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Photo taken by: Aqlam Jafri
Route: Kuala Lumpur - Muscat, 1 Apr 2006
Ticket price:
Flight duration: 0h 00m
Class: one class only
Aircraft: Airbus 343
Meal: Lunch - Rice , Chicken, Vegetable, Salad, Ice Cream and Bread with butter
Drink: Water mineral and Orange Juice
Comments: Lunch time.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5

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Photo taken by: SM
Route: Mumbai BOM - Muscat MCT, 28 Dec 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 1h 40m
Class: first
Aircraft: Airbus 330-200
Meal: Lunch - Mulligatawny Soup
A lightly flavoured dhal soup enchanced with coconut milk

Indian spiced lamb masala
Lamb shank marinated in spices, roasted on the bone with jeera cumin rice and yellow dhal palak spinach - with paneer lababdar cottage cheese in spicy tomato gravy.
Ganache coated black forest parfait with strawberry jelly and chocolate cashew nut praline - served with a drizzle of vanilla and mango coulis.
Drink: Water, Coffee
Comments: I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't imagining this kind of spread on a flight so short. I asked the SkyChef to put together whatever he reccomended and surprise me - and he didn't disappoint. Fantastic food and even more splendid presentation.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: R Benedicto
Route: MNL - DXB via BAH, 20 Feb 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 9h 40m
Class: economy
Aircraft: 340-300
Meal: cocktail before lunch, lunch - packaged cocktail plus wide choice of drinks from juices to wines
salad- mixed greens with thousand island dressing
main- beef stew with rice and vegetables
dessert- tiramisu
drink- drink all you want
SNACK before landing in BAH:
vermicelli noodles topped with fried minced pork
banana walnut cake

SNACK on the BAH-DXB leg
chicken samosa and a salad
drinks again are free flowing

Drink: drink all you want
Comments: a tasty meal from Gulf Air on these sectors. The inflight chef is visible even in economy.! Fantastic GF food!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Mr A Solum
Route: Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur, 1 Jan 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: Boeing 767
Meal: Afternoon meal - Air dried beef and pomelo salad
Thai beef curry with steamed rice or
pan fried red snapper with carrtos broccoli and cumin potatoes
baked cheese cake with a ragout of mixed berries
Drink: Champagne, white wine (French)
Comments: Excellent food - better on this short hop than other airlines First Class! Nicely presented, good flavour, excellent portion sizes and served by extremely attentive cabin crew.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Charles Wilson
Route: Islamabad - Abu dhabi, 31 Aug 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 3h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft: 767
Meal: dinner - main - Rice, vegetable curry, vegetable kofta and curried fish.
1 side salad
Dessert (unidentified floating object)
Drink: Red wine
Comments: The main meal was actually quite tasty. It was my first flight on gulf air, the food, meal, catering originated in Abu Dhabi so I was confident that it would be a good meal
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

