<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RTWSTARALLIANCE:
My wife is a Japanese national. She did SFO to KIX and back. Complained about the low quality of the meal during her last two rts. Anyone else have this recent experience? She just sits there and looks at it with disgust. I ask her why she keeps ordering it. She wants me to tell her what to order. No win.</font>
IMO Obento is miles ahead of that steak - in whatever incarnation they serve it - I think another FTer said that the meat is flown in from the US - hence worst steaks are loaded ex NRT.
Biggest problem for obento is that its short on appetizers and lacks a hot, clear broth soup (o-wan), not to mention that the dessert is pathetic (not that traditional Japanese desserts are that great in the first place, IMO).
I would suggest trying SQ's Kyo-kaiseki (soemthing like the obento at the end of the day, although kaiseki is a bit more fancy - a full course dinner) meal they have catered in F ex-NRT and ex-SIN. It is quite excellent, and puts UA's obento in C/F to shame.