The Best Breakfasts from Around the World
I’m a big fan of breakfast. It has the power to make or break the rest of your day. Generally, it has to be something different from other meals. I don’t understand the bread, cheese and cold cuts of continental Europe, that’s lunch! I wasn’t impressed in China when I went down for breakfast in a hotel to be presented with rice. Neither was I pleased in India when a hotel provided chips for breakfast. (Not sure what they were thinking?!) But less of the bad and more of the good. Here are my favourite breakfasts from around the world.
Britain
Ok I may be a little biased here, but I honestly think that Britain has the best breakfasts in the world. There’s nothing I love more than waking up to the smell of frying bacon. I’m salivating just thinking about it. A bacon butty (sandwich) with brown sauce is perfection. On the weekend it has to be a full English. Bacon, sausages, fried eggs, mushrooms, tomato, fried bread, hash browns, baked beans, black pudding… Heaven!
Morocco
While staying in a riad (a traditional building surrounding a courtyard) in Marrakesh I would head up to the roof terrace in the morning for a breakfast of meloui. These are pancakes formed by rolling the dough up like a rug then flattening the coil into a circle to create a spiral design. Served with a syrup made of butter and honey, I enjoyed this tasty breakfast while admiring the views over the city.
Spain
My first introduction to churros was at an American theme park, fried dough strips covered in cinnamon, good but not great. Fast forward a few years and my Spanish teacher took me out to breakfast in Madrid and suggested ‘churros con chocolate’. Now these churros just had a sprinkling of sugar and were served with a thick hot chocolate, much better. However it wasn’t until I lived in Sevilla I discovered huge spirals of churro, cut into pieces softer and thicker than those I’d tried previously. These dipped into the chocolate are perfection!
France
My mornings in France usually started with a walk or cycle to the local bakery. I would open the door to be hit with the delicious smell of freshly baked bread. ‘Pain au chocolat’ are my guilty pleasure. You get the same flaky buttery pastry as a croissant but with a chocolate hit that is divine melted goodness. Say au revoir to the diet!
Canada
I used my trip to Canada as an opportunity to eat as much maple syrup as humanly possible. This would usually consist of half a bottle being poured over a stack of pancakes. And these pancakes are proper pancakes. Not paper-thin crepe style pancakes like I usually make at home. Think thick scotch pancakes, but much bigger. It certainly isn’t healthy but wow it tastes so good!
Posted on May 31, 2014, in General and tagged food, top picks. Bookmark the permalink. 20 Comments.
This looks amazing! 🙂
Thanks for commenting and I agree, I think they all look amazingly tasty!
They really do!
Best wishes,
Alice
Breakfast is definitely my favourite meal of the day and churros ranks up there with the best!
I’ve just found a cafe chain here in Australia called San Churro, they serve all sorts of churros and Spanish style hot chocolate, think they’ll be my new hang out!
I’m not much of a breakfast eater unless I’m traveling. Like you, I loved French pastries in the morning in France. That’s probably my favorite.
I’m the opposite, I would eat breakfast foods for every meal if it weren’t so unhealthy! The good thing about traveling is that we can eat French pastries and not feel guilty as sampling the local cuisine is all part of soaking up the culture… or so I tell myself!
I would love to make it to France one day and enjoy pastries! I do love breakfast foods! My favorites were in SE Asia, where they eat a lot of noodles or rice dishes for breakfast. Very different from what I’m used to!
I do love a good breakfast! I had an amazing breakfast of thinly sliced, toast cinnamon raisin bread layers with ricotta cheese, honey, shredded mint, and stewed fruit in Sydney.
I’m not sure how I feel about the description of that breakfast! Sounds like a strange combination…
Delicious… I like the breakfast too,for its important
I was always told it was the most important meal of the day while growing up. Now I just love it because it’s so tasty! Thanks for commenting!
Hmmmm, breakfast what a great meal. The full English is definitely a great breakfast but I love the French pain au chocolat, and spanish churros look so… good.
The churros are more than good! How are you finding breakfast in China? I wasn’t a fan.
No Chinese breakfast is not good, rice or noodles, not enough change from the other meals of rice or noodles for my liking.
Exactly what I thought as well! While I was studying I gave up on the uni canteen for breakfast pretty quickly and regularly bought out the local supermarkets limited supply of cereal…
Same, I don’t usually care for honey cheerios, but since arriving here they have become a regular addition to my diet! 🙂
Same, I don’t usually care for honey cheerios but since arriving here they have become a regular part of my diet! haha 🙂
Same, I don’t usually care for honey cheerios but since arriving here they have become a regular part of my diet! haha 🙂
Sorry for the overload of messages, I think my computer is playing jokes on me today!