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Well, that's clearly quite a few... Asian... options. A lot of menus that have been posted here usually have a fish or beef dish which isn't Asian, but admittedly sound boring compared to what's on that menu.
Well no offence, but to me, Moussaka is def not asian, plus there's the salad, then none of the desserts are "asian" and the mud flight snacks are an biriyani and or a.. pozza "thing"
Biriyani is definitely Asian (Indian). Pizette is a small pizza
Even the sea bass could potentially be had without the sambal. I would have asked tbh (well no, I love sambal myself lol)
There might be an issue if the sambal butter is already spread on the fish before being warmed up. Then you can't separate it.
If it were me, and no Asian food wanted, maybe I would ask if the fish could be had without the butter. Otherwise, the moussaka, salad, pizette (maybe two if possible), cheese and dessert. Doesn't sound as sexy as anyone else who would eat something from the menu, but it is far from scraps or "nothing to eat".
Worse comes to worse, how about asking if W or Y had any spare meals that aren't Asian? No, that's not a proper fallback, but depends on how much one is starving.
Special meal requests probably wouldn't avoid Asian food. I don't think there is a SPML for "no Asian flavours" or likewise. VGML is at least half the time Indian (but the rest of the time is likely Mediterranean, i.e. Italian or Greek). I don't know what bland meals would be. Not sure if anyone would be interested in the fruit meal.
I'm with you. Pork belly aka pork fat. And don't do seafood. Vegie sometimes ok but never eggplant. Not a real meat option on the menu. A big fail. Didn't really have an option to offer and probably knew it.
Pork belly isn't all fat - just cut off the fat if you don't wish to chew it.
There was chicken biriyani, unless you believe chicken isn't a real meat. (Or you mean you want a
piece or joint of meat)
Have to say, the fish with sambal butter reminds me of a similar dish that was on offer in the SIN QF F lounge some time ago. I find it amusing that sambal can actually go with capers and work. Maybe they should have re-offered the dish as the fish with either sambal butter and rice or lemon beurre blanc with garlic potato mash. It wouldn't cost a lot more space because there's a dish that has rice with it already - just hope that not everyone orders the fish with rice as well as all the pork and you're good.
This is one of the rare menus I've seen where nearly all the mains options (including mid-flight options) are Asian. And sure, they
are flying from Singapore (Asia) and Asian cuisine ranks extremely high on favourite cuisine types amongst Australians.
No prejudice or persecution intended against those stating so here; the number of people I've met who will
definitively not eat Asian food/flavours could be counted on one hand.
