058
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Route: Auckland-Brisbane, Feb 2004
Ticket price: A$400
Flight duration: 3 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777-300 Economy
Meal type: Lunch
Thai style Chicken Curry with a hint of coconut and lemongrass flavour, garnished with red chillies, accompanied with Chinese mixed vegetables (including miniture sweetcorn and shittake mushrooms) and steamed rice.
Salad with lettuce and rocket, two slices of cucumber and one segment of tomato. Salad dressing. Cajun spiced lamb loin appetizer placed on lettuce, accompanied with pan fried green courgettes, dried tomatos and served with beetroot relish. Glazed Raspberry Charlotte garnished with dark chocolate scroll and fresh mint. A small "log" roll with butter. Cheddar Cheese and two Arnott Biscuits. A small Emirates chocolate.
Drink: Pot of water.
Comments: Wow, so much food, for such a short three hour flight. The chicken is done just right, with lots of flavour, but has tiny (and very hot) chillies hidden in the rice which will take the top of your head off. An odd choice for an airlinemeal. Lovely mushrooms though.
The Lamb appetizer is a good start, with beetroot relish in the Australian style. Lovely sauce for the salad too. But best of all is the desert, which is one of the best served in any airline's economy cabin. Kind of like a cheesecake, it melts in the mouth. Shame about the roll, which is a real disapointment, and after all that the cheese seemed pretty ordinary.

057
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Route: Brisbane-Auckland, Feb 2004
Ticket price: A$400
Flight duration: 3 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777-300
Meal type: Breakfast
Poached Eggs topped with Hollandaise sauce, on top of tomatos in a bed of baked beans, served with two sauteed button mushrooms in tomato sauce.
Fruitbowl with 3 slices of two different types of mellon, three grapes and a strawberry. Danish pastry, crossant, roll (with seeds) butter and apricot jam. Yoghurt bar, cheese and biscuits.
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: Another incredible meal - at least Emirates are consistant. The poached eggs are a bit solid after having been frozen and heated up, but the sauce still has flavour, and the two mushrooms go down very well.
The fruit bowl is very good, with a fresh strawberry even in winter. The crossant is soft and light, while the danish would be enough for breakfast on its own. The roll is a bit dry, and the cheese and biscuits are still confusing. The yoghurt bar is a bit cheap and industrial, but still works.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

056
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Route: Brisbane-Auckland, Jan 2004
Ticket price: A$400
Flight duration: 3 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777-300
Meal type: Breakfast
Plain egg omelette topped with grated Gruyere cheese accompanied with creamed spinach, grilled veal sausage and roesti potatoes. Fruitbowl with 2 slices of three different types of mellon, two grapes and a strawberry. Danish pastry, crossant, roll (with seeds) butter and strawberry jam. Yoghurt bar, cheese and biscuits.
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: All this for a three hour flight - in economy!... I mean, you hardly have time to eat it all! And very good it is too. The Omelette is as expected very plain, but comes with a fantastic veal sausage and lovely tender spinach.
The fruit bowl is a delight, and the strawberry an unexpected treat. The crossant is soft and light, while the danish speaks for itself in terms of its stickyness. By this point I was a bit lost as to what to do with the roll, let alone the cheese and biscuits. The yoghurt bar is definately something to save for later. All in all one of the best breakfasts ever served in economy.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

053-054-055

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Photo taken by: Wayne Kwong
Route: EK019 DXB to MAN, 27 Jan 2004
Flight time: 7h 30m
Aircraft, class: A330-200, economy
Business or leisure: leisure
Contents:
- smoked hammour with a marinated mixed pepper salad
- Seasonal salad
- Pan fried chicken breast with zaatar and garlic pineseed sauce, accompanied with sumak ric and vegetables

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- Beef Ragout with pearl onions served with match stick vegetables and mashed potatoes with herbs
- Dark chocolate and raspberry cake served with sauce anglais
- bread and butter
- cheese and biscuits
- tea or coffee with chocolates
Drinks: open bar. I had a Campari orange as an aperitif.
Comments: Very impressive indeed for an airline meal, especially for economy class. Everything on the tray was good. The ingredients were very fresh, even the hammour fish. The chicken was tender and flavourful. The dessert was as good as any nice cake shop would serve. Even the tea was good and strong. The coffee was a bit bland. Anyway, that beautiful piece of small chocolate ended my meal on a good note!
Ratings: 10

052
Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Kuwait-Dubai, 26 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1hr 15min
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Main Course:
Chicken Manchurian
Chinese style grilled chicken with Manchurian sauce, served with yellow squash, sugar snap peas and egg noodles
Dessert:
Custard Fruit
Fruit:
Melon, watermelon, grape, half a strawberry, pineapple and a slice of kiwi
Drink: Water
Comments: The chicken contained a lot of fat but was nice and meaty. The sauce with it was more along the lines of something I would get at a Chinese fast food place in the United States. Fine and dandy but I do
not expect Emirates business class to be serving something along the lines of fast food. The noodles were decent but as some parts had been dried too much in the oven, it became a bit too crunchy. How come so many airlines now seem to keep their rice and noodles moist yet Emirates missed it this time round? The fruits, which were moist and fresh, and the fruit custard was the saving grace of this meal! It was exceptional, really well prepared and tasted excellent, just wish there had been more of it; as it was finished within four teaspoons.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6 (If only for the custard)

