Food Galore Over SYD, with GA as the Highlight...

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Now it's 13:18...





They're in the holding position for a while, waiting for this Virgin Blue landed...














After that Virgin Blue began to vacate the runway, this "kampung guy"'s planes began to enter the runway....

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Now this aircraft was already in position... ready to roam to ride the wind to fly to the blue sky...









Yaaakkkkk..... lift offfff......

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The beautiful SYD airport scenery from above...

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The SYD surrounding area seems become smaller and smaller as they flew higher and higher...



















Now back to the cabin...






Waiting until they reached the cruising altitude, this "kampung guy" stretched out and made him comfortable in cradle position...



After the seat belt sign was turned off, the FA began moving around the cabin, preparing for snack time...
Lunch would be serve at mid flight, about 2 hours after take off...


So... how was this "kampung guy" experience with this GA inflight service?
Was it really a great one?
What about the other cabin features of this aircraft?

Just stay tuned for the last installment of this "kampung guy" adventure...

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Glad to know that GA is doing well on its Oz routes now. The load was very light early last year when I took the same flights. But on a high note, the service was impeccable and.....this may upset some "die-hard" SQ fans, it was in fact better than SQ (well...at least in Y)

Can't wait for the rest of your TR...great TR btw, as usual!

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Glad to know that GA is doing well on its Oz routes now. The load was very light early last year when I took the same flights. But on a high note, the service was impeccable and.....this may upset some "die-hard" SQ fans, it was in fact better than SQ (well...at least in Y)

Can't wait for the rest of your TR...great TR btw, as usual!

Thanks mate...
I'm really agree with you...
I think GA is really worth to try now...
Service wise, it's quite (or even very) good...

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While watching this "Johnny English" movie,



the FA approached him, and with a gentle voice and a big smile, she's offering him canape and choice of after take off drink...

This "kampung guy" asked for another Martebe Juice...

Here are the canape and the after take off drink... and also a bowl of another GA's signature, the delicious mixed peanuts...
Btw, the table came from the side of the arm chair, just like the TG's one..













With those nice snacks, he continued enjoying the movie....





Time flew... in no time, it's time for lunch now...

The FAs came on both aisles, served the both aisles simultaneous with their trolleys...

They helped each pax with the table, and put a table cloth on it...
And then put the array of appetizer, salad and bread's plate (without a tray)...
The bread came from the bread basket with array of choices...
The salad sauce was poured later, with a portion and option just as the pax wanted...

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The butter was in regular round shape one, not the beautiful flower shape just like the ex CGK's one...




The FAs were in no rush... they gave the pax a perfect time before they clean up the appetizer plate and the salad bowl...

And then they came again with the main courses trolleys...






For this flight, GA offered 3 choices of main courses

Indonesian style spicy Balinese Chicken.
Western style beef fillet with gravy sauce.
Chinese style fish with oyster sauce...

This "kampung guy" opted the first one...
And it's turn out to be very delicious one...
And the portion was very adequate... much-much better than the portion he had had on the same flight two years ago...

And another FA came with wines basket, offering the pax the wines they had on board...
This "kampung guy" asked for the chardonnay to accompany his meal...








The service was never in rush...
The FAs gave perfect time for pax to enjoy each course of the meal....

Some beautiful scenery of the out back land out side the window while this "kampung guy" enjoying his meal...




Done with the main course, now it's time for the cheese...
Well, it's not artisan cheeses, but it's still OK...
GA has room for improvement in this cheese section...

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And for the last course: dessert....
This raspberry cake was so superb....
The cake... the sauce... So delicious....
Never imagined before that GA would have this kind of dessert...
An outstanding dessert...






Burrbbbb.....Pardon him...
He was so satisfy with the lunch....

While cleaned up the table, the FA's offering him for coffee or tea...
She was so proud with GA's signature coffee, the "Kopi Tubruk", so she suggested this coffee to this "kampung guy"....
Came from "kampung", off course he knew about this very delicate delicious coffee, so he was happily accepted the offer....

Knew it's need some time to prepare this special coffee, he went to the toilet first...

Ladies and gentlemen, here are the toilet.... please enjoy..

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And here are some shoots of the cabin...
29/36 on business class... not bad...
All front cabin's seats were occupied...






And the 7 empty seats were on the second cabin...



When he came back to his seat, the "Kopi Tubruk" has albeady on his table along with a Ferrero Rocher Chocolate...

OK... lets we talk about this "Kopi Tubruk"..

Kopi Tubruk is an Indonesian-style coffee where coarse coffee grounds are boiled along with solid sugar (a lot of it), resulting in a thick, mud like (light thin mud) concoction...
To drink it, the coffee need to be left for a while, until thick coffee coarse powder settled to the bottom, and left the dark, sweet light concoction in the upper part.
Kopi tubruk literally means “collision coffee”. The concoction can be found in many parts of Indonesia, particularly in Java and Bali. Kopi tubruk is the simplest recipe for preparing coffee. To make a cup, one needs to add two teaspoons of ground coffee and sugar according to one’s taste.
Next, pour in boiling water, and let it “cook” the coffee for a while until most of the grounds have settled to the bottom.
The key to proper kopi tubruk is in the water. Hot water from water dispensers is often not hot enough to cook the coffee grounds. Uncooked grounds will remain floating on the surface.
And the GA's FA made a damn good one...






Knowing that this kind of coffee cannot be drank immediately, must waited for the coffee powder to swift descent to the bottom, he took the pictures of the seat... (it's a opportunity while his neighbor went to the toilet... )









Even though the bed only angle lay flat, but somehow this bed felt more comfortable than the flat bed on the inbound flight...

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Now back to the seat... (the neighbor has came back from the toilet... )
It's time to relax and enjoying the "kopi tubruk"...




Look at the thick coarse coffee powder residue at the bottom of the cup...
That the thing that made this coffee so special....
Strong, sweet and bitter... A truly nice coffee experience...




Another cabin views with mood lighting ON...
And with cabin crew that constantly patrolled the cabin, caring for the pax's needs …









GA's using Nestlé’s product for the bottled water...





One nice feature of this seat is this extra seat controller button...
Very useful when you're in sleeping position...
No needs to wake up just to reach the controller at the arm chair...

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Now the plane flew over deep down the middle of Australian Continent... around Alice Spring I guess...




With some beautiful outback scenery...

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Now the cabin light got dimmed....
And the baby at the row 1JK began to cry...
Luckily not for long... the grandma was so expert to calm down the crying baby...







And this what the IFE on row 1 looked like...





Now it's snack time...
This time when the FA came with snack basket, this "kampung guy" asked for the cup noodles...

Yes, maybe it looks like cheap, just like Y class cup noodles...
But a cup noodles is always a cup noodles... it always taste great at 30,000 feet...
Accompanied by Martebe, it's taste greater...

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The seat controller was nicely glowing in the dark...





About 1h30m before landing, FAs server the ice cream...
It's Maggie Beer...
I'm not familiar with this brand...
Is this a premium brand ice cream?
Or just a regular ice cream like Movenpick?

It's taste quite good... with the tinny vanilla bean's seeds...






And then the immigration officer came along with their trolley, stamped pax's passport, and give them clearance card to be used at CGK later...





This immigration onboard was a very useful service that GA has provided.
With this service, pax could avoid the nightmare of the immigration line at CGK...



Some nice views from his window...

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Their position now above Java Island, near the city of Bandung...









The plane continued to fly to the north, to the Gulf of Jakarta...
And turned around for final approach...







Outside views....









Approaching CGK.....