064 Drink: Champagne "Pol Roger Bruit Vintage 1996"

063 A Sweet to round of: Baked Cheese cake served with a ragout mix Berries

062 Main Course: Traditional Thai Beef and Potato Curry served with Steam rice

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" Air dried beef and Pomelo Salad "
thin slices of beef fillet served with a salad of local grapefruit and fresh herbs
Photo taken by: Tee
Route: Hong Kong - Bangkok, 25 Aug 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: Airbus A340
Meal: lunch - appetizer -
Comments: My flight to Bngkok started with " Air dried beef and Pomelo Salad " WoW!! I have to say grapefruit salad very tasty.The Sweet and Sour of Fruit get along with a mild spicy and smoke beef slice is superb!!!
Followed with Main Course. Actually I would like to order Pan Fried red Snapper but my choice of meal is not available so i not hesitate to try "Thai Beef Curry with Rice" The Curry not too spicy but have a good taste for Chinese and Western passenger
I choose Cheese cake served with Mix Berry for a dessret.Oh i don't know how can find an extremely delicious cheescake on the ground.The sweet of can and Sour of Mix Berries Sauce plus Hot Creamy Tea Hmmm...Perfect!!!
And Last...
Pol Roger Brut Vintage Champagne 1996
I have to say Pol Roger is one of The Greatest champagne house this 1996 Vintage shows all the hallmarks of a truly outstanding year.It is intensely and exquisitely rich,with Peach and Vanilla Fruitiness underlying great acidity
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: James Clarke
Route: London - Bahrain, 22 Feb 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 7h 00m
Class: first
Aircraft: Airbus A310
Meal: lunch - main - Confit of duck with braised parsnip and sugar snap peas, with potato.
Drink: Nice variety of full bodied reds on the menu
Comments: Excellent 4 course meal from Gulf Air. The on-board "sky chef" for first class only is an excellent innovation with genuinely brings reasonable restaurant quality food to the skies.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: Herbert Lau
Route: FRA to Bahrain, 15 Jul 2005
Ticket price: dont know
Flight duration: 7h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: Airbus A340-300
Meal: lunch - appetizer - starts with a mixed salad with balls of Mozarella cheese,
followed by the maincourse of fish with a garli bernaise sauce with potatoes and ratatouille vegetable,
cake, cheeese, fruits and coffee with this typical arabian sweet taste
Drink: choices of champagner, white and red wine, liquers, spirits and a lot of non alkohol drinks
Comments: good service for drinks but they dont come with a trolley for drinks. You have to say what you want and they bring it immidiatley.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Dolci
Route: Bahrain to Dubai , 18 Jun 2005
Ticket price: 114.44 USD
Flight duration: around 1 hr
Aircraft type & class: Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: LUNCH !
Contents of the meal:Piece of Cake , Sandwich and Water
Drink: Water
Comments: They might call the meal a snak , but it is lunch time (take-off time was 11.50 am), I am a frequent traveller and tried a lot of airlines , but this was the worse meal ever .. a salad sandwich !! duh !!... I think it consists cottege cheese not sure because it was taste less .. I also did not try to open the Cake's .. the cacke bag did not even had the logo of the airline .. we were lucky enough to buy our selves Snapple bottle and Lay's...I don't recall them offering soft or called drink other than water ..
the picture speakes for it self
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1out of 10 although did not drink it
Camera brand & type: Canon Digital IXUS40

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Photo taken by: Jill Sara
Route: SYD to SIN , date: 20 March 2005
Ticket price: S$650 (taxes inclusive)
Flight duration: 8 hours
Aircraft type & class: A300 / Upgraded to Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner / Breakfast
Contents of the meal:
Drink: Champagne, Tea
Comments:
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 11 - Totally awesome! The flight, crew, food, entertainment!
Camera brand & type: Canon Digital Ixus 40

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Photo taken by: Pang
Route: Bangkok - Hong Kong, 27 May 2005
Flight duration: 2hrs 30 mins
Business or leisure trip: leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Noodle with fried fish, coffee cake.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4
Camera brand & type: Sony DSC-T1

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Photo taken by: Doug Frankwich
Route: IST Istanbul - BAH Bahrain, date: 23 April 2005
Ticket price: $1351.00 USD
Flight duration: 3h 50m
Aircraft type & class: Airbus 320 Y-class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Beef Kabob with vegetables
Drink: French red wine
Comments: Outstanding service for Y class!
IFE limited to music no video on this A320
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
Camera brand & type: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P120

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Photo taken by: Thomas Sehested
Route: Abu Dhabi - Paris (via Bahrain), 18 Jan 2005
Flight duration: 8 hours
Aircraft type and class: Airbus 330, economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Pasta with tomato sauce and cheese. Salad and bred rolls. Cardamom custard for dessert.
Drink: Water and red wine.
Comments: OK, but perhaps a bit on the standard side. The dessert was very tasty.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
Camera brand & type: Canon Ixus 40

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Photo taken by: Thomas Sehested
Route: Bahrain - Muscat, 22 Dec 2004
Flight duration: 1,5 hours
Aircraft type and class: A 340, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: Chick pea salad and some kind of chicken pastry. Minimalistic fruit salad.
Drink: Water and cola - choice from bar.
Comments: Not bad for such a short flight. Chick peas very good, the pastry a bit strange. Attentive service.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
Camera brand & type: Canon Ixus 40

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Photo taken by: Amy & Bob
Route: Kathmandu-Abu Dhabi, 26 Dec 2004
Ticket price: unknown
Flight duration: 5:15
Aircraft type & class: 767, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: lunch
Contents of the meal: Vegetarian selection, curried corn balls (?), curried chickpeas, rice, fatoosh salad, bread, "laban up", pistachio custard
Drink: water and Sprite
Comments: Gulf Air certainly can't brag that THIS is the best food...it was either this or "mutton". For real, who serves MUTTON on an airplane??? They did come around with mini Mars bars later, though. That gives them the 1.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: Amy & Bob
Route: Abu Dhabi to Kathmandu, 9 Dec 2004
Ticket price: unknown
Flight duration: 4.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: A-340, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: lunch
Contents of the meal: Vegetarian selection, curried fried corn balls (?) curried chickpeas, rice, with potato salad, a "laban up" and a mystery ball of dessert.
Drink: water
Comments: When you can't identify whether the dessert ball is animal, vegetable, or mineral, you know you're in trouble. And potato salad??? For an airline that's now boasting to have the "best food in the industry," this is pathetic even by bad meal standards. Seriously--what IS that dessert??
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1 (generous)
Camera brand & type: A new Sony T-1 that Santa brought early!

