Recent F experience
#46
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 149
The food however was poor relative to my other F experiences (NH, LH, OZ, TG, NH). I got the steak and it was a virtual hockey puck - I barely ate any. Caesar salad was okay though I could've done without the bacon bits. The GF got the western noodle dish (it was tortelloni-esque with gorgonzola cream sauce).
#47
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 149
Cathay delight is my go to - except of course when the forget to load the ingredients
Agreed on lounge food, kinda average. Def a huge fan of the coffee bar - great to chill and inhale haagen daaz.
#48
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: AU
Programs: former Olympic Airways Gold (yeah - still proud of that!)
Posts: 14,397
Agree. CX food is ok, nothing to write home about. It's the service and bed that makes F the winner.
#49
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: AA ExecPlat, AC, DL Plat, Amtrk SE, AmEx Plat, Bonvoy Plat (via SPG), HH Gold, Accor Plat, WOH Dis
Posts: 196
Cx830 / hkg > jfk
CX830 / HKG > JFK
Load: 6/6
Flower: Yes, removed just before landing
Notecard: No
Champagne: Galley pour with amuse bouche
Water bottles: Evian
Load: 6/6
Flower: Yes, removed just before landing
Notecard: No
Champagne: Galley pour with amuse bouche
Water bottles: Evian
#50
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tokyo
Programs: ANA DIA+SFC, BAEC Gold, CX Diamond, HH Dia, SPG Gold, IHC Plat
Posts: 24
Cx548 hkg hnd
CX 548 HKG HND
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes, and in both Japanese and English
Champagne: poured at my seat, both pre-departure and inflight
Water: Evian
This is the morning flight to Haneda and was sitting in 1A. As others have written, the food was a great disappointment. Standard congee, dim sum or omelet offerings, just a rehash of J meals on FC china, and very tasteless at that. Otherwise, the service was more than excellent and made up for the poor dining options. Indeed, a great crew really makes a great flight.
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes, and in both Japanese and English
Champagne: poured at my seat, both pre-departure and inflight
Water: Evian
This is the morning flight to Haneda and was sitting in 1A. As others have written, the food was a great disappointment. Standard congee, dim sum or omelet offerings, just a rehash of J meals on FC china, and very tasteless at that. Otherwise, the service was more than excellent and made up for the poor dining options. Indeed, a great crew really makes a great flight.
#51
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 149
CX 548 HKG HND
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes, and in both Japanese and English
Champagne: poured at my seat, both pre-departure and inflight
Water: Evian
This is the morning flight to Haneda and was sitting in 1A. As others have written, the food was a great disappointment. Standard congee, dim sum or omelet offerings, just a rehash of J meals on FC china, and very tasteless at that. Otherwise, the service was more than excellent and made up for the poor dining options. Indeed, a great crew really makes a great flight.
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes, and in both Japanese and English
Champagne: poured at my seat, both pre-departure and inflight
Water: Evian
This is the morning flight to Haneda and was sitting in 1A. As others have written, the food was a great disappointment. Standard congee, dim sum or omelet offerings, just a rehash of J meals on FC china, and very tasteless at that. Otherwise, the service was more than excellent and made up for the poor dining options. Indeed, a great crew really makes a great flight.
Did you have a Japanese crew?
#52
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tokyo
Programs: ANA DIA+SFC, BAEC Gold, CX Diamond, HH Dia, SPG Gold, IHC Plat
Posts: 24
#53
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: NYC/PHL/HKG
Posts: 209
Ha! Cathay Delight is my go to too! They didn't load the kiwi juices half the time...don't understand why. Flew CX 889 and they had it on the YVR-HKR flight but not the JFK-YVR.
#54
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: ...
Programs: CX DM / SQ PPS / VN Platinum
Posts: 1,078
The only load CX delight every month. The other month they have the cranberry and rose drink, Oriental Breeze.
#55
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: New York, NY USA
Programs: AA 8MM Exec,Life Plat, Marriott Amb,Life Titanium, ,Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist.
Posts: 495
Flew out on Cathay F and Back JAL F
No flower
Evian Water
Krug poured seatside as I requested
Amuse Bouche foi gras
Note received
Food is just not good on Cathay. I don't know why over the years they cannot pull it together. compared to Singapore or any Middle East Airlines they are serving Business class food in F. It is Interesting to me though as I used to have a friend who lived with 6 other people in a HKG apt. They all had real Rolex's and fine clothes, yet went home to this tiny apartment they shared....But on the street you would think they were rich....at least I did. Cathay's first reminds me of this.....Serve The Krug champagne....then 2nd and third rate wines and food that is not good....What appears to be, just aint so..Window dressing..somewhat of a facade.
Return with JAL in first was Beyond Amazing. Fantastic Service, the food was sublime and plentiful and everything prepared well. Nothing missing or forgotten....Their Sake's were fantastic and their wines were delicious. A flight attendant walked through the cabin every 15 minutes checking and refilling and providing water etc throughout the flight. Seat was slightly smaller then CX but WOW....what a difference in soft product. I was impressed.
I am on CX F next week yet again to NY....Will post back.
Safe travels to all!
