Chinese breakfasts, etc.

[abcdefz]

I've never quite figured out why Chinese restauarants don't offer breakfasts. I'd really like to see what a Chinese breakfast is like.
Other ethnicities, too.

There's a Mexican place around here that actually has Mexican breakfasts (not just breakfast burritos, but huevos dishes and such).
An Italian restaurant has breakfast (how authentic, I don't know), etc.

It just seems weird. I mean, Chinese folks eat breakfast, right? Is it eggs and rice based?

Just curious.

[pshabi]

I've never quite figured out why Chinese restauarants don't offer breakfasts. I'd really like to see what a Chinese breakfast is like.
Other ethnicities, too.

There's a Mexican place around here that actually has Mexican breakfasts (not just breakfast burritos, but huevos dishes and such).
An Italian restaurant has breakfast (how authentic, I don't know), etc.

It just seems weird. I mean, Chinese folks eat breakfast, right? Is it eggs and rice based?

Just curious.

When I lived in Florida, a chinese place by me briefly had a brunch thing they did. Lots of dumplings (I believe they call it Dim Sum) and what not. Yes, rice was involved.

[pshabi]

Here ya go. (http://www.mrbreakfast.com/w_asia.asp)

[abcdefz]

Ah! Well, if Dim Sum is their breakfast, there are places around here that offer that. I just don't know of any that are open for breakfast.

[abcdefz]

Now I'm getting hungry.

[RobMoney$]

Dim Sum is like a brunch type thing, tea, steamed dumplings, ect.

It's a special occassion type of meal too, like an event to take the family to a restaurant for Dim Sum.

[rirv]

When I went to China I stayed a few nights in a "small" city, Huzhou, a few hours west of Shanghai. When I say small, the population was 4 million but it's not on any general maps. There the breakfast was pretty much the same as what was for dinner the night before - rice, dumplings, beef. The only concession I could find was a sweet sauce for the dumplings. What this meant was that myself and the group I was with could only manage to take a dump every two days because we got so constipated.
A few days later in Shanghai and the hotel provided a Western breakfast - breads, cereals etc.

[camo]

Japan: Wasabix :D

[checkyourprez]

italians dont really eat breakfests like we do over here. at most its a pastry or some little cracker things with jam. very slim, i wasn't a fan. but the other meals of the day take the cake.

[Myu-to]

They eat "egg" rolls.

[ericlee]

we pretty much eat congee once and a while for breakfast. Also sweet bean dumplings.

The wife and I have strange working hours so we basically wake up at noon and we don't eat breakfast too often.

[Myu-to]

Damn. The one person here who I knew I could trust for a reliable answer, and he sleeps half the day way!

:D

[mate_spawn_die]

bacon, egg and cheese bisquits

[abcdefz]

There the breakfast was pretty much the same as what was for dinner the night before - rice, dumplings, beef.



That's kind of what I gather.

American breakast is usually sort of distinct. I mean, you can eat an omelette or pancakes or cereal any time of day, but it's usually breakfast.

Well, maybe not cereal. That's midnight snack territory, there.

[HEIRESS]

I just read a book where the author described her grandmother making a sorta rice pudding oatmeal type dish for her breakfast.

that website listed "gruel" so i guess that falls under that category.

[abcdefz]

Don't be gruel to a heart that's true.

[HEIRESS]

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/032707/gruel.gif

[abcdefz]

Those Victorians surely did have potty mouths.

[Gareth]

I just read a book where the author described her grandmother making a sorta rice pudding oatmeal type dish for her breakfast.

congee or jook (like ericlee said)
same thing
i like it
you can eat it with salty eggs and fried bread stick things

[robertdowneyjr]

neighbors cat or dog that went missing the night before

[HEIRESS]

congee or jook (like ericlee said)
same thing
i like it
you can eat it with salty eggs and fried bread stick things

cook me breakfast dammit!

[b i o n i c]

i worked with this older chinese dude from chinatown not too long ago. we all worked overnight and he invited a bunch of us to chinese breakfast in the monring, but all i wanted to do was sleep.

he's been calling me up offering me some goo chiney brefass, and i keep meaning to take him up on it, but im a little scared of what it could be

[Bjork]

Q: What do Chinese people eat for breakfast?
Breakfast is something we often ignore when talking about cuisine. Want to find out what Chinese people eat for breakfast? Let's have a taste of Chinese breakfasts from the south to the north.

Generally speaking, the typical Chinese breakfast varies from region to region. Let's begin with the Cantonese-style breakfast -- Yam Cha, or Dim Sum which are popular in Chinatowns around the world.

Yam cha, literally, drink tea, is what Guangdong and HK people in particular do if they go out for breakfast in the early morning. But if a Cantonese friend invites you out to yam cha, allow plenty of time to enjoy it since it’s not to be rushed. Usually, it is a great way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning.

Dim sum are little snacks, usually steamed, deep fried, or boiled, and the variety is enormous, hundreds of them, mostly savoury. Like ha gao, A steamed wafer-thin rice-flour wrapping filled with baby shrimp or minced shrimp and some minced meat. The skin of rice-flour is so translucent that the ingredients can be clearly seen.

Another thing worth mentioning is that leaves, no matter it's Lotus leaves, banana leaves or maybe some other types, are used to wrap things in and steam or boiled for a very special flavour. A prime expression for it can be found in a kind of steamed fried rice with chicken wrapped in lotus leaf - fresh fragrance of lotus leaf.

Besides, there are also other savoury ones. If you have a sweet tooth, then the water chestnut cake, being one of the most famous, coconut snowballs, and thousand-layer sweet cake with egg topping are your best choices.

In addition to dim sum, there’s lots of different types of tea in China - black tea, green tea, oolong tea, chrysanthamum tea, pu’er tea etc etc, and the green tea with dim sum is a wonderful combination to help the digestion.

However, Chinese-styled breakfast is much more than tea and dim sum. Noodles seem to be very common breakfast as well.

In Yunnan Province, southwest of China, the spicy and delicious oodles are very common breakfast. But in Guizhou, big bowl of wheat noodles are often poured with a falf inch layer of hot pig fat.

People in the North tend to eat more wheat - for instance, steamed stuffed buns, deep-fried twisted dough stick, and various other steamed or fried snacks made from wheat flour. Youtiao (ad lib) and baozi are just two famous breadfast snacks in this regard.

Last but not the least, there is still a kind of typical Chinese food, which are always served at the breadfast table -- Zongzi. Zongzi is pyramid-shaped and made of sticky rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. Before it can ben eaten, it needs to boiled in water for ages and ages. Zongzi can be both savory and sweet. The sweet ones usually have sweet bean paste stuffing and savory ones usually have ham or pork with chestnut and sometimes Chinese mushrooms and egg yolk. Generally speaking, it is very popular in the lower Yangtze River Valley. In Jiaxing city of Zhejiang Province, there are loads of zongzi stalls selling hot zongzi every morning, something like hotdog stalls in the US, people often buy one for breakfast on their way to school every day.

As for Chinese breakfast, almost everything is cooked, and also hot. Usually, milk is boiled for drinking in the morning and everything is reheated in the microwaves before they are served as breakfast.


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