Too bad?

However the caviar is not always available as people might have consumed all before

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The FA's seemed quite proud of having a skillet on the plane and insisted on cooking up some...after I had the Chinese Breakfast

I would say after 3-4 CX F flights, it starts to get boring when you follow the same routine of dinner, sleep, breakfast.

Sometimes I just drink water and sleep most of the flight.

You can always ask to have dinner items (including caviar) saved for you and served during breakfast time. Personally I am not really a fan of breakfast food.

Or if you wake up in the middle of your sleep you can ask for snacks such as soup noodles and ice cream.

The good thing about CX F is that you don't have to follow the "routine" that everybody else seems to follow.

IMO they don't really pull breakfast off that well onboard. I don't think that it's their fault, though. There's undoubtedly a temperature governor on the skillet and the toaster. I've always been happier with breakfast in The Wing (I'm nearly always at HKG for a connection as opposed to a destination.)

In the seven years or so that I've been flying CX LH F, I've only had one unsatisfactory Chinese meal, it was shrimp coated in bean curd, IIRC. The bean curd sheet tasted like and had the consistency of thin cardboard. Tried the western option only once in all these years, -- lamb chops ex-AKL. Almost no meat, and what was there was gristly, fatty and inedible. And I had assumed that lamb ex-AKL was a sure thing!! Go figure.

All in all, IME you can't really go wrong with Chinese meals in CX F. That said, I know that other people don't completely agree and have reported negative experiences on FT.

They give you really nice pj's and slippers LAX-HKG.......they want you to keep them....then you can use them wherever you end up.....brown and blue were available on my last r/t experience to HKG.

How about Krug with OJ and caviar?

When you are hungry enough, it doesn't look that bad of a mix!

CX also serves a European cold breakfast plate in first and biz class on flights to FRA. I actually prefer that one after longer periods in Asia.

As the flight leaves rather late, maybe even have a main course in the lounges and just caviar/appetizers/soup/cheese/dessert according to own taste with drinks before bedtime.

The FRA CX lounge has a few showers on arrival.

I actually really like the F breakfast, and the scrambled eggs have always been done really well - some of the best eggs I've had regardless of in the air or on the ground. Toast I always skip since it dries out so quickly. And the dim sum is usually pretty good - even if it is generally the same as the dim sum served in J.

1) when the crew come over and say 'Are you ready to sleep let me arrange your chair for you' please let them! Don't be like me, I told them is ok I know how to do it without realising in F the actually place a thin mattress over your flat seats for you .... Embarrassing huh?

2) if travelling with partner request to have your meal in the same seat. Dinner my wife came over to my seat, breakfast I went to hers. Amazing!!!

God I miss the special beep at the boarding gate!

I suppose you both have to be flying in the same class to share a dining table right? CX won't let you "cross classes" when you dine right?

You may be able to dine down a cabin, but not up.

I suggest using this classic thread from the LH forum as a guide to "maximizing" your experience.

Do note that if you do dine using the buddy seat, there is a table extension the crew can add to the table to make it big enough for 2.

Correct. Both the wife and I are on the same class. And yes the table was extended.