Evian Water
Krug poured seatside as I requested
Amuse Bouche foi gras
Note received
Food is just not good on Cathay. I don't know why over the years they cannot pull it together. compared to Singapore or any Middle East Airlines they are serving Business class food in F. It is Interesting to me though as I used to have a friend who lived with 6 other people in a HKG apt. They all had real Rolex's and fine clothes, yet went home to this tiny apartment they shared....But on the street you would think they were rich....at least I did. Cathay's first reminds me of this.....Serve The Krug champagne....then 2nd and third rate wines and food that is not good....What appears to be, just aint so..Window dressing..somewhat of a facade.
Return with JAL in first was Beyond Amazing. Fantastic Service, the food was sublime and plentiful and everything prepared well. Nothing missing or forgotten....Their Sake's were fantastic and their wines were delicious. A flight attendant walked through the cabin every 15 minutes checking and refilling and providing water etc throughout the flight. Seat was slightly smaller then CX but WOW....what a difference in soft product. I was impressed.
I am on CX F next week yet again to NY....Will post back.
Safe travels to all!
#56
No such U.S. customs exist, LH, known for their roses, always carries them to the USA and ex-USA. I even had a conversation with a FA once in LH F about the roses. She told me in the ex-USA leg, the roses are sourced in the U.S. She then went to get the roses from the outbound, presumably kept in a freezer somewhere, to show the difference, those were indeed two different types of roses, as presumably, the latter was sourced in Germany.
#57
No flower
Evian Water
Krug poured seatside as I requested
Amuse Bouche foi gras
Note received
Food is just not good on Cathay. I don't know why over the years they cannot pull it together. compared to Singapore or any Middle East Airlines they are serving Business class food in F. It is Interesting to me though as I used to have a friend who lived with 6 other people in a HKG apt. They all had real Rolex's and fine clothes, yet went home to this tiny apartment they shared....But on the street you would think they were rich....at least I did. Cathay's first reminds me of this.....Serve The Krug champagne....then 2nd and third rate wines and food that is not good....What appears to be, just aint so..Window dressing..somewhat of a facade.
Return with JAL in first was Beyond Amazing. Fantastic Service, the food was sublime and plentiful and everything prepared well. Nothing missing or forgotten....Their Sake's were fantastic and their wines were delicious. A flight attendant walked through the cabin every 15 minutes checking and refilling and providing water etc throughout the flight. Seat was slightly smaller then CX but WOW....what a difference in soft product. I was impressed.
I am on CX F next week yet again to NY....Will post back.
Safe travels to all!
Evian Water
Krug poured seatside as I requested
Amuse Bouche foi gras
Note received
Food is just not good on Cathay. I don't know why over the years they cannot pull it together. compared to Singapore or any Middle East Airlines they are serving Business class food in F. It is Interesting to me though as I used to have a friend who lived with 6 other people in a HKG apt. They all had real Rolex's and fine clothes, yet went home to this tiny apartment they shared....But on the street you would think they were rich....at least I did. Cathay's first reminds me of this.....Serve The Krug champagne....then 2nd and third rate wines and food that is not good....What appears to be, just aint so..Window dressing..somewhat of a facade.
Return with JAL in first was Beyond Amazing. Fantastic Service, the food was sublime and plentiful and everything prepared well. Nothing missing or forgotten....Their Sake's were fantastic and their wines were delicious. A flight attendant walked through the cabin every 15 minutes checking and refilling and providing water etc throughout the flight. Seat was slightly smaller then CX but WOW....what a difference in soft product. I was impressed.
I am on CX F next week yet again to NY....Will post back.
Safe travels to all!
I last flew CX F this month on the HKG-HND route, I think this regional F is also decent and probably the only route I will recommend flying CX F on the condition that you take only the PM flights, not the AM flights. On these F flights, the Japanese meal is more than acceptable for flights of 4 hours or less. Plus, they are using the long-haul equipment on this regional flight, so that naturally gives it a big advantage. Other than the HND route, there are just so many other airlines who have better overall product than CX in long-haul F. Until CX management recognizes this, they will continue to lose a lot of business to competitors. Cutting corners in F is just not going to work, customers aren't stupid.
#58
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 101
CX846 HKG-JFK
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes
Champagne: yes
Water: Evian
Interesting meal!
Usually I'm not impressed by the meals CX serves, but this time CX served "inspirational dishes created by Michelin-starred Executive Chef Uwe Opocensky from Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong." And the lobster was good!
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes
Champagne: yes
Water: Evian
Interesting meal!
Usually I'm not impressed by the meals CX serves, but this time CX served "inspirational dishes created by Michelin-starred Executive Chef Uwe Opocensky from Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong." And the lobster was good!
#59
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: MEL
Programs: QFF, AA, LM, EY
Posts: 757
CX846 HKG-JFK
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes
Champagne: yes
Water: Evian
Interesting meal!
Usually I'm not impressed by the meals CX serves, but this time CX served "inspirational dishes created by Michelin-starred Executive Chef Uwe Opocensky from Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong." And the lobster was good!
Load: 6/6
Flower: yes
Notecard: yes
Champagne: yes
Water: Evian
Interesting meal!
Usually I'm not impressed by the meals CX serves, but this time CX served "inspirational dishes created by Michelin-starred Executive Chef Uwe Opocensky from Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong." And the lobster was good!
Hope I also get the MO inspired menu.