Originally Posted by QRC3288

In F, I highly recommend trying CX's:
1.) Chinese dishes, including mains for dinner/lunch and breakfast as well. I find they are tasty, well presented and very good quality. CX's Chinese mains are some of my favorite on-board food across all airlines J and F classes.
2.) Soups, even western ones. Generally quite good.

I recommend avoiding:
1.) Western mains for lunch/dinner. Usually not too many choices anyway (2-3 per flight), and I find them to be bland and nothing to write home about. What you would expect in a good J class, presented on nicer plates.

For the J short-haul, I would avoid eating at all. CX J food is a disaster on CX both short and long-hauls. It's slop, through and through. I suppose the Chinese options are slightly better, but generally the formula for both Chinese and western mains in J class is throw some meat and random vegetables together (meat and veggies mixed in the Chinese dish, separated in the western ones), add some vague heavy sauce, lob in a portion of rice or potatoes, and then nuke the hell out of all of it.