Recently came back from New Zealand, via Singapore with Singapore Airlines. About 30 hours of flying each way. Singapore Airlines (SA) had great service and good food, as in the past. We flew Premium Economy, which is the lowest fair class in the direct flight from New York to Singapore (there's only biz and PE), which then put us in PE for the Sing-NZ flight, which has 3 classes. As I've stated before, there are a ton of meal choices on SA - in addition to the 3 inflight choices (which I was able to choose from in advance on their website/app), there are also about 8-9 choices that can be used on any flight from their "Book the Cook" series, which you order in advance on the website/app. On my last flight to Singapore, I chose 100% book the cook, but this flight, I mixed and matched.... So, without further ado...
The menu:
All flights started with:
I chose green tea, but you could have had your pick of beverages to go with your snack.
This was from book the cook, herb roasted chicken with potatoes, veggies - quite good - everything was well cooked, except the broccoli, which I didn't touch - not because of how it was cooked, but because it was broccoli. Broccoli is to me as corn is to @liuzhou.
Dessert after lunch.
Someone, I don't know whether it was teh in-flight staff or the caterers (they flight attendant said it was the caterers fault) made a mistake and made the Baked 3 cup chicken the lunch dish - but I had preordered it for dinner. So, when dinner came around, they did not have it prepared - so I was forced to choose another on the fly. I got the prawns with potatoes and veggies in a light cream sauce. It was tasty and the shrimp were perfectly cooked, even though the potatoes and veggies were a bit redundant, and I was looking forward to the 3 cup chicken. The flight attendant evidently relayed the situation to the head flight attendant, who came by and apologized profusely and then offered me a SGD$75 gift certificate good for anything in their shopping catalog, valid for a year. I initially refused it saying that it wasn't a big deal, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. I wound up using it on a gigantic bottle of flaxseed oil capsules on the last leg of my return journey.
Random snack:
Pizza and tiramisu. The pizza was serviceable but the tiramisu was really good.
Singapore to Christchuch (NZ):
Hainanese chicken rice (from book teh cook)... complete with chili sauce and sweet soy sauce. chicken was super tender and very tasty but the bok choi was not, unfortunately - it looks to have died a long time ago.
I wound up not getting the mid-flight snack as I was sleeping - by that time, we had already gone through an 18 hour flight and a 2.5 hour layover in Singapore, plus the time to get ready and to the airport in NY early enough, we had been up for probably about 24+ hours at that point.
Breakfast before landing in Christchurch - cheong fun with siu mai. Quite tasty - even the croissant was good - light and flaky.
