Malaysian Airlines
Malaysian Airlines has by far the best airline food I have ever eaten. Definitely a far cry from the pricey, overrated, purchase-only meals on low-budget carriers! Since I was a young kid, one of the highlights for me when my parents took me travelling on a plane was the food on MAS!
Snack: Dairy Milk Chocolate, Crackers and Cheese, Bread and Butter. Entree: Pesto Penne Pasta Salad. Main: Spicy Lamb Kurma with Rice and Steamed Veges.
The food on Malaysian Airlines is always dangerously scorching hot, fresh and DELICIOUS! Not to mention the copious amounts of FREE booze you can drink until you pass out as I have experienced in past flights – great for a deep sleep on a long journey! Besides serving great food, I must also give credit to the fantastic in-flight service from the cabin crew.
Crab, Prawn and Fish with Mayo and Salad Roll for breakfast - this had a hint of Wasabe in it!
Earlier this year, I recall being on a flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur when my companion and I were served by a lovely lady who kept on bringing us cans of cold Carlsberg. I eventually dozed off, and when I woke up there were TWO new cans on my fold-up table! She definitely was the magic beer fairy of the journey – too bad I can’t remember her name.
Snack: Ferrero Roche Chocolate, Loacker Chocolate Wafer Sandwich and Pink Guava Juice. Main: Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce served on Spicy Sambal Fried Rice.
On long haul flights, you get 2-3 meals while on shorter flights you either get snacks or 1 full meal depending on the length of the journey. As a fan of MAS food, I thought this would be worth posting! I will be adding to this post in the years to come – In the meantime, enjoy these photos of yummy MAS food!
Snack: Fresh Fruit Salad and a mini Kit Kat bar. Main: Spicy Deep Fried Fish with Chilli Sambal Sauce on Rice and Steamed Veges with Oyster Sauce.
A closer look at the Spicy Fish main...
Entree: Smoked Salmon Salad, Main: Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken in Red Sauce), Pineapple Curry and Steamed Rice. Snack: Ferrero Roche Chocolate, Garlic Herb Cheese and Crackers.
yes, mas airline food is the best airline food by far…
i agree 110%
You should try Emirates Air and Singapore Airlines. Their food on long-haul flights is very, very, very good.
I love Etihad. They serve great food and give Haagen Dazs ice cream!
Agree..Food on MAS is superb!
Etihad I don’t know..haven’t flown with them..
Singapore.. actually so so only..
Air Asia.. well.. over-rated nasi lemak.
Beats Qantas food any day!
Hi,
We saw your blog. It is so nice of you to write about our food served onboard. The photos are also very good. I am with the Living MH Blog team. Can we post your story on our Living MH Blog at http://www.malaysiaairlinesblog.com?
Thank you and best regards,
Zaileen Hashim
Living MH Blog Team
Malaysia Airlines
Thanks for all your positive feedback. I am salivating at the thought of a nice MAS meal right now. Do you think the flight attendants will say yes if we asked for a second helping? =)
Idris Jala must have listened to his customers and actually did something in the way of improvements. In the late 80s and early 90s, I recall trying the wines they served on board. They were truly awful. It turned out that the people who were awarded the in-flight meals contract were politically-connected and were charging heaps of money to deliver awful and inedible fare. They could not be bothered because they only saw the ringgit sign. MAS was going downhill and was losing hundreds of millions yearly until the Malaysian Government took a drastic step to look for someone who could turn the airline around. The airline was becoming a major embarrasment. Political cronyism nearly bankrupted the pride of the country.
The famous 70s rock singer Jethro Tull once said, “to qualify as a country, one has to have a beer or an airline”. Obviously he did not fly around enough to note that there were airlines and there were airlines.
I can write pages of jokes about airlines.
Remember the joke about Aeroflot as the “flying coffin”? I wonder what kind of food they served?
What about the Belgian airline SABENA..? Such A Bad Experience, Never Again..!
Or Philippine Airline (PAL), Plane Always Late..
@rdlee re. Lufthansa:
epic!
I used to fly MAS exclusively from Europe to New Zealand via KL for a number of years. I’ve tried just about all the major airlines on various long-haul trips to a number of global destinations and I can also confirm the quality of MAS on-board food. On my final flights back from NZ to EU I actually cashed in some frequent flyer miles and upgraded all flights to Business. SWEET!!! First thing’s first: Asian hospitality is second to none. period. That goes not only for air travel, but also for all other aspects of hospitality. I must strongly encourage this remains the case going forward. Secondly, it’s the small details that really count and that last extra 2% that switch and experience from mediocre or even good to excellent with cherry on top! In the case of MAS Business class I just adored how the attendant came by with her nice little push-cart covered by an embellished white tablecloth and fine selection of dishes. I actually got the feeling I got SERVED and not FED!
Oh, and regarding the hostesses…at least the ones I can remember on my last MAS flights…ummmm…I definitely would!
Nat, you rock. period.