051
Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Kuwait-Dubai, 26 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1hr 15min
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch (Appetizer)
Grilled pesto chicken with plum compote, garnished with green pepper corn, served with saffron sauce
Drink: Water
Comments: The chicken was a little dry and ice cold. The sauce was a big help in adding flavor to it; over all not bad. Garlic bread was excellent though.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

050
Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Kuwait-Dubai, 26 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1hr 15min
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Aperitif: Mixed nuts
Drink: Bintang Beer
Comments: The Indonesian beer was a welcome surprise

049
Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Kuwait-Dubai, 26 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1hr 15min
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Aperitif: Mixed nuts
Drink: Coke
Comments: Perfectly fine, though no re-fills were offered on the coke
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

048
Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Kuwait-Dubai, 26 Dec 2003
Flight duration: 1hr 15min
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Bowl of fruit ­ Papaya, watermelon, grape, half a strawberry, pineapple and a slice of kiwi
Pancake filled with scrambled eggs accompanied with lamb noisettes, sautéed mushrooms and duchess potatoes
Bread ­ Danish (with marmalade on the side)
Drink: Water (Coffee and Tea was offered a short while later) Comments: The fruits were fresh and tasted great, as did the Danish. As far as the main dish goes, it was as every bit pleasing. The lamb was tender and the pancakes were excellent, only the eggs were a bit tasteless but that was solved with some pepper. The potatoes were nice and creamy.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

046-047

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Photo taken by: GMM
Route: Mumbai to Dubai, 26 Nov 2003
Ticket price: USD 441.00
Flight duration: 2 h 30 m
Aircraft type & class: A332 ­ Economy (Y)
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Unexplainable / Inedible Salad?, Chicken Curry, white rice, spinach, dhai boondi, Bread, butter, pickle, milk based desert & Chocolate.
Drink: Bacardi & Coke.
Comments: The Salad? Don’t want to remember it. Chicken curry and rice were good. Spinach was bland and tasteless. Dhai boondi, bread & chocolate were nice. Desert was ok. The meal served could have been better on this day as it was the Day of Eid. And Ek being a middle eastern airline wasn’t offering anything special on their flights for this day. Not even an “Eid mubarak”. Not that I am a muslim, but felt that the Airline should have had some festive spirit on board. Although the Service was good and the flight attendants were helpfull and also asking fellow passangers to make their seats upright for other passangers to have their meal with comfort.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

045
Photo taken by: Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Route: Karachi to Dubai, 7 Dec 2003
Flight Duration: 1:40 hours
Meal Type: Flight departure was 10 at night so may be dinner or a snack
Comments on meal: One of the worst meals I have ever eaten onboard. Actually eaten is a wrong word to express as I left it as it is after just one try on really hard beef in the main dish. It was spinach and beef/mutton with rice and steamed vegetables. But nothing was eatable. Fresh fruits were good and dessert which was rice pudding (kheer/firni) was too sweat. it comes with bread and butter. Coffee and drinks were available.
Rating: 2 and they are for fresh fruit salad

043-044

043-044
Photo taken by: Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Route: Dubai to Johannesburg, 8 Dec 2003
Flight Duration: 8 hours
Meal Type: Snack and breakfast
Even though the flight was mostly overnight the food could have been quite little if I have not already eaten at Dubai airport. Gone are the days when Emirates used to have one of the best meals served in the economy class. Both the quantity and quality are compromised now.
(043) - Snack was chicken sandwich with chocolate cookies. And then there was a long wait for next meal which was served just before arrival. (044) - Breakfast was a much better deal. It comes with fresh fruit salad, bread roll, cracker, cheese and butter and fruit preserve. There was a small muffin to go with it too. Main dish had grilled beef,chicken patty, beef sausage, potato patties and steamed vegetables. Though the beef was a bit hard and vegetables soggy but relatively speaking that was a good and fulfilling breakfast. Coffee or tea and softdrinks were available.
Rating: Snack: 5 Breakfast: 8

042
Photo taken by: chm
Route: DXB-MUC, 27 Nov 2003
Ticket price: 733€
Flight duration: 5:30 h
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A330-200 / Economy
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch
Grilled vegetables with tuna, salad, beef with mashed potatoes and vegetables, plum cake, roll, butter, cheese and a piece of choclate
Drink: Pepsi and water
Comments: A very good and generous meal for economy. Emirates food, meal, catering ex Dubai is always a pleasure.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9/10