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One of the best airline meals I've had was with Korean Air: what you got was a bowl of plain steamed white rice, a bowl of vegetable soup, and a variety of cold
by david-given 10y ago
One of the best airline meals I've had was with Korean Air: what you got was a bowl of plain steamed white rice, a bowl of vegetable soup, and a variety of cold pickles and sauces which you added to the rice (including a tube of really nice mild chili sauce which I've never been able to track down).
All of which, of course, worked fine on a plane --- there wasn't anything which could go... weird and crusty... the way a lot of airline food does. And it tasted good, too.
The worst meal I had was with Air 2000 in probably about 1990. It was a intra-European charter flight, from Glasgow to Cyprus, and the meal was hilarious. Everything that should have been dry was soggy, everything that should have been moist was dry. Teenage me was particularly impressed by the croissant, which was completely limp (and moist, and greasy).
It did come with a little pot of pink, though. I have a bit of a soft spot for airline pink, even though I have no idea what it was. You don't get it any more.
BTW, if you want to be able to eat on a plane without elbowing your neighbour in the ribs, take chopsticks.
- wmkn 10y ago>what you got was a bowl of plain steamed white rice, a bowl of vegetable soup, and a variety of cold pickles and sauces which you added to the rice (including a tube of really nice mild chili sauce which I've never been able to track down). You most likely got Bibimbap, with Gochujang sauce (the chili sauce). Bibimbap is one of the Korean signature dishes, and Gochujang a staple ingredient of Korean food. On flights to Korea with Korean Air, and other airlines, Bibimbap is pretty much guaranteed. I agree that it works very well.
- david-given 10y agoThat sounds plausible. I'll need to try and find Gochujang in my local asian supermarket. I miss Korean food [sad face]...
- cjslep 10y agoI had a similar experience with Asiana airlines, except they offered one authentic Korean and one American style dish as the entree. My girlfriend got one and I got the other to share and compare. Both were awesome. Minus discovering the tiny pink squares are not watermelon. They were a form of beet, I think.
- cm2012 10y agoOften Radish
- throwaway1892 10y agoWhat's pink?
- madaxe_again 10y agoBlamange. I'm trying desperately to remember the bit, it was Doug Adams or someone, the gist was: He glared balefully down at his pressed aluminium tray. Upon it sat a cube of pink. He didn't know what it was called, but it was coloured pink, it tasted pink (if indeed pink could be ascribed a behaviour), and it was, therefore, simply, pink. I paraphrase grotesquely but I can't recall the source and google fails me.
- david-given 10y ago"Anyone want some of this" --- he prodded a dish vaguely, not sure of what was in it --- "stuff?" The others shook their heads. The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it, and in some strange way it managed to look like something you wouldn't eat even if it was pushed onto your plate after a week's starvation diet. "What does it taste like?" said Masklin, after Gurder had chewed a mouthful. "Tastes like pink," said Gurder. (Little dishes of strange wobbly stuff tasting like pink turn up in nearly every meal on all airplanes. No one knows why. There's probably some sort of special religious reason.) -- Terry Pratchett, Wings
- madaxe_again 10y agothank you I haven't read that in twenty-five years - it evidently stuck somewhere up in the mental attic. I think I keep the Adams and Pratchett piles next to each other, under T for Turtles and Towels.
- throwaway1892 10y agoThank you. I was missing the cultural reference.