Took CX840 yesterday on the innaugural in F... nothing special about the flight compared to the other nonstop JFK flight with the exception of being on the 77W... no festivities or any type of souveniers... So instead of writing a trip report, I thought people might be more interested to see the menu being an evening departure and arrival.. I collected the menus in all 3 class, so here it is below:

FIRST CLASS

Dinner
Caviar, Balik & Champagne
Caviar and Balik salmon "Tsar Nicolaj" with cuvee William Deutz 1998

Starters
Califlower cream soup

Traditional baby caesar salad served with caesar dressing

Main Courses
Pan-fried sea bass with carrot potato mash, asparagus, shimeji mushroom and capsicum

Veal and caramel onion agnolotti with sauteed cepes mushrooms and semi-dreied tomato

Chinese Favorites
Sea conch and chicken soup

Cold plate - Sichuanese style jelly fish and cucumber salad

Braise pork belly with preserved vegetables
or
Braised duck with onion sauce

served with steamed rice and mixed vegatables

Cheese and Dessert
Shrophsire Blue, Tilsit Royalp, Reblochon, Camembert le Pere Alexandre

Fresh seasonal fruit

Pistachio ice cream with garnish and mango compote

Baked sago pudding with lotus paste

Chocolate chestnut cake with vanilla sauce and chocolate tuile

Tea and Coffee

Prailines and Cookies


Snacks
Braised beef rib finger and tendom flavored with chu hon sauce in noodle soup

Shui gow with choy sum in noodle soup

Wild mushroom and ricotta cheese pie with grilled zucchini and red onion confit

Plain congee with Shanghainese soya ban salad, picked mustard greeens, roasted peanuts and salted egg

Haagen-Daaz ice cream


Refreshment

Starter
Fresh seasonal fruit

Main Courses
Grilled veal fillet with madeira sauce, honey roasted swedes, French beans, sauteed tomato and mixed mushrooms

Garganelli pasta cream sauce and parsley pesto sauce

Chinese Favorites
Sauteed sea bass with spring onion served with steamed rice, stir-fried pak choy with ginger julienne

Cheese and Dessert
Shropshire Blue, Tilsit Royalp, Reblochon, Camembert le Pere Alexandre

Selected pastries

Tea and Coffee

Pralines


Wines
Cuvee William Deutz Brut 1998
Simi Sonoma Chardonnay 2004
Vaucher Pere Meursault Premier Cru 2004
Corton Grand Cru Louis Max 1996
Sebastani Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 2003
Chaeau Lynch Bages 2001
Ramos Pinto Quinta da Ervamoira 10 year old Tawny Port


BUSINESS CLASS

Dinner

Starters
Crab meat potato salad with shiso, marinated red pepper with apple vinaigrette

Mesclun salad with cherry tomatoes and orange segment

Main Courses
Shanghainese braised pork meatballs, steam rice with vegetables and pak choy

Pan-fried sea bass with tomato concasse sauce, garlice mashed potatoes with chives, baby carrots, asparagus and French beans

Sichuanese "yu shang" chilli chicken, steamed rice and Chinese mixed vegetables

Garganelli with artichoke and mushrooms in tomato basil sauce

Cheese and Dessert
Cheese selection

Fresh seasonal fruit

Cherry cheesecake served with mixed berries compote

Tea and Coffee

Pralines


Snack
Chicken pie with grilled zucchini, semi sun-dried tomato, kalamata olives and tomato concasse sauce

Wild mushroom and ricotta cheese pie accompanied with grilled zucchini and salad

Braised beef rib finger and tendom flavored with chu hou sauce in noodle soup

Shrimp wontons in noodle soup

Haagen-Daaz ice cream


Refreshment

Starter
Fresh seasonal fruit

Main Courses
Pan-fried beef fillet with Peking onion and satay sauce, steamed rice and Chinese mixed vegetables

Braised lamb with rosemary, parsnip puree, sauted French green beans and pumpkin

Field mushroom and garlic agnolotti with basil tomato concasse sauce

Cheese and Dessert
Cheese selection

Fruit gateau with passionfruit cream served with pink guava sauce

Tea and coffee

Pralines


Wines
Champagne Deutz, Brut Classic
Paul Sapin Macon Lugny Cuvee Prestige 2005
Sebastiani Sonoma County Chardonnay 2005
Kirrihill Companions Clare Valley Shiraz 2004
Chateau De Mercey Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Beaune 2005
Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 2001


ECONOMY CLASS

Dinner

Chicken salad with apple, mango and raisin

Braised fish fillet with preserved gooseberry, steamed rice, carrot, mushroom and cabbage
or
Beef stew in paprika cream sauce, mashed potatoes with parsley, broccoli and carrot
or
Fusilli with tomato mushroom sauce and grated parmesan cheese

Chocolate roll with icing sugar

Tea and Coffee


Snack
Snacks are available throughout flight


Refreshment
Mixed seasonal fruit

Roasted chicken breast, roasted new potato wedges and sauteed brussel sprouts
or
Deep-fried pork loin with pineapple in Chinese sauce, steamed rice and jade melon

Pandan panna cotta with mango sauce

Tea and coffee


Wines
Amberhill Chardonnay 2005
El Benteveo Malbec 2005
or
7 Lunas Syrah 2005

That's one thing its southern competitor has... starting it off in style! ie SYD service on the A380

Definitely...did you see the menus on the A380? Insane. They certainly weren't popping Deutz. Thanks for the menus tfung

Had my first wagyu beef in the air onboard SYD-SIN flight on the A380. ^

Thanks for sharing, tfung.

I hope you didn't pay USD 24,000 RT for this flight.

I would have expected that they would have served Krug.

On the "cheaper" LHR-HKG flights in F, they still serve Krug (based on the menus I've seen).

Of course not.. only someone with more money than sense would spend that obscene amount..

I'll be on this flight next week, so now I know not to get all excited, and expect anything special food-wise (although CX does have pretty good food, even in Y).

That's exactly what I was just thinking! Cathay.

Anyone know what the menu is like on the JFK-HKG version (841?)? It's a 9am departure -- so is the first meal Breakfast? I'm on it soon and can report back but I'd like to know what to expect in advance.

And what's the first meal on the early HKG-JFK n/s that departs ~10:15? Breakfast there, or do they go straight into lunch?

I'd also point out that it's odd they don't serve any breakfast meal on the 840 as posted above. I would think that given the 7pm departure, most folks would go to sleep after dinner, and then the mid-flight snack should be a breakfast.

I believe they call it brunch on CX830

Truly unbelievable that they serve the mediocre W Deutz 1998 on such a flight! Had recently Krug on CDG-HKG, for a fraction of the price of HKG-JFK.

On CX 840 (11/18) the Y menu was:

Brunch
Seasonal mixed fruit
Fruit yoghurt
Scrambled eggs huevos rancheros
or Chicken and black mushroom congee
Banana nut muffin
Tea and coffee

Lunch
Shrimp salad with cocktail sauce
Sweet and sour pork, steamed rice
or Baked salmon with white wine butter sauce, mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables
or Gemelli putanesca with mozzarella
Austrian chocolate cake
Tea and coffee

Snack
Snacks are available throughout the night

Since the flight leaves at 9am and arrives at 2pm (local times), I think the idea is that you eat, go to sleep (the FAs make everyone pull the shades down), wake up and then are on HK time, so it's time for lunch.

Same thing for 841 in reverse (dinner, sleep, "refreshment" = dinner again). The Y menu for 841 on 11/20 was the same as the original post in this thread.

Trevor

Sorry, I had 840/841 reversed in the previous post.

Trevor

Yeah, right, like I'm going to go to sleep at noon. (not at you). And I ain't shutting my shade all the way either - the arctic scenery is quite spectacular to watch. Of course with the new J seats it won't exactly be easy to see out the window...

Thanks for the menu update.

This is where not sleeping much the night before is very handy.

Actually, the arctic scenery was very nice. Glaciers, icebergs, but then mostly clouds once we were really far north (and dark of course, it being northern winter). There was a great moment when the half-moon hovered on the horizon in and out of the clouds. It never did rise from our point of view.

I was hoping to see some aurora on the flight, but I was back far enough that the wing light was blinding, so it was too hard to see any faint colors.

Trevor

It'll be interesting to see how F loads perform on this route these next several months. A cabin for a route that is nearly impossible to afford for most of us and extremely difficult to secure rewards.