If you’re traveling overseas with Singapore Airlines (SIA) anytime in the month of July, you can satiate your local food fix on board the flight itself without having to run to the nearest hawker upon your return.
To celebrate SIA’s 70th anniversary — and as part of a collab with the Singapore Food Festival and the Singapore Tourism Board — the national carrier will offer 18 local favorites on its flights from July 1 to 31, with dishes chosen via an online public poll conducted in March this year.
For those lucky enough to luxuriate in Suites, First Class or Business Class, you’ll get servings of chicken rice, laksa, carrot cake, roti prata, fish ball kway teow soup, nasi briyani, nasi lemak, Nonya assam fish, Peranakan Hokkien mee soup, bak kut teh, and Teochew bak chor mee.
As for the rest of us in Economy and Premium Economy (hey, not all of us can spare the change), the options available include sliced fish bee hoon, char siew rice, roasted chicken rice, Hainanese pork chop, beef rendang with turmeric rice, and gulai kambing with rice.
If you think all this sounds familiar, it’s probably ’cause some of these plates are already available for those who pre-order through SIA’s Book the Cook service. But now everyone will get a taste when the dishes make it to the airline’s standard in-flight menus in July.
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