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Picture taken by: Scribbler
Route: CX 919 Hong Kong to Manila, 24 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1 1/2 hour
Class: B777, Economy
Meal Type: Slices of sweet, juicy roasted pork on warm focaccio bread, strawberry ice cream and Christmas cookie inside silver box
Drink: Coke, but other beverage available.
Comment: Yummy and satisfying for a short flight. At least I didn't left the plane feeling bloated.
Rating: 8

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Route: CX 906 Manila to Hong Kong, 21 Dec 2003
Flight Duration: 1 1/2 hour
Class: B777, Economy
Meal Type: Lunch
Contents: Ham and cheese on focaccio bread and strawberry ice cream
Drink: Coke, but juice, coffee and tea available as well
Comments: Nice change from the usual rice or noodle dish I find on this route. Very appropriate for a short flight. But feel that CX should offer another alternative for those who don't eat pork such as vegetarians or Muslim.
Rating: 8

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Route: Hong Kong - Loa Angeles, 6 Dec 2003
Ticket price: US$ 1250 (together with connecting flight)
Flight duration: approx. 12 hrs.
Aircraft and class: B747, economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Regular, Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Scrambled eggs, sausage with mushrooms,
tomato and hushbrown Croissant
Drink: Tea
Coments: A tasteless and unappetizing meal. Below standards Cathay Pacific use to have.
Rating 1-10 (worst - best): 1 and 1/2

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Route: Hong Kong - Loa Angeles, 6 Dec 2003
Ticket price: US$ 1250 (together with connecting flight)
Flight duration: approx. 12 hrs.
Aircraft and class: B747, economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Regular, dinner
Green salad with baby tomatoes and Italian
dressing
Beef with broccoli, carrots and
mashed potato
Marble/cheese cake
Cadbury ZIP chocolate
Drink: Unknown Red Wine, tea
Coments: Cathay Pacific used to be my favourite airline but this is not the case anymore. Service quality dropped and it's not comparable to competitors (like Singapore Airlines, JAL). Service at ticketing at Cathay's Manila headquarters is ridiculously slow. The flight itself was quite comfortable.
Rating 1-10 (worst - best): 6

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Route: Manila - Hong Kong, 6 Dec 2003
Ticket price: US$ 1250 (together with connecting flight)
Flight duration: 1.35
Aircraft and class: B747, economy
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Regular, Lunch
Contents of the meal: Ham and cheese sandwich (additional
sandwiches offered)
Haagen Dazs Strawberry Ice-cream
Drink: Unknown Red Wine, tea
Comments: Cathay Pacific used to be my favourite airline but this is not the case anymore. Service quality dropped and it's not comparable to competitors (like Singapore Airlines, JAL). Service at ticketing at Cathay's Manila headquarters is ridiculously slow.
Rating 1-10 (worst - best): 3

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Picture taken by: Dickson Lai
Route: Hong Kong to Sapporo, 29 Ooc 2003
Flight duration: 4h 25 min
Aircraft type: Airbus A330-300, Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of meal: Pork meat Noodles,chocolate pudding,Potato Salad with vegetables,Chocolate,Bread,Butter,A packet of BBQ potato chips
Drink: Orange juice,Water,Mango Juice,Coke
Comments: A Nice Lunch,the noodles was good,the chocolate pudding was tasty,A good meal
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Route: HK to TPE, 3 Sep 2003
Aircraft type: CX408, business class
Meal type: snacks
Rating: 8

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route: TPE to HK, 1 Sep 2003
Aircraft type: CX565, business class
Meal type: snacks
Rating: 8

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Picture taken by: Wayne Kwong and Suzanna Lau
Route: Seoul to HKG, 15 Dec 2003
Ticket Price: Redemption
Flight duration: 3h 05m
A/C type: A330-300 (B-HLE) Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents:
- Four Seasons Salad with Olive Oil and Vinegar Dressing
- Gravlax with Honey Mustard Sauce
- Chicken Brochette Korean Style, Steamed Rice, Shanghai Pal Choy

or

- Veal with Pommery Mustard Sauce, Duchesse Potatoes, Carrots and Green Asparagus (not shown)

or

- Prawns with Black Bean Sauce, Egg Fried Rice and Mixed Vegetables

- Cheese board

- Fresh Seasonal Fruits

- Antillais Gateau (Chocolate sponge cake with fruits)

- Haagen - Dazs Ice Cream

- Assorted bread and rolls

Drinks: Anything. Tea and coffee came with chocolate pralines.

Wine List:
- Billecart-Salmon Champagne NV
- Loius Max Pouilly Vincelles 2000
- Jacob's Creek Reserve Chardonnay 2001
- Vacqueyras Les Armes de France 1999
- Chateau Haut-Vignoble Seguin, St. Estephe 2000
- Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 1995/1996
- Pacific Sunrise(champagne and Drambuie with a zest of lemon and orange)
- Cathay Delight (kiwi based non-alcoholic drink with coconut juice and a touch of fresh mint)

Comments: The salad leaves were really fresh. The dressing was very nice. Metal knives again. The gravlax with honey mustard sauce was good. They had the sauce in a hollowed out cucumber. Good presentation. The main courses we had were very disappointing. They were very bland. However, the rice was reasonable, not all hard and crusty. Thank goodness for the kimchis and the chilli paste. Otherwise, the prawn and the chicken dishes would be flat! The selection of cheeses was safe, nothing adventurous. Points added for using Carr's Table Water crackers. I find them very good for cheeses. Fruits were fresh and sweet. The cake was unpalatable! I could not even force myself to finish it. Neither could my wife. It was completely tasteless. I did not expect the 'fruits' in the cake to be of the dried type.
Ratings: The salad, gravlax and the fruits were the only good dishes. All the others were quite disappointing and so an overall mark of 5. Cathay's food, meal, catering seems to be going downhill