Studio CX, Enterainment System


CX 883 Supper

Caviar and Fine Smoked Salmon

International Favorites
Starters
Crayfish Bisque with dice tomato

Caesar salad with crisp pancetta, pine nuts, and parmesan cheese

Main Courses
Grilled black angus tenderloin with herb butter, garlic mashed potatoes, carrots and broccolini
Or
Sauteed gnocchi with goat cheese, portabella, shiitake, asparagus and soya beans on tomato basil sauce

Chinese Favorites
Ginseng soup with black chicken

Cold Plate-Marinated cucumber

Braised abalone with chicken, steamed rice, and stir fried mixed vegetables

Cheese and Dessert
Cambozola, Goat Cheese, Port Salut, Cheddar

Seasonal fresh berries with vanilla cream

Hazelbut Chocolate Cake with vanilla ice cream and toffee sauce

Black Sesame dessert

Tea and Coffee
Pralines

Starters – Rum and Coke with almonds


Appetizer - Caviar and salmon


Caesar salad


I thought the Caesar salad on the flight was a bit disappointing as an offering, it simply didn’t taste very good especially the meat in the salad. The western main course of the sautéed gnocchi also tasted rather dry for my taste. I did ask for smaller main course portion so I could try more food

Western Main - Sauteed gnocchi


The Chinese main course however was very tasty and the Ginseng soup was especially excellent
Chinese Main – Abalone Chicken




Chinese Soup – Ginseng Black Chicken

Soon after, due to my love for cheesecake, I stole a cheesecake from business class as the dessert rather than to go for the lava cake.


I however decline the cheese plate and the praline due to lack of interest

After the great meal , the flight attendants change the seat into bed and off to sleep I went for 4 hours.


The one biggest issue I found on Cathay Pacific flights especially with the duvets in First or Business is that you naturally wake up because you overheat during sleep. Since I woke up, off I went on watching some Simpsons episode and eating loads of snack on the flight.

CX 883 Mid-Flight Snack
Fried Chicken with crispy garlic and chilli

Assorted Sandwiches

Wontons with noodle in soup

Haagen Dazs ice Cream

Hot Pot rice with steamed chicken, Chinese sausage and black mushroom served with daily soup

First I had the Chinese Hot Pot rice

Then I had the wonton noodles

Followed by the Chinese black sesame dessert from the supper

And last finished with some ice cream

Here is one of my criticism on CX, why the plastic containers for the ice cream?

Soon after the snack, I took out my camera and computer and starting compiling my photos from the last few trips and later went back to sleep for another 2 hours.

CX 883 Breakfast
Starters
Orange or Apple Juice

Mango Smoothie

Fresh Seasonal Fruit

Natural or fruit yogurt

Assorted Cereals

Main Course
Eggs – freshly scrambled, fried, or boiled
Served with your choice of grilled chicken sausage, Canadian Ham, hash brown potato, roma tomatio or mushroom

Dim Sum Served with Chilli Sauce
Shrimp Siu Mai, mini chicken glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf, shrimp dumpling, chive dumpling

Lobster congee with spring onion pancake

Bread Basket
Assorted breakfast bread and fresh toast served with preserves, honey and butter

Tea and Coffee

Due to my extremely dislike of citrus fruit, I once again had to steal food from business class with an all watermelon fruit plate with a fresh made mango smoothie


Then I had the raspberry yogurt, once again, more plastic in First class

I went with the fresh made eggs with everything plus salmon from supper


Then finally some green tea and hot towel to finish the flight.


Due to all the headwind during the flight, we’re about 45 mins late landing into HKG, the flight attendant also got me to fill out another comment form which I noted specifically about some small detail changes. I saw some small details I didn’t like 1) I just didn’t like the plastic containers for the ice cream and the yogurt. It just cheapens the product. 2) I’m finding continuously that CX headsets can’t tone out plane noise like the Bose ones AA offers and that the duvet sleep to create very hot sleeping conditions. Other than those two issues, I had an extremely enjoyable flight on Cathay especially now with the upgraded entertainment system, updated First class seat, and good midnight snacks. Now off to the Wing and the HKG lounge hop.