I'm back// Airplane Food

Happy holidays everyone! Hope everyone had a good Christmas :)

I am finally back from my one month trip! (Actually, I returned two weeks ago but that's not important). Ever so glad to be back in my own bed, and to be able to use my own shower. Unfortunately, I keep waking up at midday and going to bed at, like, 4 am. Today's post is sort of dedicated to my travels. While I briefly documented the food that I ate in Japan, Thailand, and Singapore, I also documented the food that I ate on the plane. I used to hate airplane food, but as I have gotten older, I've now gotten used to it. I used to eat nothing on my tray when I was younger; yet these days you'll find me eating nearly all of it. Airplane food isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Despite this, I still hate flying. Someone's laptop bag fell from the overhead above me, and I was the victim of it (fucking sore back) as a result of sitting in the aisle seat. Sigh. I wanted to curse soooooo much and so badly, but was unable to with my parents right beside me. Double sigh. [/rambling]

From my experiences, I feel that Emirates serve the best airplane food. Singapore Airlines is a close second, especially when you're given the option of two different menus - the International Menu and the Japanese Menu - if you're flying from or to Japan. The Japanese Menu actually provides more food, but I never ordered it. They are extremely generous when it is time for a snack....there is a variety of snacks you can choose from - sandwiches, fruit, chocolates, cookies/brownies, potato chips, etc - and they don't give you limits as to how many different snacks you can take. Thai Airways however, is a completely different story (I have a grudge against them as a result of rude behaviour and a three hour delay in Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, ugh).

Missing from some of the photos below is icecream. Mmmm icecream! Not all of the meals that I ate are pictured below. One of the worst meals I had actually isn't pictured below. It was the worst flight experience I have had in a long time (...the three hour delay didn't help). It was an incredibly salty pork dish, and just thinking about it wants to make me hurl vomit.

All I remember from this meal was that the icecream was yuuuuum. Last meal from Singapore to Auckland.

The veal sausage was pretty good (for a sausage-served-on-an-airplane). The scrambled eggs scared me at first - it looked incredibly weird - but it tasted alright.

Laaaaaaamb. I was surprised that they served the dessert pictured above. It is a Thai sticky rice dessert, and it wasn't that great. My mother makes a better one. I was mainly surprised since I don't really think its for the Western palette (or anyone elses for that matter, other than for Thai people).

That cheese wedge was weird. It tasted like that cheese crap that you would eat at primary school. Very generous with the beef.

Pancakes! Yay. I find it rather strange that some airlines give you both a bread roll (or crossiant) and a muffin for breakfast. [/random]

That cake was effin' disgusting.

Don't remember anything spectacular, except for the large serving of chicken (which was appreciated).

Random observations:

• It pretty much seems certain that if you're going to be served breakfast on your flight, one of the options will be scrambled eggs. I also find it rather amusing that they just randomly stick a cherry tomato there in the dish. So random. Why not two?
• This isn't really an astute observation, but it is so much better to receive your bread roll warm and eat it immediately when its warm. Most often than not, the roll is already cold by the time it arrives to you (sigh). If by some chance the roll is warm -- eat it straight away. I made the mistake (once) of eating it later, and it tasted dry and crappy. No thank you.
• The majority of salads are ugggggggh. Crappy. No thank you. Same goes for dessert (unless its icecream, because, then its like yaaaaay icecream).
• Carrots are often included in meals. Heh.