Originally Posted by
clubeurope
I don't think you can select the special meal for only one segment of the whole flight. I'm quite sure that the FAs will oblige to your request of having a standard meal in place of your special one, though it may not come to be especially charitable given it was loaded as your request.
FWIW, I've had the Hindu non-vegetarian meal out of HKG, and it was really bad, but then again, food from HKG doesn't always have the best reputation.
I think you can select a special meal for a segment. I have done so on their web.
I have been traveling TPAC (5-6 times in last about 7 months) and in my experience, HKG-LAX flight has decent AVML (Hindu Vgetarian meal). I eat all kinds of food, just like the tasty ones better. If you are not used to Indian food, you may not like it as much.
By the way, on CX flights, Hindu vegetarian option is certainly a lot better than just Hindu option. YMMV.