Originally Posted by
StuckInYYZ
Must be a newish development. I remember cup noodles being sold on Chinese trains up to 2019...haven't been on one since. Those self heating meals likely wouldn't help, although I've been told those are forbidden on planes.
Most sandwiches I've had on planes just suck. Need something warming sometimes. But anything that would be warm is likely to smell to some extent.
Cup noodle used to be a stable food on Chinese trains, which is something learned from Taiwan, which learned it from Japan. Then cup noodle started to become less popular on trains in Japan, then Taiwan, then China. It is now discouraged on Chinese high speed trains, and equally if not more discouraged in other East Asian countries.
AC used to provide both cup noodle and cold sandwich as the Y mid flight snack on TPAC flights, but the cold sandwich got enhanced away because of “storage issue”, when AC started to densify the B777s. If cost is less of a concern, AC could have kept the cold sandwich and enhanced away the cup noodle instead.
In TPAC J, most hot snacks except the noodle are ok though, as tuna or egg is rarely used.