Airline Food: The good, the bad and the ugly

Slim W · November 12, 2024

On 11/11/2024 at 7:12 PM, ElsieD said:

I'm guessing you weren't in the cheap seats?

Well, it was upstairs on an A380. 😉

gfweb · November 15, 2024

PHX-PHL American Airlines

A chicken breast, terribly overcooked. The rice was nice. They served the rolls this time.

KennethT · December 25, 2024

Singapore Airlines NYC-SIN... Meal #1

A very nice mixed leaf salad with 2 perfectly poached shrimp, plus candied walnuts, blackberries and croutons. The sticky toffee pudding was pretty good too.

My wife got steamed chicken with lily buds (book the cook)

Mine was braised e-fu noodles with chicken and yu choy (also btk). Great aroma to the braising liquid and chicken (dark meat) was tender and moist. I've had this before but this time was a bit better and the yu choy were not overcooked this time like they were last time.

KennethT · December 25, 2024

Meal #2:

Decent croissant and the mixed fruit was ok - really good pineapple but strawberries were pretty flavorless. The yogurt/mango/oat/coconut confection was good.

Wife got pork congee (book the cook)

Soy sauce chicken with wok fried noodles. Dark meat chicken was tender and moist and noodles had decent texture.

4 more hours until we land!

KennethT · December 25, 2024

1 hour ago, Slim W said:

What is your flight time for this flight?

About 18 - 18.5 hours.

I also had a really good double chocolate muffin (from Norway) and a nice oolong tea about an hour ago but no pics.

This is the refresher just served about 2 hours before landing:

Made in Italy

While it's no NYC pizza, it's a very tasty flat bread with tomato sauce, cheese and dried basil.

KennethT · January 5

I'm half asleep writing this but hopefully it will make sense....

Singapore Airlines SIN - NYC, dinner served around 2:30AM (we took off a little before 1);

Arugula and thin sliced braesola salad, ciabatta roll stuffed with herbed butter and a pandan/coconut mousse cake with

Lamb curry with roti jala

My wife had the chicken biryani

Both were really good and from their Book the Cook.

Breakfast was

Decent croissant, fruit yogurt and

Char sieu and wonton mee with Sing Air's sambal - again, book the cook and really good. Chinese broccoli not overcooked, char sieu was tender with good flavor, mee not mushy.

My wife got chicken satay (unpictured) and said it was the best satay of the trip!

And a decent Chinese oolong tea

Edited January 5 by KennethT (log)

KennethT · January 5

2 hours before landing,

And a long missed snack - I haven't seen it for a few years...

Sambal made from chillies, shallot, garlic, shrimp paste and small dried fish.

Slim W · January 5

9 hours ago, KennethT said:

2 hours before landing,

And a long missed snack - I haven't seen it for a few years...

Ah the good old "cardboard pizza" ! As much as everyone made fun of it, no one turned it down prior to landing.

KennethT · January 5

1 hour ago, Slim W said:

Ah the good old "cardboard pizza" ! As much as everyone made fun of it, no one turned it down prior to landing.

I wouldn't call it cardboard, and I come from the land of pizza! Seriously, it was quite tasty - but the dough was more like a thick, soft flatbread than pizza. It's a quite welcome snack prior to landing, and I would say that it's certainly better than what's provided on most airlines that I've been on, not that that's saying much.

gfweb · January 5

@KennethT What class did you travel? The food looks too good for coach.

KennethT · January 5

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

@KennethT What class did you travel? The food looks too good for coach.

Premium economy - there is no coach on that flight - just PE and Biz

gfweb · January 25

PHL-DFW-OGG

Looks good, but weird watery omelet .

Woodford was good.

Pears under prosciutto were unripe

Filet was OK.

Omikase at Morimoto on Maui was pretty darn good

Edited January 25 by gfweb (log)

rotuts · January 25

@gfweb

looks like the trip was worth it

for the Omikase

KennethT · July 2

Singapore Airlines NYC-SIN. This time is something special - we were able to upgrade to Business class with our miles...

