Went with the Cioppino
Didn’t want Pork, nor the Asian options, tasty but the sauce was more watery than juicy. Still a good choice compared to the other ones I saw around the cabin
Fruit and Cheese Cart
Not my best one, very similar to the outbound UA F flight
Ice Cream Cart
Went with a very slight touch of caramel
The FA forgot to put the little cake tray on, 2 types of pralines and a cheesecake
Green Tea to end the service
Flat bed good to go for some snooze
Due to my stupid and completely out of whack sleeping schedule, I caught 7 hours of sleep which is close to a record on a plane for me.
UA 869 Mid-Flight Snack
Noodle Soup with Braised Beef
Won tons and Chinese Broccoli
Dessert
Cherry Custard Cake
Fruit and light snacks are available at any time following the meal service
Please help yourself or ask a flight attendant for today’s selection
You know me, what do I do if I’m on a plane and bored? Let’s Eat!
Thankfully Rick from the outbound flight gave me a huge heads-up warning me the beef noodle ex-SFO tends to be super salty.
So I did a special request of having the FAs to water out the soup and refill it with new hot water.
That seem to have done the trick, made it less salty
Damn, sleepy me, I’m hating my body system, back to sleep for 1 hr 30 mins but I did warn the FAs to wake me up if necessary.
Didn’t need the wake up call as I woke out about 2 hrs out near Naha
Have no clue why United serves breakfast at 4:30pm HKG time, 1:30am West Coast, Most likely cost cutting, either way its super annoying considering your competitor Cathay Pacific serves dinner on CX 879 right about now.
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UA 869 Breakfast
Breakfast breads with butter and fruit preserves
Herbed Scrambled Eggs
Potato gratin, turkey sausage and grilled ham
Congee
Traditional Chinese porridge with chicken, corn, mushrooms and garnishes
Cereal and Banana
Served with milk
Photos started to become very hard to take with the turbulence.
Even had to stop eating periodically since I couldn’t take a good enough photo
Cinnamon Rolls, come to me, I didn’t get to eat you on UA 265
Fruit Bowl, doesn’t this belong on domestic F?
Yogurt
Main Course
With the turbulence over Taiwan, packed up a bit earlier at T-45.
Captain reports back it is currently 27 degrees in HKG with rain and moderate Winds.
Now if you have ever have lived in HKG, you know 27 degrees at 5pm during the summer means BAD BAD news, either it means its pouring rain outside or a typhoon is around.
Either way see for yourself
Can you see the rain water going from left to right?
Thankfully the winds from the NE were lined up directly against the Runway 7L, so not really the most awful landing conditions, rains however were another story
Get inside the terminal, calls Mom, what’s the Number? 1 or 3?
The number refers to the Hong Kong Tropical Warning Signal, No. 1 for standby, No. 3 for strong winds.
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