2020 Let's Eat - Polaris Business
Jan 15, 2020, 3:57 pm
#31
Join Date: Apr 2015
Programs: United Global Services, Amtrak Select Executive
Posts: 4,098
PVG-ORD
UA836
Boeing 777-200
Meal: dinner, breakfast
Menu - strange that none of the main options were Asian
Appetizer
Main - chicken
Sundae and fruit tart
Breakfast - congee
Disappointing meals as usual. The main was particularly disappointing, not creative and nothing premium about the ingredients.
UA836
Boeing 777-200
Meal: dinner, breakfast
Menu - strange that none of the main options were Asian
Appetizer
Main - chicken
Sundae and fruit tart
Breakfast - congee
Disappointing meals as usual. The main was particularly disappointing, not creative and nothing premium about the ingredients.
Jan 15, 2020, 11:48 pm
#33
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: SNA (home), LAX, BOM/PNQ, LHR
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Posts: 965
Thanks for sharing this. Flying EWR-DEL tomorrow, and I'm just that little bit happier seeing the spicy chicken on the menu. Will use the lamb kofta as my fallback option, and having read your description above, if I don't wake up mid-flight I am definitely asking for the channa masala as my pre-arrival breakfast!
Jan 16, 2020, 6:56 am
#34
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Posts: 686
I occasionally wonder just how many years of short rib futures UA is in for
Jan 16, 2020, 7:12 am
#35
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: SNA (home), LAX, BOM/PNQ, LHR
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Jan 16, 2020, 7:19 am
#36
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Jan 16, 2020, 4:37 pm
#38
Join Date: Jul 2005
Programs: UA 1K MM
Posts: 1,289
PVG-ORD
UA836
Boeing 777-200
Meal: dinner, breakfast
Menu - strange that none of the main options were Asian
Appetizer
Main - chicken
Sundae and fruit tart
Breakfast - congee
Disappointing meals as usual. The main was particularly disappointing, not creative and nothing premium about the ingredients.
UA836
Boeing 777-200
Meal: dinner, breakfast
Menu - strange that none of the main options were Asian
Appetizer
Main - chicken
Sundae and fruit tart
Breakfast - congee
Disappointing meals as usual. The main was particularly disappointing, not creative and nothing premium about the ingredients.
Same menu on PVG-SFO, a 787, on 1/15. I ordered express and the tenderloin was the best I ever had on an airline, cooked to a rare to medium rare.
The parsley omelet was just odd and the sausage inedible.
Last edited by mander; Jan 16, 2020 at 4:53 pm
Jan 17, 2020, 3:27 am
#39
Join Date: Apr 2015
Programs: United Global Services, Amtrak Select Executive
Posts: 4,098
Chicken stuffed w prunes looks really good!
Jan 17, 2020, 12:31 pm
#40
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: SFO/SJC
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Posts: 2,350
Just had the spicy chicken EWR-DEL. Damn that was good. Thank heavens for the three hour delay on departure (allegedly a deportee faked a heart attack to get off the plane) - I'd eaten at the Polaris Lounge and would have struggled to have a second dinner had we left on time.
The "channa masala with potato patty" also turned out to be a) really tasty, b) not actually channa masala though it did have garbonzo beans, and c) unfortunately a bit dried out because I had it reheated at the end of the flight. The FA did warn me and came to check on me three times while I was eating it to make sure I was happy. Top notch crew on this flight.
The "channa masala with potato patty" also turned out to be a) really tasty, b) not actually channa masala though it did have garbonzo beans, and c) unfortunately a bit dried out because I had it reheated at the end of the flight. The FA did warn me and came to check on me three times while I was eating it to make sure I was happy. Top notch crew on this flight.
Jan 18, 2020, 4:39 pm
#42
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Houston
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Posts: 8,694
Menu ex-SYD for 01/20
Jan 18, 2020, 4:59 pm
#43
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In this day and age, and especially with all the Eco-Skies talk UA subjects us too, you would think they could get rid of the deathstar shakers. It's hardly that they think that sachets lower the tone, since a) the tone is low already and b) they provide sachets for the second service. So just ditch the deathstar plastic shakers.
Jan 18, 2020, 6:31 pm
#44
Join Date: Dec 2018
Programs: UA
Posts: 104
I always keep the deathstar shakers as a souvenir. I really hope they aren't collecting and reusing them!
Jan 18, 2020, 9:00 pm
#45
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: middle of nowhere, formerly TYO/EWR
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Posts: 213
NRT -> SFO a week or so ago... Made the bad decision to go with the beef; was predictably quite overcooked (sigh). Appetizer was tasty though, as was the sundae with crushed nuts from the drink service! 
Also had a nice mid-flight snack of "singapore style noodles" (not pictured), and an inedible breakfast omelet (not pictured).
Also had a nice mid-flight snack of "singapore style noodles" (not pictured), and an inedible breakfast omelet (not pictured).