The CX Kaiseki meal is similar quality, but it is close to form as a Kaiseki meal and not a tasting meal (Kaiseki is a variant of the Japanese tea ceremony, consisting of many small dishes with careful orchestration and filled with significance ... portions are deliberately small and the joke is that Kaiseki is when the dish is 3 grains of rice, but it takes 15 minutes to position them on the plate).
As I stated earlier, the Kaiseki meal is very expensive for CX and it is offered on one route only -- HKG-NRT-HKG non-stop flights in either direction. It is not offered out of LAX, or on the HKG-TPE-NRT flights; also only in F (there is a japanese meal in J). Cannot be special ordered for any other route (in or out of HKG). I've been told that the catering cost of this meal is over USD100, hence the limited availability (CX uses it to lure Japanese F passengers from JL). Probably the most expensive airline meal offered this year (ignoring the price of caviar).
(edited to fix typos and clarify that meal is on either direction of NRT-HKG nonstop).

[This message has been edited by number_6 (edited 11-05-2002).]