Thursday, September 18, 2014

Singapore Airlines SQ 305 London to Singapore (Sep 2014)

I flew on SQ 305 from London back to Singapore.  It was a day flight.

Check out my flight video.  Some Star Wars characters make a special appearance.

Model of Emirates A380, on the way to Heathrow Airport.

Check in was very quick as the airport was relatively less crowded during this time.  The security lines were also very short and we cleared those in 15 minutes thereabouts.  This was the transit area.

There were still some empty seats.

After wandering around and picking up some stuff from Duty-Free, I still had a good 1 hour before it was time to board.  I decided to try out a restaurant.  This one looked very interesting so I decided to give it a go.

The menu.

Not very sure what to eat.  Originally I thought of getting a spaghetti.

Then, the Puccia Burgers caught my attention.  The red dotted box.  I ordered the Beef Puccia.

What about drinks?

A closer look at the drinks menu.


Oh yes, here is the beef puccia.  The description made me hungry.

Ah yes, the beers.  I got the Peroni.

This restaurant was located opposite Harrods, Terminal 3.  You can't miss it.

Here was my pint of Peroni.  Awesome stuff.  Very smooth.

Darth makes a surprise appearance!!

And here is the burger with fries.  The patty was done perfectly.  What a great burger!

And Darth had to appear with his storm-troopers.

That was my bill.

Time to go to the gate.  Didn't want to miss my flight home.

Here I was at the gate.  SQ 305.

The Qantas A380 at the other gate.

Oh, was this my seat?  Sadly no.  Business class seats, these are.  I am in Economy today.

I guess I had to make do with staring into the Business class cabin.

Drinks service.  I asked for the Singapore sling and a Diet Coke.

Oh!  May the Force be with you!

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Singapore Airlines - SQ 332 - Singapore to London, Economy Class (Sep 2014)

SQ 322 - Economy - Singapore to London
Airbus A380, window seat, lower deck.

On this flight, my Krisworld system did not work!  13 hour flight.  Well, thankfully this was a red-eye flight and I slept many more hours as a result.  The inflight supervisor tried his best to reboot the system but it just didn't work.  Ultimately, he gave me a $75 Kris-shop voucher as a service recovery. Better than nothing.

Flight video.


On this flight, I had a window seat.  See the A380 window seat is very spacious. 

This was one of the meals.

The dessert.

Breakfast (before landing)


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Friday, September 12, 2014

Mandarin Kitchen, Lobster Noodles, Bayswater London

Mandarin Kitchen, Bayswater London.

This rather famous restaurant is actually located neared to Queensway Tube station, but Bayswater Tube station is just a bit further down the road.  This place was really popular.  Despite being a weekday night, we had to wait for more than an hour before we got a table.  I guess being a rather big group didn't help.

This is the menu, all in pounds of course.









That was the menu.  Now we come to the food.   Before that, these apparatus were for the famous lobster noodle.

This was the lobster noodles, served first.  I think there were 3 lobsters here.  The server kindly portioned it out for all of us.


This was my portion.  Tasted pretty good, though not fantastic, in my opinion.  I think it all depends on whether you like lobster.  I am not really a big fan.

My portion from another angle, showing more lobster.

Those were the lobster heads.  Yes, there were three.

Here are the rest of the dishes.  Veggies.

Duck.

Some tofu.

I think this was pork rib.


Char siew.

The restaurant was very crowded on a weekday night.  Very popular. Overall, I thought the food was good, but not fantastic.  Try it for the lobster noodles, if you haven't tried that before.  The rest of the dishes were average.  The duck at Four Seasons was definitely a notch above this duck, though this duck wasn't bad.

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