Breakfast Around the World | T+L Family
Cold cereal, meet your foreign competition. These sweet, salty, and pickled treats are typical morning meals in nine countries. As you travel—and at your own table—why not start off the day with a taste of the exotic?Pass the sprinkles, please!
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Japan
Miso soup, rice, pickled vegetables, and grilled salmon
Australia
Spaghetti on toast
Sweden
Filmjölk (sour-milk yogurt) with muesli and banana slices
Spain
Churros (warm fritters) with hot chocolate for dipping
Turkey
A hard-boiled egg, beyaz peynir (a feta-like cheese), olives, tomatoes, and cucumbers
India
Idli (steamed rice-flour cakes) with tamarind chutney
Scotland
Grilled kippers (smoked herring) and poached eggs
China
Congee (rice porridge) with pickled vegetables and "1,000-year-old eggs" (preserved duck eggs)
Holland
Bread and butter with hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles)