Cathay Pacific Special Meals
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Cathay Pacific Special Meals
Economy Special Meal, HKG - LGW, 2018 Jan
Low Fat
Breakfast - great option if you want a western breakfast but not into bacons and sausages.
Sweetcorn and potato patty, Spinach eggwhite patty, vegetables. Fresh Fruit and pineapple yoghurt.
Bread roll, no butter.
Economy Special Meal, HKT - HKG , 2018 Jan
Fruit platter
Lunch - selection of fresh fruits. Delicious. Ice cream. Bread roll, no butter.
Low Fat
Breakfast - great option if you want a western breakfast but not into bacons and sausages.
Sweetcorn and potato patty, Spinach eggwhite patty, vegetables. Fresh Fruit and pineapple yoghurt.
Bread roll, no butter.
Economy Special Meal, HKT - HKG , 2018 Jan
Fruit platter
Lunch - selection of fresh fruits. Delicious. Ice cream. Bread roll, no butter.
#4
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: HK
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Posts: 39
the Fruit platter from HKT looks much better than the J fruit platters from HKG. I think the quality of the fruit platter is location dependent, not class dependent. If its from HK, it'll be awful, even in J. tasteless fruits, tiny portion, one each of papaya, pineapple, pomelo and melon (they always choose almost raw melon). But from thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, West coast USA, Europe, even in economy, the fruit platter is delicious, many varieties of fruits, good portion, etc. I think the problem is the HK catering service is barebones and always tries to cut corners, whereas the agents they use in outport actually know what they're doing... It is too bad fruits are one of the "easiest" special meals to get right, because no cooking is involved!
#5
Decided to be 'adventurous' and had the Hindu Meal in J, recently on the HKG-TPE shuttle. It was described to me as some sort of a lamb curry, served with some naan. It was absolutely abysmal, I've never had such terrible special meals (esp. Hindu meals, which I usually find delicious on airlines like SQ). The main course was dry, and the naan was waay too chewy. On the other hand, the crew were very friendly.
Is it me, or is the CX meals getting worse and worse (at least in J), like it wasn't this bad the same time last year.
Is it me, or is the CX meals getting worse and worse (at least in J), like it wasn't this bad the same time last year.
#7
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 116
Decided to be 'adventurous' and had the Hindu Meal in J, recently on the HKG-TPE shuttle. It was described to me as some sort of a lamb curry, served with some naan. It was absolutely abysmal, I've never had such terrible special meals (esp. Hindu meals, which I usually find delicious on airlines like SQ). The main course was dry, and the naan was waay too chewy. On the other hand, the crew were very friendly.
Is it me, or is the CX meals getting worse and worse (at least in J), like it wasn't this bad the same time last year.
Is it me, or is the CX meals getting worse and worse (at least in J), like it wasn't this bad the same time last year.
Air China has a problem with western food - they can’t make proper one. Cathay can make proper western food, but it seems they cannot make Indian/Hindu.
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