I managed to sample Air Asia's onboard cuisine (which is an opt in menu that you pay for) when I took the AK 0340 flight from KLIA to Sibu yesterday. I had been staring blankly at the seat in front of me for the past 40 minutes or so and one of the cabin crew went "Sir, would you like anything to eat or drink?" I was rather scattered so I went "What was that?" and she repeated her first statement and I thought yeah, some food would do me good so I asked what they have on their menu. I couldn't make out anything from the food choices she spieled out but I heard "(something) chicken" so I said "Yeah, I'll have that chicken thing."
It turned out to be chicken congee. "Congee", of course, is just a word people use instead of "porridge" to be pretentious. ;) Anyway, this was called Snack Attack Chicken Congee and cost RM 5. Upon further inspection I noticed that:
It was made exclusively for Air Asia.
The chicken porridge was in a polyester (?) tub which was quite big and deep. It looks like one of those premium ramen containers, one of the larger ones, but not the super premium huge ones. It didn't look like much, but add some salt and pepper:
and it tasted pretty good actually. That is saying something, considering I wasn't hungry at that time, but it could be the salt and pepper that made me think it was better than it actually was. Nevertheless, the portions are generous and the ingredients are satisfactory.
The chicken congee contains relatively large chicken chunks, mushrooms, and some other things I couldn't readily identify.
I arrived in Sibu and breezed through the typically lax (practically non existent) customs. Excuse the guy that got into the shot.
There was a booth before the exit with several doctors checking people without Malaysian identification papers for SARS before the exit though. Oops...this shouldn't have been in a post about food should it? My apologies. Heh.
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