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I think the trick to good airline food in economy is to specify a dietary restriction. I have been doing this for a while now and the end result is that you typically get slightly better food and you definitely get it faster no matter where in the plan you sit.

Also it turns out that you can have asian style food on most routes in the world even if it's typically not offered otherwise.

(Experience comes from mostly Lufhansa, Austrian and Swiss flights)

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My wife and I use this trick as well. We still laugh at the slightly confused look and comment from a male Lufthansa flight attendant. When serving our food before everyone else, he looked down at the label and asked "Hindu?". Lufthansa has some of the best airline food I've had.

I once witnessed airline not having food with dietary restriction in stock. They said sorry to the guy, but he was starving entire 11h+ flight

Never happened to me. When they don't have my preferred meal selection they usually offer me vegan or vegetarian food.

Vegan suits everyone, and it simplifies things for the airline and the cabin crew. On a flight from New York I requested a vegetarian meal. The passenger next to me was Muslim, and he requested a halal meal. We compared what we got,and they were both the same. If there were any Jewish or Hindu passengers on the flight that's what they'd have got too. And if they simply ran out of meat dishes, they would just apologize and offer the vegan dish instead.

The first rule of ordering a special meal is bring your own food just in case they don't have it. The cabin crew can usually scrounge up something if necessary as well.

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