I also did my first MR from AUS-LAX-AUS for a double double with Fries (Animal Style, of course) too... point has been made a bit moot now that In-n-Out is opening in Texas

Back when I delivered RV's and trucks for a living in the winter and rode the Greyhound bus back (A dog that should be put to sleep), I always tried for a run from Indiana to Boston, just so I could go to South Station to the little stand that made cheesesteaks. They weighed about 4 pounds, dripped greasy goodness, and made all the other bus passengers envious. One sandwich would last all the way to Cleveland!!

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Not a DR per se, but I have intentionally scheduled 3+hr layovers at DTW so I have enough time to rent a car, drive to Blimpy Burger in Ann Arbor and make it back. I'd highly recommend this to any burger aficionados if they have the chance.

During the old CO/NW days, I used to route my mileage runs via MEM for this very reason. I believe I used to go to either Interstate or Corky's, whichever had the shorter line (Concourse B, if memory serves me).

This is an embarrassing problem, and I would join a support group if there were one:

Paris a lot, a lot, a lot for Pierre Herme and innumerable Michelin stars.

During college, while eating subpar sushi, a friend I was dining with who seemed to think I had all the time and money in the world to travel (not true, just read flyertalk ) suggested we fly to Tokyo and have *real* sushi, then turn around and fly back. Amused, I looked it up, found a sub-4cpm MR and off I went.

Also during college - one spring break saw a cheap fare to Iceland so I went to try whale (another FTer from my college went for a beer and came back); one summer break had cheap fares to Italy, so I did a few for pasta and pizza, both of which I gave up eating after tasting them on my first trip to Italy in high school... I'm such a food snob sometimes that I disgust myself.

HNL-DXB is my preferred MR these days, as it's 25k rt AND it's amazing for Persian/Iraqi/Yemeni/allsortsofmiddleeastern food, plus my Emirati friends always invite me for homemade dinners. There's a Gagnaire and Ramsay's old restaurant has improved since he left, but to me, they pale in comparison to all the Middle Eastern food available. I'm also quite addicted to dates and Yemeni sidr honey, so I have a luggage dedicated to lugging them home...

In fact, I've been craving jianbing 煎饼 for the past couple days, so this morning I was actually looking up routings between HNL-PEK (which also has a Boulud restaurant that I prefer to NYC's Daniel) to pull in as many miles as possible... Asia is unfortunately difficult for MRs from HNL.

Mmm, now I'm hungry. Back to working on that PEK MR.

Went NYC-Maui for a weekend just to have some decent poke. (OK, the $250 RT fare was also the reason).

I once re-route hubby's flight from Sydney - NYC through HKG, instead of LAX, just so that he can have good wonton noodle.

Uh... did HE know about the reroute before getting to the airport?

Is the stone crab the only AYCE bit? That's the only mention I read on Yelp's review of Truluck's.

Italian Beefs are worth the trip - done this too. I like to finish the job with dinner at Lawry's before returning home.

My last dining run was to Austin a couple months ago. Only reason for going was I needed barbecue and a small amount of year end miles for status. I could have solved the miles in other ways; this was about the chow.

After Taco Cabana warm up started at Franklin. Too big a line so drove to Lockhart and ate well at Smitty's. Next morning off to Luling & City Market for a bit of everything, followed by nice back road drive north to Taylor. I have not been that keen on Louie Mueller over the past decade & a half but that day was a good day. Thanked pit boss for his good work. Grabbed a couple Salt Lick brisket tacos at the airport on the way out of town.

Noma. I was going to Copenhagen in May for a beer festival and decided that since I was there, I should dine there too.

Yeah, like a day prior to flight. Actually his flight through hkg on CX is cheaper than AA thru lax. And much better seats, not that much longer either. So that's how he flies since.

I was thinking I never did this exactly, but then I remembered I did take a trip to Kuching, Malaysia specifically to eat the incredible laksa in the place where it originated. I fell in love with this silky, umami, noodle soup (soup is really the wrong word here) in Singapore and have some every time I pass through - as in two day ago! Use the ieathawker website/app for the best of cheap Singapore food. Kuching is a wonderful small city and the laksa was splendid. To be specific, I am referring to Katong Laksa and not the darker,sour-fished based Asam laksa of northern Malaysia. Asam laksa is good, but Katong is heavenly.

Come to think of it, the entire RoK is an infrequent dining run for me. I'm in Daegu now, wishing kimbap was as ubiquitous on NYC street corners as it is here.

We've done VLC-SVQ and a VLC-DUB for lunch then back on a later flight. My favorite right now is VLC-IST, just to have dinner in Sultanahmet and pick up a kilo of Turkish delight.