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United added “Signature Dishes” from its hubs in 2024. I have tasted most of them and I’m always excited when a new one hits the menu. I’ve shared my reviews of other meals including Los Angeles (here and here), Washington DC (here), Houston (here), Newark (here and here), Denver (here) and Chicago (here, here, and here). Today, while flying from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) I had the misfortune to taste the latest San Francisco Signature Dish.
Like all of the cities’ Signature Dishes, this one needs to be preordered in advance of the flight. The newest Signature Dish for San Francisco is Kogi Glazed Pork. This is described as “kogi glazed pork with Jasmine rice, blanched broccoli, and kogi sticky spicy sauce.” I had high hopes after how phenomenal the Korean Glazed BBQ Short Rib was out of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, this meal is disgusting.
The kogi glazed pork was served with a nice salad and Magnolia Bakery’s Chocolatey Hazel Nut Swirl pudding. Bread was brought around from a basket with two choices offered.
I took one bite of the pork and spit it out. It was 100% fat with zero meat. The sauce was minimal and the rice was barely cooked. The dish said that it came with broccoli, but it was actually bok choy. The picture looks like bok choy (I’m assuming this was written in error). The bok choy was a pale yellow color and looked nowhere near as vibrant as the stock photo in the menu.
United is currently serving Magnolia Bakery’s Chocolatey Hazelnut Swirl Pudding and it’s also pretty awful. I did not even try it today after how much I disliked it yesterday. Magnolia Bakery’s Red Velvet Pudding is also too sweet and nowhere nearly as good as the original, but edible. This one was just yuck. I hope United switches back to the original and stops with these artificial flavors.
Anthony’s Take: I will never be ordering this one again. I have nothing nice to say about it. I’m hoping this was a blip and not a sign of things to come with catering.
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