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sxc

Was it the Barramundi with Tamarind sauce? I had this smell on my way to HKG.

number_6

Tastes great (had it last week) but it is pungent and thus a brave dish to serve on an airplane. QF has added several more flavorful curry based dishes which are also smell-o-vision material. Personally I applaud QF for doing this, but can see how some would be bothered by the food aromas.

mew24680

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Gary Gorrie

Since there has been no double status promotions I have been flying Singapore Thai and Emirates.. Wow what a difference in food and service.I remember Qantas boasting of their famous chicken schnitzel sandwich [Singapore/Bris/syd] it was only popular because choices were so bad.They have steaks lamb chicken fish all fresh and well prepared with fine wine lists.Poor old Qantas [I am Gold Life Member means nothing now] pork [never see what Auss is famous for steak/lamb/fish] and other poor cuts smothered in garlic [I defy anyone to find anything on menu not laced with garlic] to try and hide the terrible tastes of frozen badly tasting food.
Thankyou Qantas for not doing the double status I have been exposed to such great airlines and food I wont be back. Imagine eating their food 18 hour flights they are attempting..Bet Alan Joice did not get served crap on his recent 18 hour flight..

og

The grass can indeed be greener on the other side of the fence.

shillard

To be fair, the QF food is pretty rubbish.

These day's I'm (thankfully) on a 4+ hours = J policy, and in descending order I would rank food:

1. SQ
2. CX
3. AA (TransPac - NOT domestic!!!)
4. LATAM
5. UL (plus they clean the J toilet after EVERY use...)


Then daylight, then a few others, then QF.


The dominance of the steak sandwich ended long ago.

og

Interesting you have CX catering in #2. I steered away from CX (J) some years ago because their catering had become worse than QF is now. They must have pulled their socks up remarkably.
I’d add TG to that list somewhere (above QF). I also feel UA international long haul is there too (above QF).

nancypants

Granted I haven’t flown CX or SQ for a long time. I really enjoyed the UL J meals (although the cheese plate was pretty pathetic, the other parts were good especially if you went for the Sri Lankan), LATAM is hit and miss and suffers from catering shortages (eg on the AKL-SCL they’d always run out of the non-soup starter by row 2 when I flew it); again things like the lucuma crisp (ie the national dish) was pretty good

have always found MH pretty good as well, especially with the ridiculously extensive pre order options

QF is around BA’s standard of catering. Notably BA F is still pretty poor. Domestically VA is generally streets ahead of QF which is a shame because the qantas lounges are better IMO

strikes me as not a particularly difficult or expensive thing to improve

levelnine

The problem is that AJ has deluded himself into thinking QF has the best food of any carrier:


https://www.dmarge.com/2019/10/qanta...advantage.html

LOL

IMOA

If the quote was 5 or 6 years ago it might have been defensible, sadly no more.

Re CX - Yes, they have picked up their game a lot from that bad period about 4 or 5 years back. Interestingly I've always found MH to be very poor which surprised me as I _love_ malaysian food but MH is the only airline where I often don't eat anything at all (hmm, to be more correct, nothing after the satay. thats good ). I also think that ala carte dining in the F lounge in KL is a horrible missed oppotrunity where it appears more interested in showcasing the food of Italy rather than Malaysia. Such a disappointment.

bensyd

CX food is still pretty weak with the exception of the dim sum breakfast which is great. American transcon is good, but not great. What I like about it though is that it does what it says on the box. Like most of Qantas' product it lives on yesteryear. Also I wonder how palatable it is for QF to be associated with Rockpool given what's come to light re underpaying staff and doctoring pay slips.

londonexpert

On the hkg-aust route the CX catering is miles better than QF. At least they feed the pax properly and none of this children portions

choosethedrew

Has Qantas recently increased the amount of catering? I saw a Dennis Bunnik review of PE recently and there was a full hot meal for the second service SYD - SIN, in which case that cabin looks better catered than J unless they have increased too?