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1. Thatcher
   American Abroad

   @AmericanAbroad

   

   1:25 AM EST ⋅ Mar 10, 2021

   Scott Wilmot (View Comment):

   I worked in China off and on from 1983-1997. One of the great perks was staying in fantastic hotels in Hong Kong. One of the most spectacular breakfast buffets ever was at the Island Shangri-La. It had everything from all of the British favorites listed by others, to dim sum and char-sui pork buns and pork fried rice, to Swiss muesli, and anything else you can imagine.

   I didn’t much go for the hundred year old eggs served on the train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou but the congee was pretty good.

   Chinese breakfast is fantastic.  Love the congee; we call it jok in Thai.  I call it the “oatmeal of the East.”  And the buns are to die for, until you get one of those buns filled with boiling hot juice which either burns your mouth or stains your shirt. 

2. Coolidge
   Marjorie Reynolds

   @MarjorieReynolds

   1:45 AM EST ⋅ Mar 10, 2021

   I had a Korean housemate years ago who was in Dublin to learn English. She spent Christmas with my family in Galway and after the Christmas Day dinner which involved mashed potatoes roast potatoes, ordinary boiled spuds for older people and potato croquettes for my toddler nephew (which we all ate too) she announced that she was tired of potatoes. 
   I’d forgotten all about this until I went to visit her in Incheon the following year and every morning her mother left 2 cold boiled potatoes on my plate  for breakfast and nothing else.

3. Coolidge
   Stad

   @Stad

   5:50 AM EST ⋅ Mar 10, 2021

   Scott Wilmot (View Comment):
   The wife and I honeymooned in Tahiti – we spent time on 4 different islands and the highlight was our last stop at the Hotel Bora Bora. I would have Eggs Benedict every morning there while overlooking the most beautiful water you have ever seen.

   Sounds fabulous!

   The Eggs Benedict is another breakfast favorite, but not every place makes it.  When my wife had to work in Florida for a few months, I would take our girls down to visit every other weekend.  The last morning before she moved back, we ate at a Bob Evans restaurant, and Eggs Benedict was on the menu.  My wife ordered it.  It looked okay, but after the first bite , a puzzled look came over her face.  I asked her what was wrong, and she said it wasn’t hollandaise on top.  I asked her what she thought it was, and she replied in her best Deep South accent, “Yaller gravy.”

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   Giulietta

   @giuliettachicago

   4:30 PM EST ⋅ Mar 10, 2021

   Gary McVey (View Comment):

   Hotel breakfasts in the USSR in the Eighties. Pancakes Russian style, oatmeal, three choices of fish, hardboiled eggs, yogurt, pickles, sausage, stewed tomatoes, incredibly strong coffee, sweet tea, or vodka shots. You left the breakfast room ready to face the day, or fall face down in the snow, or both. Needless to say, the average Russian citizen didn’t have that range of breakfast options. By common agreement of the people I knew there, coffee, yogurt, and yes, vodka were well known staples of the morning meal. Very little citrus juice, though; the Soviet Union didn’t have many territories warm enough, and imports were expensive, so juice glasses were tiny.

   What’s a Russian-style pancake?! This grabbed me immediately. Please explain!

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   Giulietta

   @giuliettachicago

   4:38 PM EST ⋅ Mar 10, 2021

   Christmas Breakfast is the best breakfast. My father makes a beautiful challah the night before and the next morning there is a basket of challah and other homemade bread slices, butter, different jams, fresh scrambled eggs, sausages, hot cocoa, coffee and orange juice. Part of the whole thing though is the nostalgia and sense of occasion. Aside from the challah which is special, the food is simple but delicious and my mother always sets the table beautifully because Christmas Day breakfast is a proper meal that we all share together before we open the presents.

6. Coolidge
   Stad

   @Stad

   6:00 AM EST ⋅ Mar 11, 2021

   Giulietta (View Comment):

   Gary McVey (View Comment):

   Hotel breakfasts in the USSR in the Eighties. Pancakes Russian style, oatmeal, three choices of fish, hardboiled eggs, yogurt, pickles, sausage, stewed tomatoes, incredibly strong coffee, sweet tea, or vodka shots. You left the breakfast room ready to face the day, or fall face down in the snow, or both. Needless to say, the average Russian citizen didn’t have that range of breakfast options. By common agreement of the people I knew there, coffee, yogurt, and yes, vodka were well known staples of the morning meal. Very little citrus juice, though; the Soviet Union didn’t have many territories warm enough, and imports were expensive, so juice glasses were tiny.

   What’s a Russian-style pancake?! This grabbed me immediately. Please explain!

   It’s a blini:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blini

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   Giulietta

   @giuliettachicago

   8:45 AM EST ⋅ Mar 11, 2021

   Stad (View Comment):

   Giulietta (View Comment):

   Gary McVey (View Comment):

   Hotel breakfasts in the USSR in the Eighties. Pancakes Russian style, oatmeal, three choices of fish, hardboiled eggs, yogurt, pickles, sausage, stewed tomatoes, incredibly strong coffee, sweet tea, or vodka shots. You left the breakfast room ready to face the day, or fall face down in the snow, or both. Needless to say, the average Russian citizen didn’t have that range of breakfast options. By common agreement of the people I knew there, coffee, yogurt, and yes, vodka were well known staples of the morning meal. Very little citrus juice, though; the Soviet Union didn’t have many territories warm enough, and imports were expensive, so juice glasses were tiny.

   What’s a Russian-style pancake?! This grabbed me immediately. Please explain!

   It’s a blini:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blini

   Ah I know about that:) It took me by surprise to hear it called a Russian pancake for some reason!