Airlines Standard Meal (Economy)

This is the post of the various airlines meal that I have taken during my flight.

(updated 5-September-2018)

GA838, CGK - SIN, 26-August-2018

The meal is a seafood (fish) with noodle.   The noodle is very soggy and I end up only eating the fish.   Well partly I have eaten before the flight.   The chocolate cake is very nice though.   My previous flight on GA838 has better meal.


GA409, DPS - CGK - SIN, 25-August-2018

Turmeric rice with chicken.   The dish presentation was so so but the taste was ok.    It is quite ok for domestic flight.

SQ963, CGK - SIN, 24-September-2017

SQ968, SIN - CGK, 22-September-2017

MI237, KNO -  SIN, 3-September-2017

MI234, SIN - KNO, 1-September-2017

GA838, CGK - SIN, 23-Jul-2017

GA838, CGK - SIN, 4-Jun-2017

GA409, DPS - CGK, 3-Jun-2017

SQ963, CGK - SIN, 21-May-2017

SQ968, SIN - CGK, 19-May-2017

Airlines Special Meals

-- Updated 16-May-2018 --

See my other post about airlines meals  (updated 5-Sep-2018)

 If you travel to certain route quite frequently, you will find out that you may get bored with the normal meal as it tends to be "similar" and perhaps they change the meat (from pork to beef to chicken to fish) but with pretty much same style. If you get sick and tired of normal meal, you may want to venture into special meals. Typically people will choose Seafood meal, but again, you can pretty much predict what you get on Seafood meal. It is mostly either mesh potatoes / spaghetti with creamy sauce with seafood. Again, you may get scallops and prawn this time and cod fish or dory the next time, but it is pretty much same style of cooking. Recently I decided to opt for Moslem meal; with I found it quite interesting and nice. I will try to update this page to show the different Moslem meal that served. Perhaps soon, I will venture into Non-Veg Hindu special meal also. Enjoy!!!

SQ002, SIN - HKG, 25-Sep-2013, Dinner.

Muslim Meal.  I believe the meat is mutton (rather than beef).  The carbo part interestingly is not rice (as per expected) but rather mesh potatoe.  The intersting thing, the sauce in the mutton is not really rendang/curry, I cannot really tell what it is, but it is nice.


SQ861, HKG - SIN, 29-Sep-2013, Dinner.

Muslim Meal. I read someone mentioned that SQ Muslim Meal ex-SIN is the nicest.  So I do not expect much for the catering ex-HKG.  But actually the food is not that bad.  But it is rather like Indian food.  The rice is like briyani rice but white in color and the meat is mutton curry.  Not as nice as ex-SIN but still good.


SQ866, SIN - HKG, 3-Nov-2013, Lunch.

Muslim Meal.  Looks very similar to my dinner on SQ002.  It seems not much variation like people said.  But I like the side dish.  Prawn salad with Thai chilly dressing.  Not so fancy about the mutton, although it is not bad.

SQ865, HKG - SIN, 5-Nov-2013, Dinner.

Hindu Non-Veg Meal.  As some one said the Hindu Non-Veg meal is quite nice, I tried to venture into it.  Well, I do not really like the side dish.  It is a chicken cube with some herb.  The chicken is very dry.    The main dish is almost similar to the muslim meal I had before ex-HKG but the veg is spinach which is nice and you get extra naan.

Overall not so fancy about the Hindu Non-Veg for now.


SQ866, SIN - HKG, 18-Nov-2013, Lunch

Seafood Meal.  Forget to change my default meal from Seafood meal to something else.   The side dish is Tuna salad (I still prefer prawn salad with Thai sauce which normally provided in Moslem meal).  Main dish.   Some fish (cod fish?) with kind of sauces and potatoes and brocollies and pumpkins?  The fish is as bit too dry in my opinion.   My special meal came only after every one else got their own meal.  Not sure what went wrong.  The water also came still have some ice.  I guess they put the trey in the freezer?


SQ871, HKG - SIN, 20-Nov-2013, Dinner

Moslem meal.  The side dish is a slides of salmon salad.  there is only 1 slice of salmon.  The main dish is Lamb meat with kind of rendang (but not spicy) sauce and sweet potatoes and some veggies.   Not really nice.   Lucky I have already had the wanton soup and laksa in the lounge earlier.


TG404, SIN-BKK, 9-April-2014, Lunch
TG606, BKK-HKG, 9-April-2014, Dinner

Seafood meal.   No, I did not make a typo on the title.  They served exactly the same meal on both flight.  Indeed, I think all Seafood meal ex-BKK you will probably the same stuff as this pictures.  I saw the same meal on my SIN-BKK-SIN late March-2014.  It seems SIN-BKK meal is also ex-SIN


TG639, HKG-BKK-HKG, 11-April-2014, Dinner

Seafood meal.   I almost decline the special meal that I reserved when the FA confirmed my special meal as I was afraid to see the same stuff again.  interesting, TG is actually get the catering ex-HKG.   Well it does not seems any better.   I really do not know what it was.  It tastes something like fried prawn paste.  The rice was also more like risotto type rather than Asian rice.



TG401, BKK-SIN-BKK, 14-April-2014, Dinner

Songkran meal.  This is a truly special meal.  It was Songkran special served by TG, I think 15-days since Songkran.   The meal is chicken with some sauce.  It is quite nice. There was a white chocolate withy Happy Songkran on the top of banana cake.

SQ866, SIN - HKG, 27-May-2014, Lunch

Moslem meal.   The worst Moslem meal that I ever had ex-SIN.   The salad was not bad.  The main course is really bad.  It was chicken breast in tomatoes sauce and spaghetti.  The spaghetti was so dry that I cannot eat.  The sauce is too little and the chicken is too dry.   The dessert is nice thought.



