Qatar Airways has announced it is celebrating the Thai and Sri Lankan new year on select flights and in the Al Safwa First Class and Al Mourjan Business lounges.
The Thai New Year will be celebrated today and tomorrow on select inbound flights from Bangkok, Krabi and Phuket, in both premium and economy cabins. The menus for Thailand flights will contain a specially selected main course and one dessert — both prepared by Qatar Airways’ top chefs.
The menu will feature traditional Thai dishes such as grilled prawns marinated in garlic and coriander with tom yam fried rice, stir-fried vegetables and tom yam sauce, mango with sticky rice and pandan coconut sauce, as well as a traditional sweet.
Al Safwa First Class lounge will offer a selection of dishes in celebration of the Thai New Year tomorrow and on Saturday.  The menu will feature some of Thailand’s famous dishes such as tom yum soup, som tum, beef skewers, vermicelli prawns, satay gai and more. Dessert options will include coconut and jaggery pancake with banana smoothie and mango nigiri with pandan-flavoured coconut cream.
Al Mourjan Business Class lounge will also offer a wide variety of dishes, such as tom yum, pad Thai, beef stir fry and basil fried rice.
The Sri Lankan New Year will be celebrated tomorrow on board inbound and outbound Colombo flights in business and economy cabins as well as in the Al Safwa and Al Mourjan lounges.
The Sri Lankan in-flight menus will feature dishes such as fish ambulthiyal with pol roti, kiribath, spicy potato, lunu miris and sambol for breakfast services, and Sri Lankan devilled chicken with vegetable fried rice, dhal curry, spicy potatoes with bibikkan dessert, served for lunch/dinner, in addition to traditional sweets.
Today, the lounges will offer a variety of dishes such as mulligatawny soup, fish cutlets, cashew maluwa and a selection of Sri Lankan sweets.
All dishes are freshly prepared every day, giving passengers a taste of their favourite destinations, the statement notes.