Wow, thanks everyone for the enthusiastic responses! I will definitely call UA 1st thing in the morning and pre-order the obento for UA852. I wonder why they don't increase the obento-to-steak ratio during catering if they always run out of obentos and even 1Ks complain that they didn't get their choices.

The only time I have had airline food as good as good ground food was on SQ. Their food service is amazing.