2017 Let's Eat - Polaris First & Polaris Business
Nov 25, 2017, 11:40 am
#946
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Nov 25, 2017, 1:26 pm
#947
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Nov 25, 2017, 2:58 pm
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Travel for work is different than personal travel. Constant jet lag, work around the clock, no routine at home, and fatigue. It looks exciting on paper, but I am more than happy sitting in my backyard in Maryland than inside an aluminum tube or a hotel in foreign land.
Nov 25, 2017, 3:03 pm
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Nov 25, 2017, 3:05 pm
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The spicy Thai Chicken was on the Novmember Menu IAD-CDG (see post #910 )
Travel for work is different than personal travel. Constant jet lag, work around the clock, no routine at home, and fatigue. It looks exciting on paper, but I am more than happy sitting in my backyard in Maryland than inside an aluminum tube or a hotel in foreign land.
Travel for work is different than personal travel. Constant jet lag, work around the clock, no routine at home, and fatigue. It looks exciting on paper, but I am more than happy sitting in my backyard in Maryland than inside an aluminum tube or a hotel in foreign land.
Nov 25, 2017, 5:20 pm
#952
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LHR-IAH UA 879 17 Nov 2018 Seat 1E
Quick bite in the GFL pre-departure. Brut rose and the hot salmon. Tasty.
PDB of the sparkling wine split. Refill offered (and accepted).
Nuts with champagne. No wine flight offered on the 1010 am departure.
Salad kind of bland. Appetizer seemed to be Thanksgiving-themed.
Chicken tikka masala (spelled correctly on the menu) was really delicious. One of the best mains IMHO.
Paper cup or not, still tasty.
The pre-arrival snack. Not bad. Liked the cous-cous.
Nov 25, 2017, 7:01 pm
#953
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I can tell exCO crews every time, firstly they always have a need to tell you they are exCO secondly between service you never see them
Nov 25, 2017, 7:03 pm
#954
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UA7 / IAH-NRT / 2017-11-21
B772
Arrival refreshments
Instead of the chicken katsu, I chose the Southwestern omelet this time. Quite substantial and delicious.
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The following isn't Polaris-meal-related (and the moderator can delete it or help me move to another appropriate thread in the forums), but since I may have some of your attention, can anyone geography-savvy tell me which mountain this is in Alaska?
While drinking more coffee and sipping bourbon after the lunch service, this magnificent view of a beautifully shaped Fujisan-like mountain appeared. The best I can tell from the in-flight route map is that we were heading southwestwards between Kodiak Island and the upper "long tail" of Alaska (Katmai National Park and Preserve). I tried later to look up on flightradar24 to find more details about it but couldn't. (An after-thought, I should have asked the flight attendant to ask the captain what mountain it was.)
View on approaching
View from starboard
View from trailing
B772
Arrival refreshments
Instead of the chicken katsu, I chose the Southwestern omelet this time. Quite substantial and delicious.
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The following isn't Polaris-meal-related (and the moderator can delete it or help me move to another appropriate thread in the forums), but since I may have some of your attention, can anyone geography-savvy tell me which mountain this is in Alaska?
While drinking more coffee and sipping bourbon after the lunch service, this magnificent view of a beautifully shaped Fujisan-like mountain appeared. The best I can tell from the in-flight route map is that we were heading southwestwards between Kodiak Island and the upper "long tail" of Alaska (Katmai National Park and Preserve). I tried later to look up on flightradar24 to find more details about it but couldn't. (An after-thought, I should have asked the flight attendant to ask the captain what mountain it was.)
View on approaching
View from starboard
View from trailing
Nov 25, 2017, 11:32 pm
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Nov 26, 2017, 3:23 am
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I fly EWR-PEK-EWR regularly.
Meals out of EWR are usually good to great. Breakfast omelette ist very enjoyable prior to landing in Beijing.
2017-11-15: UA88, PEK-EWR:
Meals out of PEK are abysmal [as always]: breakfast omelette and rest of meal prior to landing in EWR is inedible. Has weird "off" taste to it. (Yoghurt is okay and fruit is edible.)
Recommendations out of PEK: Fish & pasta options normally okay; meat options - AVOID at all cost; Breakfast = diarrhoea
Meals out of EWR are usually good to great. Breakfast omelette ist very enjoyable prior to landing in Beijing.
2017-11-15: UA88, PEK-EWR:
Meals out of PEK are abysmal [as always]: breakfast omelette and rest of meal prior to landing in EWR is inedible. Has weird "off" taste to it. (Yoghurt is okay and fruit is edible.)
Recommendations out of PEK: Fish & pasta options normally okay; meat options - AVOID at all cost; Breakfast = diarrhoea
Nov 26, 2017, 5:32 am
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Ha 
Yeah I had second thoughts about calling this cous-cous. It looked sort of like the cold Israeli cous-cous they've had in the United Clubs occasionally (but cooked) but it might have been barley or some other grain. Can't recall how the menu described it.
Yeah I had second thoughts about calling this cous-cous. It looked sort of like the cold Israeli cous-cous they've had in the United Clubs occasionally (but cooked) but it might have been barley or some other grain. Can't recall how the menu described it.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Nov 26, 2017 at 6:02 pm Reason: erpaired the quote
Nov 26, 2017, 9:04 am
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I am not a big wine drinker, but I believe United always lists only 2 whites and 2 reds on the menu, then a generic note about other choices available under their "Sommelier's Choice" moniker. 
The wine flight is supposed to be comprised of all 3 of the whites or reds.
It is their way out of committing to which wines are going to be on board...same as the Champagne now. Just a note to "ask flight attendant for today's selection".
The wine flight is supposed to be comprised of all 3 of the whites or reds.
It is their way out of committing to which wines are going to be on board...same as the Champagne now. Just a note to "ask flight attendant for today's selection".
Nov 26, 2017, 10:33 am
#960
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I am not a big wine drinker, but I believe United always lists only 2 whites and 2 reds on the menu, then a generic note about other choices available under their "Sommelier's Choice" moniker.
The wine flight is supposed to be comprised of all 3 of the whites or reds.
It is their way out of committing to which wines are going to be on board...same as the Champagne now. Just a note to "ask flight attendant for today's selection".
The wine flight is supposed to be comprised of all 3 of the whites or reds.
It is their way out of committing to which wines are going to be on board...same as the Champagne now. Just a note to "ask flight attendant for today's selection".