Singapore First - Houston to Moscow
Since SQ does not release First Class award seats to partners (except for the glitch last year), KrisFiyer First award seats are pretty easy to find on most routes. And IAH-DME is one route where they will release more than one Saver First seat. Award levels are mileage based and IAH-DME-IAH was a good deal at only 115K and $450 YQ per person for the roundtrip. And since SQ is an Amex MR and SPG partner, I transferred miles and booked everything online.
Singapore Airlines SQ 61
IAH-DME
777-300ER (77W)
4:40P-2:00P +1 (sked)
4:40P-1:21P +1 (actual)
November 5, 2013
Departed 7/8
Seats 2CD
It's been three long years since our last SQ flights, and it was like coming home. So great to be back on SQ. Despite being nearly 7 years old, the cabin still looked pretty new. Although it will be nice to see the refurbished cabin next year. And the crew was as wonderful as always, providing flawless service the entire trip.
Open bar at the gate and a choice of Dom or Krug. With macabus in mind, I asked our FA how many bottles of Dom were on board. "At least 10" as they double cater and still had lots left over from the inbound.
Once in the air, the usual G&T to start. Actually two of them.
Mrs. SFO decided that she wanted a little nap before dinner. Nice to have an LH-like seat and a bed, with the only empty seat right beside you.
No Book The Cook service x-IAH means no Lobster Thermidor. 
But a nice menu nonetheless with some interesting and delicious options.
But what's with the wine-list? Yikes. Other than the champers and the Shiraz, pretty disappointing.
Showtime! With a nearly full F cabin, four outstanding FAs worked dinner service.
The Dom was nice, but I prefer Krug. Other than a glass of the Shiraz, I stayed with the Krug most of the way.
Mrs. SFO started with the Oven baked warm little neck clams with herb butter and spinach.
I pulled a Short hair Francis move and asked to try both the clams and the Warm scallop with corn kernel-cherry tomatoes and tomato vinaigrette. Our FAs created my own combo plate. The clams were out of this world amazing.
The pea purée with cold white onion custard, cress and bacon was sensational.
Salad of baby spinach, arugula, green frisée and olive. Balsamic and vinaigrette dressing.
Mrs. SFO went with the Braised chicken with ginger and spring onions, seasonal vegetables and noodles. She loved it and cleaned her plate.
I was torn but in the end decided to try the Seared beef fillet with café de Paris butter, baby carrots, kenyan beans, bell pepper and fondant potatoes.
Unfortunately, it was well done and not very moist. Ah well, the Shiraz was good.
Back on par, the strawberry crepe surprise was delicious
And an assortment of cheeses to finish.
Time to relax. Watched a hilarious French comedy, De l'autre coté du périph, and a fascinated documentary on Moscow.
And listened to some of my eclectic music tastes.
I can't remember exactly when but probably 4 hours into our 10:20 flight, I decided to get some sleep. Went to the lav and came back to my beautifully turned down bed. Who needs Ambien when you have a bottle of Krug? I slept like a baby for more than 4 hours until our lovely FA gently woke me at T-90. Wow, I could get used to that. 
While Mrs. SFO passed, I took one for the team and decided to have some breakfast.
The Pork congée was delicious but way too much to finish just a few hours after a big dinner.
Aw... a good-bye gift from our FA.
A little bumpy on the final but we touched down smoothly and nearly 40 minutes early to an unseasonably warm +15 degree day. What an amazing flight. Yes, the cabin and IFE can use a little updating but the inflight service from our wonderful SQ crew was simply incredible.