The husband and I flew to London a couple of weeks ago on Singapore Airlines. I never realised this until I got lounge access - that getting to an airport early or having a flight delay usually causes stress because drinks/food are expensive or because there are limited entertainment options. The stress is instantly eliminated once you realise that free food/drinks/magazines are totally within your reach.
I've passed through the KF Gold Lounge at T3 so many times over the past 3 years but have never really stopped to photograph it - it's normally super packed with people at 8am. At 11am, we were practically the only ones in there.
Our private lounge.
The food, unfortunately, is usually never very exciting. They normally have porridge, chwee kuay, har kau and siew mai in the morning, or omelettes and baked beans. There's the usual array of cold sandwiches and cup noodles too.
They also had tomato soup, which was pretty decent.
Enroute to the boarding gate, my husband asked: "what if someone walks to the end of the building, and when questioned, says that he's looking for the A380 boarding gate?" (*groan)
Fortunately the people at the lounge were much nicer to us. There was this funky water wall and model of an A380 to greet us. Erm. Very 1990s.
On the way back at Heathrow, it was the most amazing feeling as we breezed through our check in within 3 minutes - waiting in the economy class check in queue would have taken us at least 30 mins. Never mind the extremely haughty Singapore Airlines staff at the line asking us in the most condescending manner (imagine this said in a pseudo British accent by an older Asian lady): "Business Class?" Dressed in our inflight best of tshirts, jeans and sneakers, we were lost for words - in my naivety, I definitely wasn't expecting this level of arrogance from SQ staff, a foreigner, employed in this service job courtesy of my government and my air ticket expenses?! I could only mutter: "erm, Gold?" after which she dismissed us towards the counter with an imperious wave of her hand. Sigh.
The spread was quite interesting. In addition to the breads and cereals, there was also hot food (a really good grilled panini, which I forgot to photograph), as well as baked beans and scrambled eggs.
I was craving Chinese food. So happy to see chicken porridge on the menu!
They had some rather interesting yogurts.
And a pretty good array of cheeses.
I decided to try the yogurt with muesli.
Wasn't too bad at all.
This was pretty much most of the spread.
Now to the inflight food - I've complained previously about the SIN-PKG routes where they serve really crap food. But either they've improved the SATS kitchen, or they just torture those going to China. We actually had very decent food on board.
We had a cut of beef for lunch on the way to London.
This was a seafood pasta salad - surprisingly refreshing.
The beef was tender, and the gravy was actually not too salty. I was pleasantly surprised.
Before landing, they served a hot cheesy pasta.
On the flight back from London, they had beef rendang on board.
The rendang mixture was actually rather authentic.
The husband had a chicken with roasted vegetables that he enjoyed as well.
On hindsight I think the food wasn't all that brilliant after all - just that it surpassed my expectations :)
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