Johna - the Mystery meal is solved!

I flew BKK-HKG on the same 10am CX708 flight that you took and had the same meal choices to see what is the strange 'brown' sauce you were talking about.

The "Salmon Salad Thai Style" is a tad spicy but if if someone would have just boarded from Thailand, they would know what 'spicy' is all about. I had no problems with that appetizer. In fact, I found it quite yummy.

The "Supreme of Duck Hunter's Style" needs to be cooked with the "thick layer of fat" in order to keep the meat moist. I just removed it when dining as did most of the other passengers. (Most of the HK Chinese passengers just ate the meat and the fat as they are used to fatty duck!) The "brown sauce" is in fact, an onion-based sauce which I found to be quite distinctive. It complimented the duck perfectly and mixed in well with the noodles.

I had the "Coconut Pie" for dessert - which I wolfed down as well.

In my opinion anyway, CX definitely had better food than Canadian (at least between BKK and HKG).

Give them another go sometime!