Thanks for the post, OP. Welcome to CX & the board!

The regulars on here, yours truly included, do tend to diss CX for its regional offering, and especially for its F&B!

SIN-HKG is considered nasty for other reasons as well- a heavy business traffic route- but no guarantee on hardware (last minute swaps..the 2-3-2 being 'inferior' to what all of us would like to have), a pathetic lounge in SIN (we use the QF lounge when available!).

That said, thanks for the post since we do tend to forget where things are, on an absolute basis, focussing on the 'relatively' (esp SQ for regionals).

Crew, on the other hand, are almost always hand over fist better than competition.