Kosher Meal

Dinner

Appears that purity/separation from other (potentially non-kosher) food is taken very seriously. See first photo below, the red label lists the meal's contents individually. The tray, itself is as big or bigger than the seat's tray table, and is heavily saran-wrapped. The main course (just above the red label in the first photo) is heavily wrapped and sealed separately from the other items, but within the tray. In other words, can be tough to unwrap the tray and then the main; risk of making a mess is not to be underestimated. Then you have to somehow get rid of a large handful or saran wrap while the flight attendants walk around with the dining cart. In short - the logistics of getting to the food are not ideal.

Now to the food. Appetizer is a sort of spiced potato salad with tuna. Edible. A sort of dense but decent roll (beats the airline standard fare) with non-dairy spread (mixing meat and dairy is a big no-no in the Kosher diet). Main is a "beef casserole" more like a sort of salted roast beef with carrots, sauerkraut and potatoes. Very edible though was not a fan of the potatoes. Dessert was a kind of artificial-tasting cake, which I didn't mind, had a caramel topping. 

Overall, not too shabby. Happy eat again, minus complex logistics of unwrapping the whole thing and worrying about where to throw out saran wrap. A close second to the Hindu meal previously reviewed.

Date of travel: November 2013
Flight: BA 293 - LHR (London Heathrow) - IAD (Washington Dulles)

Hindu Meal

Warning - This is what I believe, a liberal interpretation of what is permissible in a Hindu diet, one could call it a Hindu non-vegetarian meal. Many Hindus do not eat meat or fish of any kind. It appears that CX's definition for this meal is that  beef or pork won't be used but that fish/chicken will be. Folks who are strictly vegetarian or want such an Indian meal should go for the Asian/Hindu vegetarian meal (code AVML) instead.

Dinner

Now down to business...Best airline special meal ordered to date that's been reviewed here. Pause

Was more than edible. Main dish of Fish Jalfrezi, fish was dry (nothing new here), but curry more than serviceable. Airline rice in the middle and on other side, a sort of curried/spiced potato. Soft and pretty flavorful. Standard dinner roll and butter, ditto fruit. Dessert was some kind of Kesari - like thing (a sort of sweet cream of wheat with clarified butter, plenty of sugar and food coloring) pretty tasty, but like most other Indian desserts, a heart attack inducer.

Date of travel: November 2013

Flight: CX 636 - SIN (Singapore) - HKG (Hong Kong)

St. Roque 34 Cafe in Macau

Note: Not in HK, but Macau's close enough, easy to get to and this place is delicious and not well known.

A place we stumbled into after our reservation at Albergue 1601 was not honored. Were told on the phone that no reservations were taken. Arrived to a near empty restaurant around 1130am on a Sunday and were told  it was full. Apparently full of bookings (didn't they say they don't take them?) and despite our efforts to say that we were told no bookings were taken on the phone...

Walked around nearby charming area and came across St. Roque 34 Cafe. Small, charming place and easy to miss. Ordered chicken stew, fish curry, croquettes and a "hamburger." Croquettes (pictured below) are minced cod and deep fried. Crispy and light outside, moist and flavorful inside. Perfect. Chicken stew and fish curry flavorful and full of different layers of spices though without overdoing it. Not Asian style and worked well with both rice and bread. "Hamburger" was the star, 2 patties which appeared to be pan fried, with crisp edges on the outside, but moist, tasty inside and not heavy. Was not beef, tasted actually like Indian-style tuna cutlets mom used to make but apparently (we found out later) was pork. Oops. Very tasty and a mistake worth making. Repeatedly. Was topped with a dollop of a sort of thousand island-like dressing sauce on which sat a fresh shrimp. Served with salad. A must try. Lots of stuff on menu needs 24 hours advanced notice but looks tasty.

MC/Visa accepted (I think - we used cash)
Reservations accepted

HKD/MOP 150-200 per person 

Rua S. Roque, N. 34, R/C Macau (near Igreja de. S. Lazaro)
澳門聖祿杞街34號文輝大廈地下. 
 +853 2835 4011 / +853 6640 8385

Phone transition

To add to the previous post - just an illustration (below) regarding why I had to go through a phone transition. 

Gluten Free Meal

Dinner

First - apologies for the poor photo quality. Currently in the middle of a phone transition courtesy of my clumsyness (or fat fingers). 12 days ago, I may or may not have dropped my phone at a crosswalk, whereupon said phone fell on the street as the traffic light turned green, 4 cabs ran over it. R.I.P. Anyhow...

Best part of meal was the rice cakes. Says a lot. Rice dry and overcooked, chicken dry and flavorless. Bell peppers edible, mushrooms the kind of standard stuff often seen in airline breakfast omelets. Fruit may have been past its prime... As expected everything was very bland. Funny thing, lady sitting next to me had low calorie meal which had the same chicken and mushrooms but different veggies and of course, the ubiquitous airline roll and some interesting looking dessert.
 

Date of travel: October 2013
Flight: CX 636 - SIN (Singapore) - HKG (Hong Kong)

Fruit Platter Meal

Dinner

As expected...Though no big expectations, variability of fruit quality was disappointing. Dragon fruit pedestrian (ie. more than ok for airline food), pineapple nearly inedible, large slices of melon (bottom left) actually quite tasty. Real disappointment was that small slices of melon (above left) were tasteless though what looks like the slice of a cocktail grapefruit (ok tasting) tried to help it out. Above center, was a canned apricot and canned pear which were the most disappointing. Mostly because being served canned syrupy fruit rather than the real stuff (even if its just an apple or banana or something) was lame. Roll and butter were standard.

Date of travel: September 2013
Flight: CX 505 - NRT (Tokyo Narita) - HKG (Hong Kong)

Bland Meal on Cathay Pacific

Dinner

True to its name. Was, well, tasteless. Main of a piece of rubbery, flavorless and sort of dry chicken, with a decent carrot mash (added some salt) and bog standard steamed broccoli and some mushy chips/fries. Don't get why airlines serve fries, really. Usually want them to be crisp or have some edge to them, rather than be soggy... Fruit and roll same as with other meals served on board. Instead of cup of Haagen Dazs ice cream, which standard meals got, was served some sweet tofu instead (on right side of picture). Was pretty tasty and I felt good about myself since it was healthier (yay?). Overall, not a meal worth special ordering.

Date of travel: September 2013
Flight: CX 542 - HKG (Hong Kong) - HND (Tokyo Haneda)