep 2015. I am quite excited to be the earlier batch to try the service on this flight. After having great experience on their Tokyo to Los Angeles route in June 2015, I am eager to try out this flight from my home country. The flight departed at 7.00am and reached Narita at around 3.00pm. The flight time were designed to be able to connect to all ANA flights flying on America route within the same day. I am quite satisfied with the flight as the aircraft used were new Boeing 787. I can feel the air in the cabin were less dry when compared to the Boeing 777 aircraft which I usually take to Tokyo. However, the seat on this flight were smaller and less comfortable. The food provided were under expectation.

Rating:6/10


Inside ANA Boeing 787


The seat was small and cramped.

Breakfast meal set. Porridge and noodles. They also provide a bottle of Yakult.

The porridge were normal and plain.

Good soba noodles.


The chocolate puff which taste bad. Dry and hardened chocolate filling. I am expecting something better.



Boeing 787 does have great technology on their windows. Dimming window that can be adjusted to let in various amounts of light.The dimming effect is the result of an electrified gel sandwiched between two thin pieces of glass. As the electric current increases, the gel darkens and as it drops, the gel lightens.

Arriving Narita. Time to quickly get out from the plane to catch my connecting flight.