Breakfasts for the European and American populations are categorized according to the content of the food into continental breakfast (English: Continental breakfast), British and Irish breakfast, and American breakfast (English: American breakfast). The concept comes from England, is the British in the English context refers to the continental European countries of the breakfast way. However, in reality, breakfasts in continental countries are also different in various ways, so the concept of continental breakfast does not cover breakfasts in all continental European countries.
The term "continental breakfast" has evolved over time to mean a "simple breakfast", so that in many star hotels and restaurants, the concept of "continental breakfast" is used to refer to the concept of "continental breakfast" in the menu. Therefore, in many star hotels and western restaurants, the concept of "continental breakfast" in the menu is a simple breakfast that only provides coffee, tea, milk, butter, jam, bread and juice. This type of breakfast does not offer cereal porridge, meat, sausage or eggs. In star-rated hotels, the American breakfast is defined as "complex breakfast" or "full breakfast". The British and Irish breakfast is only popular in England, Ireland and Wales because of its special food content.
Cereal porridge (cereal porridge cooked or soaked in milk or water) is widely eaten for breakfast in continental countries because it is promoted as a healthy food.
In star hotels, continental breakfast foods include: coffee or tea, butter, jam, bread and juice. Among the bread items, there are usually Belgian waffles, Danish-style sweet breads, French croissants, English round breads, German savory breads, and sliced bread.
And the European continent countries breakfast also has its own characteristics. The following are introduced one by one:
1) German and Austrian breakfast:
Standard configuration: coffee, bread, eggs (boiled eggs), sausage, ham, bacon.
German and Austrian hotels can also provide "breakfast in bed", the content and restaurant breakfast is similar.
Breakfasts in Europe and the United States are somewhat similar, and in Germany there is not much difference, there is time to go to the cafeteria, but it is more expensive. Eat more at home, jam spread bread (more salty bread), fried eggs, coffee, juice, vegetable salad, fruit salad optional. There's a lot of meat, sausage or bacon on the table and it's all heavier in flavor.
2) French breakfast: there is a cappuccino-like coffee café au lait, hot chocolate, slices of French bread sticks, croissants, and a traditional bread called pains aux raisins, which are sweet rolls with raisins.
3) Italian breakfast: drinking lattes, cappuccinos, bread and rolls. Italians also love to gather in coffee shops for breakfast, so coffee shops have become a place for people to socialize. The United States is a country of immigrants, so the American breakfast brings together the essence of the breakfast of European countries, the content of the more known as "complex breakfast" also called "full breakfast" (full breakfast).
American breakfast, in addition to the same items as continental breakfast, such as coffee or tea, butter, jam, bread and juice, but also includes British and Irish breakfast in the boiled soy beans, German breakfast in the sausage, and cereal, cereal porridge, eggs, meat and other food.
Cereal: generally refers to puffed cereals that have been pre-cooked, including: shredded wheat, whole-wheat cones, cornflakes, oatmeal, and so on. To eat, simply mix the cereal with milk (hot or cold), or mix the cereal with fruit or yogurt and stir slightly to serve.
Cereal porridge: generally refers to cereals that need to be cooked, such as oatmeal, which must be cooked with water and some fresh milk poured in when it comes out of the pot.
Egg foods include:
1) Poached eggs: whole boiled eggs with skin.
2) Poached Eggs: Crack the egg shell and let the whole egg poach into the boiling water
2) Fried Eggs with Butter
3) Scrambled Eggs with Butter
4) Egg Rolls: Crack the eggs and spread them into a hot oiled pan just as you would spread them in a Chinese dish, spread them out in an egg pancake, add various crumbled bits of cheese, mushrooms, onion, peppers, tomatoes and so on, and then Roll up the omelette, turning it slightly and pressing it into a roll.
Meat is mainly ham and bacon. Standard: soy milk, doughnuts, wontons, buns, pancakes (north); river noodles, siu mai (south).
Chinese breakfasts seem simpler in the north, but have actually been quite rich, and what we've had has been quite tasty. There are local specialties, buns and soymilk are popular across the country, while southerners have the habit of having morning tea. There are also places where people often eat noodles, various kinds of river noodles and rice noodles with heavier flavors, sour and spicy or spicy. There are shadows of southern China
Standard: Thai rice noodles
When traveling to Thailand, you can only eat star breakfast in the hotel, the more upscale hotels, the more similar the breakfast, are bread, fruits, fruit juice and so on. And Thai people often eat breakfast is a small stall store beef rice noodles, there is a special sticky sauce, pouring after the delicious. There are also those who like to eat soup rice in the morning, with salted vegetables and crushed peanuts, which is closer to the taste of southern China's Minnan region. Standard configuration: milk, rice, pickles and miso soup
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2. Platos Típicos
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3. Moroccan tagine
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4. Ful Medames
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5. Khichdi
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6. Appam
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7. Natto Miso Soup with Rice
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8. Coconut rice
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9. Turkish Tarhana
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10. Boerewors sausages
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