Airline Food – DXB-BKK-USM

Emirates from Dubai to Bangkok offered us the all-time classic question: chicken or beef?

Appetizer: something along the lines of Nicoise salad – very good taste, good quality olives, decent tuna.

Main Dish: either Chicken with Black Bean sauce, Vegetables and Rice; or Beef with BBQ sauce, Potato Wedges and a corn vegetable blend. I had the chicken which tasted like oyster sauce to me instead of black bean – it was good. T. had the beef and said the BBQ sauce tasted like McDonalds or Burger King, but not as sweet.

Dessert: A creamy strawberry-and-rhubarb flavord pudding thingy – I had a sniff at the pudding and decided to not try it, because it really smelled artificially flavored to the hilt.

I didn’t like the (industrial) smell of the cheese, either, and the prepackaged roll looked soggy, so I skipped it. I should have skipped the cake bar which came with the snack meal (coffee or tea), too.
Fascinating, how Asias Boutique Airline No.1 (bangkok Air) manages to serve a meal on a short-distance flight – even if it is just a fish burger:

The juice was useless junk, the fish burger was quite tasty and saved us from our growling stomachs after a long trip with a delayed flight to our final destination.

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