Bana-ppetit! Breakfast is served

Food
26 Feb 2023 • 10:17 PM MYT
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A BUSINESS class passenger flying with Japan Airlines (JAL) has recounted her surprise after being served a vegan breakfast comprising a banana and nothing else.

“Before take-off today, my flight attendant confirmed that I ordered VGML (Vegetarian Vegan Meal) and that my breakfast was a banana, by which I mistakenly assumed she meant that breakfast included a banana,” netizen Kris_Chari said in a post on FlyerTalk, a forum for air travellers, recently.

"When she served the banana after take-off, I thought it was just an underwhelming appetiser, but it was in fact the entire meal service.

"It was a really good banana – one of the best I've had recently – but it still seems more appropriate as a snack. Is catering out of CGK typically this underwhelming?"

She also noted that the fruit was served with chopsticks, which she said was “cute”.

This happened on a flight from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) to Tokyo's Narita Airport.

After the somewhat underwhelming breakfast, the passenger claimed she was then served 'barely seasoned spaghetti' for lunch.