Food on Asian Airlines

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sacolman

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Having burned my fingers, - well it was my tongue which was badly burned on one mouthful of the only food I could get on an Asian airline, it is a good idea to order special food or at least inquire whether there is European non-spicy food available on your flight.
 
Having burned my fingers, - well it was my tongue which was badly burned on one mouthful of the only food I could get on an Asian airline, it is a good idea to order special food or at least inquire whether there is European non-spicy food available on your flight.

Which airline was that? Sounds like the kind of food I would go for.
 
I know Asian cultures can include some spicy food within their cuisine, but even if they have some traditionally spicy food on board, it usually isn't spicy, or not even spicy enough.

I'm not very good at spice levels but I have yet to have something on board which would make me blow a gasket (steam wise, so to speak; not anger wise).

I would think this particularly true for Economy, where food is stored en masse and reheated/rehydrated.
 
Well given only two trips from me on Asian-based carriers, plus travelling in the pointy end, my experience here is somewhat limited.

That aside, I didn't find a problem with either heat in the cooking or contents sense with any of the meals I sampled on CX recently. They had a range of eastern & western dishes on offer, and I didn't have a problem with the spice factors at all - and I'm normally quite averse to spice.
 
I have never come across a spicy meal I could not handle (I am hopeless with hot chilli, curry etc) on an Asian carrier but I have been burned a number of times eating the wrong food.

I would not want to experience that burning mouth/tongue feeling again in a hurry....
 
Well given only two trips from me on Asian-based carriers, plus travelling in the pointy end, my experience here is somewhat limited.

That aside, I didn't find a problem with either heat in the cooking or contents sense with any of the meals I sampled on CX recently. They had a range of eastern & western dishes on offer, and I didn't have a problem with the spice factors at all - and I'm normally quite averse to spice.

CX is Hong Kong based which the local does not eat spicy food. Whereas countries such as Thai (TG), Malaysia (MH), Korea (KE, OZ) and certain part of China do (in Sichuan provinces for example) ....
 
Sorry to hear you got a bit hot on the tongue, but why didn't you just wash it down with lots of bubbly ;)
 
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Sorry to hear you got a bit hot on the tongue, but why didn't you just wash it down with lots of bubbly ;)

I thought milk (or dairy) was usually the answer.

Sometimes alcohol or bubbly can exacerbate the problem. Also, unless you are in premium, the bubble in Y could be, shall we say, "less than desirable"........
 
Please tell me which airline-I'd love some spicy plane food.;)
In the words of Chairman Kaga-"bring it on."
 
I actually get sick by eating spicy food and always ask if a meal is spicy. I am afraid what a gorgeous Malaysian hostess means as spicy and what I do are probably not in the same class. To ask for milk while the stewardess is handing out food trays and trundling the huge trolley down the isles would have been ridiculous. In any case, by the time you unpack your food and utensils, she would have been half a plane away from my seat. But next time I will ask for special food. I only get "burned" once. :)
 
I've never found the food on flights to be all that spicy, except for a memorable bowl of noodles on SQ that had huge chunks of chili, with seeds insitu. My gold-standard for heat is Szechuan hot-pot that we ate at a small restaurant in Chengdu, which caused severe pain whilst we were eating, and an agonising urgency about 12 hours later. It was stellar stuff, by which I mean that it was as hot as the core of the sun. In the words of one Homer Simpson:

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Mmm... Incapacitating.

I'm sure that the FAs can always find something that will appeal to pax who can't handle the heat.
 
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I'm sure that the FAs can always find something that will appeal to pax who can't handle the heat.

I seem to recall that that is what bread rolls are for... :-|
 
I seem to recall that that is what bread rolls are for... :-|

Or one can simply request the fruit meal when booking. Or even attempt to acclimatise one's taste-buds to the magic of the chili.
 
Sorry to hear you got a bit hot on the tongue, but why didn't you just wash it down with lots of bubbly ;)
I find alcohol makes the tongue and mouth burn more after eating chilli.

One remedy to ease the pain is to bite on a piece of bread for a few minutes and the burning/stinging goes away....
 
I actually found when I ate light even vego on long haul I arrived in better shape.

Curries tend to sit in the guts and I feel quite sluggish and gastro after them

The fruit suggestion is also a light option.

bTW I am not a vego, but this did work for me 10hr plus
 
I have never had any problems with food on Asian airlines... I have travelled SQ, TG and MH. There has always been a good choice of asian and western dishes, and usually the FAs are very attentive and will try and help where possible.

I always find the service much better than on QF.... (bearing in mind I do not have status with QF anymore which is another story)
 
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