Eat & eat trip (part 1)

When it comes to food, our recent short sojourn to Thailand can be considered a pretty good trip. While we did not splurge on lavish meals (can't afford to), I had my fill of some of the yummy Thai (or Thai-Chinese) food that I like, so much so that within a day of returning home, I had started to miss the food in Thailand already. :(

Our eating started even before we left Singapore. Well, we didn't have a good breakfast, and lunch on board the plane would be late. So...

Here's Mee Rebus and Teh-C from Wang Cafe and Spinelli's coffee at Changi's Terminal 1. The mee rebus was surprisingly good, and better than those sold at many hawker centres. SO also had kaya & butter toast which was good too.



We'd booked air tickets for Economy Class. While checking-in, somehow, we got upgraded to Business Class, but who's complaining?!? *Grin*



Almost immediately after we sat down in the plane, the air stewardess came by to offer us welcome drinks. Look mom! A real (non-plastic) glass! ;P



Our legs felt very comfortable on that flight.



There was a very attentive, clean-cut young steward serving our whims on that flight. At one point while I was reading the Today paper, the young steward came to me, squatted down (I think he's not kneeling bah) so that his eyes were level to mine, then asked me what I'd wanted. I was like "Huh?" and looked at the steward with a blank look. Then we realised the SO had accidentally / keh-kiang pressed my seat's "call button" with his elbow! :-[

Then there was another round of drinks - the pre-lunch cocktails. I had a non-alcoholic cocktail with a dreamy name which I'd forgotten. It's the airline's specially-concocted cocktail with its own non-generic-cocktail name.

(ps: the green drink's got mint, lime and coconut juice in it)


We did not have to tear our own packet of almonds.
(On the return flight in Economy Class, peanuts were not even served, much less almonds!)

The SO had the Pacific Sunrise, the airline's specially-concocted alcoholic cocktail. It's got bubbly champagne, drambuie and citrus peels in it.



Then came lunch, served on a small table-cloth and with (real) ceramic utensils, and a (real) cloth napkin.



Here's the dessert and appetiser which I didn't like. I'm not a fan of chocolate or the prosciutto ham, so I just ate the pieces of fig, salad and cheese, and just a bite of dessert.



The 2 pebbles weren't paper/cloth weights, but salt and pepper shakers. They are like... so elaborate until a bit overdoing it hor? Haha!



I didn't like the main course at all. It was a choice between beef steak (which I don't eat), or seafood laksa. Normally, I like laksa, but only when it has hum (cockles). Worse, I could tell the laksa was made with packet coconut milk. I took a mouthful of it, just to try. The SO (with his not-so-discerning palette) found the laksa tasted ok.


The air stewardess (who addressed us by a salutation+our first names, by the way) did offer me a fish dish from the Economy class, but I didn't want to be troublesome and declined. It's only airline food afterall, and I'm sure I can have nicer food at our destination.

And oh ya, we were given real cutlery and real knives to eat our meals with...as if terrorists don't take Business Class??

(to be continued...)

Thai food, Thai food, I luv you!