AirLine Food Log

Ahh inflight catering, a topic of much debate, you either love it or hate it, (actually that's not true, it's rarely loved, its more tolerated..) personally I don't mind it, infact I kinda look forward to it, getting a little personal meal served to you by flustered, over worked, sometimes under paid cabin attendants that are just trying to get through a standard day in the office to them, has always been fun, since I was a little boy. I used to love settling into my seat on board the BIG TOP heading from SYD to SGD, wondering what culinary delights were ahead of me.

Since those days I've been fortunate enough to fly quite frequently for work and pleasure, and with all things food related, I've been taking pics of my food adventures up in the sky, if only I had a digital camera back in the 80s to snap up inflight meals from back then, would have been quite interesting to see the difference over the years.

The purpose of this blog, or ALFlog, is to bring to you a picture of a meal served with a short description, I won't be critiquing the food as such, however I will mention whether I found the meal to be nice or not and any other relevant short commments.

Posted 05.10.2014
Cruising on board Emirates from Dubai to Prague I was first served what is described as breakfast deli platter consisting of thinly sliced beef pastrami, grilled chicken breast, gouda cheese, marinated potato salad and fresh crudites. Served with a croissant and the usual breakfast fanfare of juices, tea and coffee. Was reasonable despite the look. Still on board with Emirates heading to Prague from the lunch selections I had no choice but to try lamb biryani which is described as lamb marinated in spices and slow cooked with rice garnished with fried cashew nuts, raisins and onions. It was quite dry, the raisins sucked as they always do in biryani, but was edible especially with a glass of red.
Flying from Dubai to London with Emirates, this has to be one of the best meals I've had on an airplane, business or economy. The yoghurt based chicken curry with the sauteed spinach and basamti rice, with the delicate chicken was really very good. Applause to the caterers In my wildest dreams I never thought I would fly Air Algiera, but here I was, on board from Algiers to Cairo, and to my surprise a meal was served, unlike my flying companion I braved it, there is no other way to describe the main than cat food, however the beetroot and corn salad was nicely detinned though.
I would be lying through my teeth if I tried to write about where I had this and what it was, so I'll just guess, looks like a piece of fillet steak with a mushroom sauce (kinda) and some asparagus, carrots and red onions, I'm sure it was reasoanable, especially after a couple of the red wines. I was so excited to see this on an inflight menu, heading back to Dubai from Cairo, I was panicking they would run out before getting to me, thankfully it wasn't the case, and for fried kibbe served 10kms in the sky, I was pretty happy, I would have rathered tahini over the yoguhurt sauce, and the vermicelli rice instead of the steamed rice, but still a great surprise.
Another Emirates flight going from Dubai to somewhere, This was grilled chicken with provencal sauce. As expected the chicken breast was quite dry but was washed down quite adequately with whichever red I was enjoying at the time. I can't remember where I was going and what airline I was sitting on but I do remember that sauce that came along with these medallions was sensational and I wanted more, made the dry lamb quite nice.
Can't quite recall where this was to be honest, but I do remember the semi sun dried tomatoes going quite will with the pasta and my wine! From Dubai to London on board with Emirates I choose the Roast Chicken breast with onion sauce and mashed potato along with seasoned sugarsnap peas and carrots, quite reasonable and I think better than the other option of Fish Briyani with raisins and nuts
Breakfast with Turkish Airlines, flying back from Istanbul to Dubai in May 2015, quite a nice spinach pastry with a bit of cheese, apparently a regular breakfast item in Turkey Dinner onboard Turkish Airlines heading from Dubai to Istanbul. They called it a Turkish STyle Minsed Beef with Ratatouille and Bulgur. I loved it.
On board with Singapore Airlines, enroute from Sydney to Singapore, relaxing in the nose end of the 777-300er, starting with a glass of red after which this entree arrived, some fish thing, was gross, had half a bite, then continued with the wine We're still on board that SIA 777-300er, this dish of chicken, mushrooms with fettuccine placed in front of me was definitely much better than the entree, and was polished off along with a few more glasses of red. Very indulging the SIA cabin crew are!
Dunno how they keep the fruit so crunchy and fresh tasting, it's better than most places you buy from on the ground! So yes, this rather small plate, of neatly presented fruit was enjoyed post meal watching a movie and a cup of black tea I'm not usually one to try 'adventurous' food 10kms in the sky, however after a nap I felt brave and ordered Nasi Lemak for breakfast. How bad could it be? SIA's inflight catering is awesome, it wasn't bad, but I wished I had stuck with the omelette.
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Description is coming soon, some photos are from a few years back so need some research! In the meantime enjoy the pic On a flight from Chennai to Bangalore, had this delicious little combo of chicken tikka, samosas and some pakoras served up along with some galub jamun for dessert, very impressive for an hour flight, love Kingfisher!
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