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Ärende: Asia trip 262
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Breakfast was notable for what might be described as
negative umami - blander food I've not tasted out of a
hospital, from the veal sausage to the green tea coconut
bread that failed to live up to its promise. I ended up
with a rather ordinary donut and a scoop of Chinese
sausage salad, which I belatedly found off in the corner,
perhaps being saved for the staff snack later on.

A taxi to the airport was B150.

Even though our flight was domestic, the CIQ program allowed
us to exit Thailand here and avoid the lines at BKK, so we
went to the international area to do that.

A small but friendly Royal Orchid, offering the acrid but
serviceable Regency brandy and a quite nice selection of
pastries. Chinese-style steamed buns from a factory called
CpVam; these were standard but beat the pants off what the
hotel had offered.

TG 103 CNX BKK 1010 1130 744 14AB

The flight attendant took a shine to me, kind of flattering.

Lunch consisted of an acceptable chicken ballottine en
croute with a salad of red kidney beans, peas, potato, and
cheese. A jiggly agar dessert was tasteless but amusing.
No alcohol on this flight.

We parked at C, which is in the international area and had
to take buses to the domestic area, and then CIQ dumped us
off between C and D, with a nearby Royal Silk Lounge, whose
friendly attendant pointed out that we were entitled to a
complimentary massage. Lilli took advantage of this, while
I took copious advantage of the hot buffet offering, which
was ground beef with basil and chile, quite hot spicy and
fairly delicious.

No wine but lots of beers, sticky liqueurs, and whisk(e)ys,
of which I had a tot of Mekhong and numerous glasses of
excellent orange juice.

Lilli came back reinvigorated by her massage but then went
off hoping that O'Malley's, which we'd noticed outside,
would offer a burger; it didn't, but there was a (her words)
"full American food court" nearby, where she enriched the
meat monarch with the last of my baht.

TG 409 BKK SIN 1635 1955 773 20EF
was TG 407 BKK SIN 1350 1710 772

They'd cancelled our flight and booked us on the next one,
which was fine as it was newer equipment and an interesting
and extremely spacious configuration with all window seats
singles and the middles alternating two singles on the
aisles and a pair in the middle like so:

X..X
.XX.
X..X
.XX.

Lots of room.

Rather bad entertainment, so after getting another dose of
Helene Grimaud I listened to Hilary Hahn's encores, all of
which were boring except for one written by this guy I used
to know forty years ago, David Del Tredici.

Drink snacks were cashew nuts mixed with fava beans, sort
of interesting.

For lunch they gave me scallop and shrimp Thermidor, the
shellfish kind of tasteless, the preparation okay, and some
potato preparation that tasted like perfume, broccoli on
the side.

I passed on dessert, which was supposed to be banana caramel
cake but again was some agar thing.

The flight was too short.

We alit and took the Skytrain to T2, where the transfer desk
dealt with us in pleasant but inefficient manner, and then
to the Silver Kris, where I tanked up on a rather bad but
not as bad Courvoisier XO. The food again was very
unappetizing though abundant, a lot of bad steam table
versions of Asian and western classics.
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