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Photo taken by: Vittavas Prathomvarl
Route: Hong Kong (HKG) - Bangkok (BKK), 5 September 2004
Ticket price: Round trip for 5,998 baht (144 USD.) for Economy class but was upgraded to business class from BKK-HKG
Flight duration: 2 hrs 10 mins
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 Version B (Type 1), Economy class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure trip
Meal: Dinner

A choice between [028] Chicken in curry with rice, cold soba, and pineapple pie for dessert OR
[029] Fried fish in sweet and sour sauce with vegetables and noodles, cold soba, and pineapple pie for dessert
Drinks: Orange juice, Soft drinks, Coffee, and Tea
Comments:
The food taste quite good, especially the chicken in curry sauce. However, some comments on the service. The meal in economy class wasn't serve at about the same time. Passengers sitting on the side of the right aisle are served first. I sat on the left side and got the food about 30 minutes after. It's quite irritating to see some else finished their meals while you haven't got yours yet.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
Camera brand & type: Samsung Digimax 350 SE

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Photo taken by: Vittavas Prathomvarl
Route: Bangkok (BKK) - Hong Kong (HKG), 30 August 2004
Ticket price: Round trip for 5,998 baht (144 USD.) for Economy class but was upgraded to business class from BKK-HKG
Flight duration: 2 hrs 28 mins
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 Version B (Type 1), Business class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure trip
Meal: Lunch

Starter: [027/028] Smoked chicken salad served with soft bun (not shown) and butter
Main: A choice between [030] Clear noodles fried with various vegetables in soy sauce with lamb OR
[029] Fish fillet with Indian rice and curry sauce
Dessert: [032] Chocolate brownie topped with apple slice served with fruits
[032] Japanese Tea
Drinks: Apple juice, Orange juice, or Soft drinks
Comments: The service on Gulf Air is much better than expected and the food is also excellent. Cleared noodles with lamb taste much better than it looks. Fish fillet is also superb. The chocolate brownie is extremely delicious. However, I don't like the way they split the coffee/tea service away from the dessert. My Japanese tea was served about 20 minutes after dessert, however it came in an extraordinary large cup.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Samsung Digimax 350 SE

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Photo taken by: Rwy31R
Route: Muscat-Abu Dhabi (return flight to Riyadh), 6 Sep 2004
Ticket price: Roundtrip ticket 547USD
Flight duration: 40min
Aircraft type and Class: 767-300, Economy Class
Trip: Leisure
Meal: Snack
Comments: For this short flight (on GF) I was surprised to be offered something, but then again for the price paid for the whole round trip journey it was the very least. We were offered a quick snack consisting of a sandwich, chocolate cake and water (as well as the basic juice and soft drink selection of which I chose OJ, not pictured). The sandwich was with Coleslaw and tomato!! A “coleslaw” sandwich?? Hmmmm! Which was not really filling the cold tasteless white bun. I will let the close up speak for itself! The cake was actually acceptable (chocolate cake vs. brownie). After that “delightful” experience, I requested some boiling water to have some Japanese Tea (My own, No surprise!) which was the best part of the flight. It’s interesting to mention that a flight attendant was insisting to another inquiring passenger that it was a cheese sandwitch! Brillient!
Rating: 2/10 (9/10 for the tea!!)
Camera: Canon Powershot S20

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Photo taken by: Airline Freak
Route: Frankfurt - Bahrain, 12 June 2004
Ticket price: I booked a whole arrangement incl. hotel
Flight duration: 05:40
Aircraft type & class: A330-200, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Lunch

Aperitif - salted nuts
Starter - salmon with some carrot-sellerie salat
Main course - chicken with indian spiced sauce, rice
Butter, packed Cheese, Crackers, 1 white/dark roll
Dessert - chocolate cake

Drinks:
Aperitif - Gin Tonic
Dessert - Tea
Comments: It tasted better than it looked. The main course was really tasty. I also liked that they split the dessert/tea,coffee service and served that extra after removing the dirty main course tray. It was the first time that I saw an explanation on the tray why plastic cutlery is used.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
Camera brand & type: Casio Exilim Z40

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Photo taken by: tuan
Route: Bangkok-Hongkong, GF150, 1 Dec 2003
Ticket price: 1575HKD
Flight duration: 2hour20mins
Aircraft type & class: A340-300, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: lunch
cold rice noodle, vagatable pie
Drink: all you want
Comments: eat or die
Rating 1-10 (worst-best):1