SQ871, HKG - SIN, 29-May-2014, Dinner

Seafood meal.  The meal is ex-HKG.  A typical seafood pasta with creamy sauce.  The pasta is very dried.  The appetizer is quite nice slice Tuna.   One of the worst meal.   I am not sure why the Seafood meal cannot come in Asian flavor.


TG410, SIN - BKK, 29-Jan-2015, Dinner

Standard seafood meal by TG.  Fish with tomatoes sauces and potatoes and veggie


TG4107 KUL - BKK, 13-Mar-2015, Dinner

Exactly the same meal as TG410 on 29-Jan.   This is very standard seafood meal from BKK catering.

TK69, BKK - IST, 1-Nov-2015, Supper/Breakfast

I was quite reluctent to order seafood meal, as most of the time I will get somekind of seafood in white creamy sauce.   So I called TK Office in Singapore and only requested the Seafood meal for my outbound flights.

I am not sure why there are 2 appetizerd but both are quite nice.   When I open the wrap, again I saw white cramy sauce type of seafood meal.   However, this dish is much better compare to what I had with TG (ex BKK) and even SQ.

I also like the way Turkish presented the culinary.  It is very neat and look a bit "high class"  (ok, some may disagree, but you know what I mean), make it very presentable even in economy class!!!

When they served the breakfast, no special tray was delivered.   I was thinking "oh well, it is just a breakfast, may be they onlly serve omelete and hence no seafood meal".   And turned out I was wrong.   When the crew was come to my row, he tried to confirmed my name and he said "this is seafood meal for you".   And this is what Ihad for breakfast

What I should have been taken was the picture of the ommelete broken into two part to show that the omelet was stuffed with salmon.   Again, the taste was very good.

Actually I quite impress with the food served by Turkish Airlines considering that this catering is not from their home base.   This should be either ex-BKK or ex-SGN.

SQ946, SIN-DPS, 14-July-2017,  "Late" Lunch (?)

This is the first time that I got "Asian" style Seafood meal in any airlines.   It is fish fillet with some sauce.   SQ also celebrating 70 years with serving Ete ice cream with "70 years A Great Way to Fly"

GA825, SIN-CGK, 29-April-2018,  Brunch

I requested Seafood meal on this trip.   It was fish fillet with sweet and sour sauce and some veggies.   The presentation is standard GA presentation which is less "glamour" compare to SQ, as it has less appetizer and dessert but the taste is OK.

Trip to the Land of Golden Pagodas - Part 1

I visited the Land of Golden Pagodas in early May.  This is my first trip into the country which has been closed for years.  Even now, I still need to get visa, although I hold ASEAN country passport. 

The process of taking visa is actually quite easy, 1 working day process.  You submit today and you will collect it tomorrow afternoon.   However, as I was lazy to go to Myanmar embassy in Singapore, I decided to use a travel agent service.  I went to Peninsula Plaza which is known as Little Myanmar to look for travel agent.  Apparently, due to a week of New Year holiday in Myanmar, the embassy was closed.  So some travel agent has back-log and they told me they can only submit the application for a limited number (some say 5, some say 6) per day.  I managed to get the agent that can do it for me (as I need to be in HKG on Monday before Labour day) and my trip to Yangon was on 3-May.


I took a very early morning flight (0755) out of SIN to RGN, as only the morning flight is SQ flight and the rest is MI flight, as I prefer to fly on non-single aisle plane as much as I can.  Here is the plan that will take me to Yangon

The flight was quite empty.  I think the load may not even 50%.  Most of the passengers are Myanmarese.  I guess not many Singapore-based business people flies to Yangon on Friday morning.  May the belly is full.

The flight was nothing to talk about.  The plane is rather old B777-200ER (10+ years) which still have a very small screen in economy, although it is AVOD.   The aircraft registration is 9V-SVK.

After about close to 3 hours, we were about to land at Yangon Mingaladon International airport.  From above, you can see a big river, I suspect it should be the mighty Irrawady river.

My friend told me he saw a big Pagoda when he about to land.  We suspect it is the Shwedagon Pagoda which I will cover later.

To be very honest, I expect that the RGN airport will be a very run down airport and nothing much to expect.  But oh boy, I am very very wrong.  Although, it is not very big, it has a very modern look and clean.


My flight just arrived from SIN and they have aero-bridge :)

There were some traffic on the late morning in RGN.  Most of the airlines that I never see before.

The terminal is very clean and modern look.

The arrival is on the 2nd floor, so you have to go down to pass the immigration and custom.  There is a sign welcoming you to Myanmar.  Mingalabar!!!

The luggage area is just after you pass immigration.  Immigration is fast.

You need to put your bag in X-ray machine to pass the custom.



There is a money changer just after you pass the custom to your left.  It is advisable to exchange some local money here, Kyat (pronounce likes Chat) - MMK.  The rate is quite good.  If I am not mistaken 1SGD = MMK 718 at that time.  When I took money using my Citibank ATM on the hotel the following Sunday, the rate is MMK695.   Now a days, you can withdraw money through the local bank ATM using MasterCard/Visa, but they will impose some small fee (cannot recall) on top on what your bank will charge you.You need to calculate carefully so that.

Please be warn also, you can forget your Credit Card in Myanmar.  Everything is in cash.  The hotel only accept room bill settlement using Credit Card.  What I heard, MasterCard is planning to be the first one to introduce credit card in Myanmar but this will only happen toward end of 2013.

Here is the scene after you pass the immigration.  Many people are waiting.  It seems they are waiting for their relatives or families member come back from overseas.  There is also a monitor to display flight arrival information like many other airport.

Part 2