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What do you need for breakfast on the road?
I'm a big fan of breakfast - a big Western breakfast, with eggs and bacon and toast and coffee. And my friend once pointed out after we emerged from our guesthouse in Nha Trang, Vietnam at 4pm after a wild Halloween night that no matter what time of day it is, I need to eat breakfast-y food for my first meal. When I researched Thailand for Lonely Planet last fall, I ate Thai all the time despite the availability of Western food in tourist towns - except for breakfast. The one or two times I actually craved a Thai breakfast (a savory bowl of rice soup with meat) made me feel that I was finally getting under the skin of the country. I mentioned my need for eggs and toast to another traveler, who said it was that way for many other travelers she knew.
How about you, reader-traveler? Does your body crave the protein, carbs, and salt from eggs, toast, and bacon (or whatever your particular breakfast favorite is), or are you able to dive into the country's breakfast you're visiting?
Filed under: Asia, North America, Thailand, Vietnam
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike Jul 10th 2009 5:47PM
I work for a large multinational company. whenever I talk to our staff overseas it seems consistent no matter what country you are in and how long you've lived there you want to do breakfast from whatever country you are from. I'm Korean American so I get confused sometimes I can want to eat Korean or Asian for breakfast and other times I want my bacon and eggs and pancakes. Living in Europe for a summer I hated breakfast. Hard boiled eggs, cold cuts ugh. The croissants were OK but otherwise I was glad to get back to the US.
JB Jul 11th 2009 2:55AM
Coffee and a bun (croissant, bagel, tuna croquet, hard roll, pork bun, watercress buns at Holiday Inn Macau yum yum, Chinese steamed cake, whatever is local). No matter where I am in the world, that's it.
Life is too short to squander fat-laden calories on breakfast, especially in the face of such intriguing international cuisine.
Zach Jul 13th 2009 5:09PM
I need some kind of caffeine, but short of that I love adapting to my surroundings and eating whatever the locals do. After my trip to Germany, I started adding deli meats into my breakfast menu.