Menu for dinner (served around 1AM Ny time)

First course:

Salad of smoked trout with micro greens, pickled onion and spiced hazelnut. There was a choice of breads - I took the garlic bread - really garlicky and nicely toasted.

Chicken rice with chilli sauce, sweet soy sauce and lots of grated ginger. It was quite good, although I don't think Wee Nam Kee has anything to worry about.

Chocolate ganache cake - holy crap this was good. Inside was a nice orange compote of some kind - not too sweet and not too orangy - just a hint.

rotuts · July 2

@KennethT

Wow !

the chicken-rice was not on the menu . did you order in advance ?

or was C-R a standard off menu item ?

KennethT · July 2

31 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@KennethT

Wow !

the chicken-rice was not on the menu . did you order in advance ?

or was C-R a standard off menu item ?

In addition to the menu choices they have something called Book The Cook - a bunch of choices you can pre-order up to 2 days before the flight. And you can view the standard menu items at the same time so you wind up with maybe 12 choices of meals, plus the special meals like vegetarian, kosher, low salt, etc.

KennethT · July 2

2nd meal of Sing Air (about 8 hours later):

Appetizer of citrus grilled shrimp salad with ginger balsamic vinaigrette.

My wife got the duck confit from the standard menu. It looked a little tough. She said it was ok.

I got the shrimp/pork wonton noodle soup. This was really good - super thin wonton skin, perfectly cooked shrimp, noodles had good texture in a nice chicken broth with not over cooked Chinese broccoli. They topped it with fried garlic chips and some fried garlic oil.

Then came the dessert trolley:

I got the apricot tart.

Just in case there wasn't enough, they came around with a tray of chocolate...

rotuts · July 2

@KennethT

Pleased to see you are on you way to another Adventure via Singapore.

Congratulations on your UpGrade.

great fun to see High-End airline food. Thank you for the menu(s) .

May you have a Fine Time , taking us along.

Edited July 2 by rotuts (log)

KennethT · July 3

Last airline meal for a while - Sing Air Singapore to Jakarta - 80 minute flight:

"Carrot cake" with prawn, fried shallots, lontong (rice cake) and radish (that's the carrot part). All fried in lard... A Singapore specialty.

Slim W · July 3

1st of 2 sectors, St John's Newfoundland to Toronto on Porter. Croissant with cream cheese, a poultry product and rocket. Also a mango blueberry with cinnamon and lime dressing I think.

Edited July 3 by Slim W
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Slim W · July 3

2nd sector Toronto to Dubai on Emirates.. Started with the caviar with a 2014 Corton Charlemagne. Main course was lamb chop and braised lamb shoulder served with celeriac puree and root vegetables. Becoming Led Zeppelin was the video. But the highlight was a 2004 Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Very smooth and tasty, had a few glasses of that before I fell asleep.

KennethT · July 13

Singapore Airlines biz class has ruined me! I used to think that the food in premium economy on this airline was amazing, but this time it was disappointing - even though it was probably the same as always. Also, I felt like the service was extremely rushed, but now I'm comparing apples and oranges. Here inPE, there's a couple flight attendants for maybe 40-50 people - in biz, there's maybe one attendant for 6 or 10. Obviously there's no comparison. In biz, when my water glass (of Perrier) was slightly less than half full, the attendant poured more. Here in PE, they have Schweppes and no refills until much later... I'm not complaining - this is still heads and tails over what I've seen on most other airlines.

Menus for tonight's fight:

I didn't get anything off the normal menus but instead used Book the Cook ordered in advance. There's a lot of choices - even more coming from Singapore than from NY - at least 10.

Cold smoked shrimp salad but rather than served with potatoes as on the menu, it looked like farro or something. The roll was warm and stuffed with garlic butter. Really good.

Chicken biryani. Tasty as always.

The lime cake was also really good - light and just sweet enough to balance the citrus.

Edited July 13 by KennethT (log)

KennethT · July 13

Second meal, SIN-Newark:

The croissant was served warm and was nice and flaky.

Wonton mee with char sieu and Chinese broccoli from book the cook. Pork was really tender and both the wontons and noodles were good also. And their sambal was a nice touch.