Spice bar at Melbourne Qantas Domestic Business Lounge

[AIRwin]

Same menu today but the chicken dish had nuts

Sounds more Hai-nut-ese than Hainanese?

 

[Steady]

Sounds more Hai-nut-ese than Hainanese?

It added crunch to the chewy, dry, powdery chicken- Sundays dish the chicken was moist, juicy and tender

 

[serfty]

Still same menu. Seems they mix and match the ingredients somewhat. ...

 

[Seat0B]

I had the tofu and mushroom dish. It was quite good although very salty. Mr Seat0A had the pork (no photo) and found it very dry

 

[Virgin Bart]

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I had the tofu and mushroom dish. It was quite good although very salty. Mr Seat0A had the pork (no photo) and found it very dry

Yes I had the pork at the lounge today too. Horribly dry. I usually really enjoy Spice Bar food but today was not nice.

 

[AIRwin]

I had the tofu and mushroom dish. It was quite good although very salty.

Needs another serve of noodles?

 

[Seat0B]

Needs another serve of noodles?

It was the mushrooms themselves that were super salty.

 

[kpro]

Yesterday the menu was vegetarian or chicken kimchi fried rice. Rice itself was okay, but became very good once I added extra chilli and kimchi from the side bar. Egg was cooked well and had a runny yolk.

What was even more impressive, was the plates being handed out and on the counter, of salmon crudo sashimi. These were very fresh and quite tasty, though I added soy sauce.

Overall the best domestic lounge food I've ever had.

 

[RealtimeY]

The Spice Bar was closed by the time I got there yesterday but they had this on offer. Is this regularly available?

 

[anat0l]

Kimchi fried rice topped with a fried egg, available with or without chicken and chilli sauce.

The menu description says it includes Asian greens. As you can see, they really just meant the spring onions.

Neverthless, quite tasty indeed. Bonus marks for the soft runny egg yolk.

 

[kpro]

The menu description says it includes Asian greens. As you can see, they really just meant the spring onions.

They did have the asian greens when I went, I think it was chopped up bok choy. Maybe they ran out or forgot the day you went.

You can see it in my photo a little bit above.