Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.
Italian food on a low-cost Asian carrier? I’ve got to hand it to Air Asia…the chicken lasagna pleasantly surprised me.
Ambrosial (adjective): exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
I was flying from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur and the flight departed at 11:45pm. I know…I’m strange. I should have just used the 4.5 hour flight to try to sleep.
But I wanted to sample the buy-on-board food offered by Air Asia. Furthermore, it was less than $4 (ordered and prepaid on the Air Asia website). Even if I ended up not being hungry, it was worth it to reserve a snack in case I was.
After takeoff, flight attendants first distributed pre-ordered meals. Everything is a la carte on Air Asia, but meals come with a bottle of water.
Lifting off the foil cover, the smell of melted cheese and tomato sauce wafted up. It looked good..but how would it taste?
Turns out, very well. It was not like I was eating homemade lasagna in Italy, but as far as airline lasagnas go, it was certainly one of the better. In fact, I probably would have eaten at least a couple additional helpings had it been offered.
So in short, the lasagna is safe on Air Asia X. Maybe next time I’ll branch out and try something different, but this turned out to be a very good choice.
Air Asia thinks its food is so tasty it plans to open up a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur to serve its buy-on-board meals. That’s the impetus for this article. And I’ve got to say, I’d be willing to try several Air Asia dishes.
You can read the full flight review below. You can view the current Air Asia menus here, which do not currently have the above lasagna, but rotate often.
> Read More: AirAsia X Economy Class from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur Review
The food on AirAsia is pretty impressive in general although I’ve never tried the lasagna. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll try it next time.
I was really surprised AirAsia served a free meal on my HKT-SIN flight 2 weeks ago, and it was actually pretty good. Some kind of Asian chicken with rice and vegetables.
Likely it’s included in your fare…for the cheapest fares meal is never included.
References from classical Greece to Air Asia food…truly a first. But in fact,I agree: it’s okay: they serve stuff that’s hard to get wrong. Often airlines try too hard ( or conversely don’t try at all). It’s common to see people eating food on Air Asia, even though most of the sectors are only an hour or two. That’s a good indication that the food is okay, given that it has to be purchased.
The more I read this blog the more I love it! Every other day I learn a new sophisticated and eloquent vocabulary word
Indeed. The ‘meals to buy’ on AirAsia are generally tasting well and of decent quality.
And service is always cheery and pleasant.
The ‘service and food’ experience on AirAsia would be a good initial benchmarking anchor for AA F&C to try to get to in let say the next 5 years. Ambitious, but not impossible.
The quality of food on Air Asia always amazes me along with the friendly service proving that cheap doesn’t have to be nasty in the way that Western lo-costs make it nasty deliberately.
The food has to be decent enough as it’s has to be purchased. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to sell another one in the future