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Photo taken by: tuan
Route: Hongkong-Bangkok, GF151, 27 Nov 2003
Ticket price: 1575HKD
Flight duration: 2hour55mins
Aircraft type & class: A340-300, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: lunch
cold rice noodle, spring roll
Drink: all you want
Comments: eat or die
Rating 1-10 (worst-best):1

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Photo taken by: GERD
Route: Bangkok-Barhain, 14 Oct 2003
Ticket price: 1200 Euro incl. Hotel in Thailand
Aircraft type & class: A 340-300 Coach
Business or leisure trip: Privat
Meal: Dinner
Drink: All you want
Comments: Eat or die
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: GERD
Route: Frankfurt-Bahrhain, 29 Sep 2003
Ticket price: Trip incl.18 Day Hotel 1200.-Euro
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 Coach
Business or leisure trip: Privat
Meal: Lunch
Drink: All you want
Comments: Gulf is a 2 Star Airline, no more
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Hisham
Flying from: Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, 26 July 2003
Flight duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
Aircraft type & Class: A340-300 First Class
Meal Type: Light Meal - Cold chicken breast and prawns salad, seasonal salad, chocolate cake, fresh fruit and fruit flan
Drink: Diet Coke, Coffee
Comments: This was the first leg of a journey to Abu Dhabi. As the airline was not expecting any First Class passengers (I just showed up at the airport), there were no meals prepared for F Class, so they served me the Business Class meal. The chicken and prawn salad was decent but, considering this as First Class, the presentation could be improved.
Rating: 6

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Photo taken by: T. Gierse
Flying from: Bahrain to Frankfurt, 16 March 2003
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A330-200
Flight duration: 6,5 hrs.
Meal: Breakfast
Drink: Tea or coffee
Comments: "A small muffin after 5 hours with nothing is very bad for this airline, we even had no drinks all the time (but you could help yourself with water in the galley)"
Rating: 1

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Photo taken by: T. Gierse
Flying from: Abu Dhabi to Bahrain, 15 March 2003
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A330-200
Flight duration: 50 min.
Meal: Snack (hot) - Roll filled with vegetables
Drink: Tea or coffee
Comments: "O.K. for 50 mins. flight, tastes better than it looks"
Rating: 6

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Photo taken by: T. Gierse
Flying from: Frankfurt to Bahrain, 25 February 2003
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A330-200
Flight duration: 6 hrs.
Meal: Snack - salted almonds
Drink: whatever you want
Comments: the beer was good
Rating: 5

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Photo taken by: T. Gierse
Flying from: Frankfurt to Bahrain, 25 February 2003
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A330-200
Flight duration: 6 hrs.
Meal: Lunch (vegetarian) - peas,rice and spiced potatoes, greek salad and something sweet (green and grey)
Drink: whatever you want, I had french red wine
Comments: "very good exept of the sweets, the greek salad was the best "
Rating: 8

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Photo taken by: xaf2fe
Flying from: BAH to DXB , date: 26 Oct 02
Class: First
Meal: Good Question. Lunch I believe. What was in the meal? Another good question.
Drink: Water
Comments: "Where do I begin. Well, on the main plate you will find a small pizza type thing that wasn't too bad. Also a small veg-kabob. Then there are the two brown objects on the plate that, to this date, I have been unable to identify. Some kind of mystery meat. Cooked, very dry, and a very odd shape. In the top left corner a piece of cake with canned peaches on top."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I'll give it a 3, but I am being generous

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Photo taken by: Stephan Kroh
Flying from: Bangkok to Abu Dhabi, 25 October 2002
Class: Economy
Meal: Dinner - chicken, rice, tomato and cucumber salad, coconut pudding
Drink: Water
Comments: "Good service"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: V. V. Williams
Flying from: Bahrain to Muscat, Oman, 17 August 2002
Class: Coach
Meal: midnight snack - Arab-style lasagne -- not as much tomato sauce and meat filled -- plus dessert consisting of three different kinds of melon.
Drink: Usual selection - fruit juices, soft drinks, bottled water, and wines.
Comments: "Considering the hour -- the flight left Bahrain at 23:30 -- this was a substantial snack, though I'd have appreciated some bread. That said, the lasagne was quite tasty, and the melon was excellent. Note, also, that Gulf has not done away with metal knives, either! Hurrah!"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Sean O'Mara
Flying from: London to Bangkok, November 21, 2001
Class: Economy
Meal: Dinner - Chicken and carrots
Drink: Red Wine
Comments: Not bad at all
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5
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