Thinking about how we eat our meals the wrong way round, (click to read), I try to follow my own advice, and have good breakfast every day, and cut down, eat less in the evening, but this is difficult when you see wonderful desserts on the menu, chocolate gateau, ice cream, cheese and biscuits.

Yes I know I should eat fruits. But I am a fresh meat man.

Many of my breakfasts are taken in different hotels around the world, and I find it quite interesting to experience the cultures and what is offered in the different countries. Each country have their own traditions of what is to be eaten as the first meal of the day.

In England we would have an English breakfast, consisting of egg, bacon, mushrooms, fried tomatoes, sausage, backed beans, maybe black pudding, fried bread. We would also have a cereal, cornflakes with milk, ending with toast and marmalade or jam, washed down with and English cup of tea or coffee with milk.

                                                        

Yes, tea should be served with milk.

In China breakfast is noodles, spicy hot or not.

In Malaysia it seems to be what ever was left-over from the night before.

India I could only get scrambled egg and toast, with tea or coffee, the tea it seemed made with more milk than water. There never seems to be any orange juice, but local fruit juices. Sri Lanka seems to be the same, but loads of fruit especially papaya.

Germany tends to offer bread for their breakfast, so many varieties of breads, black bread that break the teeth, through to the French sticks, all served with a variety of sausage meats.

Italy seems to go with croissants, plain or filled with jams or custards, with slices of cheese or meat, some uncooked it seems to me. Cereals are served with yogurt rather than milk. Plus you get the Italian coffee, just enough to cover the bottom of the cup, and no milk.

              
                                 Where's the coffee?                                                         Morning coffee in Italy.

                                                                         Cooked meat?

Turkey, will serve an egg, scrambled or hard boiled, some form of processed meat in the form of a sausage served in a tomato sauce, slices of cucumber, cheese and more processed meat and olives, black or green. There always seems to be a French loaf and jam. To wash this down, there is the tea, Turkish tea, so strong that you have to water it down with 50% tea and 50% hot water.  

             

Otherwise it is a glass of tea and a bread roll sometimes containing a little amount of cheese or black paste, or just a simit bread ring covered with sesseme seeds. Very dry.

              

Each culture has its' own traditions, ways of eating and doing things. It is fun to experience these, but gets very confusing when entering hotel breakfast rooms, working out how and what to eat.