Originally Posted by
moondog
You can ask for ramen anytime you please, and even pair it with bread and./or salad, but the hot dishes are cooked in bulk according to the plan. As others have intimated, food is not a strong point in CX j, but you certainly won't starve.
Well, if they do the 2nd meal mid-flight, and then you wait too long to order a snack (such that they run out or close down the galley before arrival), then you may actually starve. Not to death, though, most likely.
Originally Posted by
Hollinger Clarke
Flew ORD HKG J in late Feb - first meal was heavy lunch, dinner served just before arrival. In between there were light meals (beef noodles, burger etc.). If, like me, you are accustomed to US airlines J food, the meals will seem like 1-2 Michelin starred restaurant service on CX
Well, I probably posted about this years ago in this thread, but I always thought Continental Airline's catering on EWR-HKG in J was vastly superior to CX. Closer to F in quality/quantity, without the caviar, Balik or Krug. Their meal service was always (1) huge lunch/dinner after takeoff, (2) substantial mid-flight snack, offered to the cabin at one time, but available on demand if you were sleeping, usually a big bowl of noodle soup and a desert, (3) pre-arrival hot breakfast.
Not sure what United has done with the catering since, but with CO it was great. That said, they only have one flight per day so it was probably easier to be consistent with the meal timings.