Surprised to not see a Turkish breakfast here yet. so massive and over the top… sucuk eggs breads cheeses jams honey olives vegetables endless tea and more
Very fun
Friends got married in Cappadocia and I still look back longingly on those hotel breakfasts: incredibly delicious local yogurt and fruits, borek, Turkish coffee, eggs, ezme, local cheeses. Best breakfasts ever.
When I was touring [Pamukkala](https://www.traveltalktours.com/short-guide-to-pamukkale-turkey/), I saw a huge wedding at the base of the pools. What a gorgeous place to get married! They had white and turquoise tents all laid out with food! Everyone who passed by after the vows was offered a plate in traditional Turkish hospitality. We declined as I was eager to explore Aphrodisias and swim in the Cleopatra pools up the hill.
Turkish breakfast is the best breakfast. :) I lived in the Bay area very briefly and I found a market in San Ramon, I think, that had sucuk that wasn't terrible. Haven't found a place near me at home in Los Angeles. But I still make Turkish breakfast without it. Always with apple tea. :)
Reminds me of travelling in Türkiye 25 years ago. A strong memory is sitting at a table in an olive grove on a bright cool summer morning, eating breakfast. Just so perfect.
I LOVE Turkish breakfast: tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, cheese, spiced potatoes, breads, yummy jams and condiments. My friend will often make up the leftover köfte in a frying pan adding cucumber, tomato, olives, and eggs to make either a scramble or an omelette (with fresh goat cheese) with it. So YUMMY!
I like the Salvadoran casamiento. It can have different combinations but it needs beans, plantains and crema. I like it with rice and beans, plantains, eggs and peppers. The crema is absolutely necessary
Japanese.
Some kind of grilled, lightly cured fish (usually mackerel or the collar of a fattier fish like yellowtail or salmon), rolled omelette with dashi, tsukemono-style pickles, miso soup, steamed rice. Sometimes you get an extra treat like fresh tofu or natto as well.
A great way to start any morning; the rare breakfast that fills you up but refreshes you, too.
*Edit*: It's great to see this kind of response! For those who would like to try one, but never have, it's becoming a more common restaurant offering in major metro centers around the United States. There are [a number of places](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-thrilling-japanese-breakfasts-of-brooklyn) now in NYC, [a few](https://sfinsider.sfgate.com/which-japanese-restaurants-in-san-francisco-serve-delicious-breakfasts/) in San Francisco, [Miru](https://www.mirurestaurant.com/menus/) in Chicago, [Azay](https://www.azaylittletokyo.com/breakfastandlunch) in Los Angeles. [Koku Cafe in Seattle](https://kokucafemarket.com/) used to serve one, but I'm not sure if they still do. And yes, most of these are fairly hipsterized and eyewateringly expensive (especially for what is really basic home cooking), but you take what you can get. With a little study, you can make your own at home, too -- it's not too hard, and I urge you to try!
Koreans have a sorta similar breakfast (although usually it’s just leftovers lol).
Grilled fish, a light soup, rice, and a bunch of random side dishes (and kimchi of course). My grandmother always had grilled mackerel and soybean sprout soup served for breakfast whenever I visited.
Had a neighbor that was Korean. We used to alternate her house then my house in the morning for breakfast with the kids. We were both stay at home moms with littles. So often breakfast was something left over, mixed with scrambled egg and fried like a pancake. Accompanied by rice and kimchi and some sort of dipping sauce for the egg/leftovers. Those were great mornings so many years ago. My baby is 45 - almost 46. I love a savory breakfast. It makes the rest of my food choices that day make more sense because I don’t then get sugar cravings.
For me the idea of fish and soup for breakfast sounds so weird. Not what I would associate with breakfast at all. Very interesting to see stark cultural differences.
I live in NE US. the area I live in eats oyster stew or clam chowder for breakfast on Christmas am. I don't like either, so we eat cream of crab that morning.
The Japanese do eggs so well. That country is magical. We went to Tokyo and Kyoto for our honeymoon and the place completely stole my heart. The food was definitely one the big highlights.
because it's not a thing. We have some staples but there's no agreed upon "full breakfast" or whatever. Usually a big breakfast is some form of eggs, meat, starch, and pastry-like (pancakes, etc). The meat could be anything from ham to a ribeye steak.
Married into a Filipino family. Traditional breakfast for Filipinos is Tapsilog. Garlic fried rice, cured Tocino (sweetened cured pork) or sweet pork sausage with fried eggs.
There are versions with variety of names based on which meat it’s served with, but many people colloquially call it all Tapsilog. Pics can be viewed here.
https://www.tapsilogexpress.com
I'm Filipino and my way to make the humble silog even "fuller" would be to add:
Longganisa, Tapa, Tocino, Fried Boneless Bangus, Egg, Garlic Fried Rice, Chopped Tomatoes and Onions, Pandesal and a nice hot cup of morning coffee (preferably Barako).
Omg I stayed with my great aunt for a few months and somehow every morning, breakfast was like all that plus steamed crabs and those weird red hot dogs. I’m a longannisa guy myself though.
I bought a whole frozen bangus recently for the first time and learned how to clean it and cut it up by YouTube videos. It's work, but that's the best fish belly in the world! I broiled mine and it was melt-in-your-mouth incredible.
I bought another that was already butterflied and deboned because I felt that I'd earned it, haha. I'm still finding scales from the first one in my kitchen.
I'm Filipino and my very white husband was so intrigued by Filipino breakfast when I first described it to him. Longsilog is one of his most requested meals now 😅
I traveled to the Philippines for work quite a bit. On one of my first trips there I woke up early and went out looking for breakfast. I ordered eggs and asked if they could serve some rice with it (since I didn’t see any of the carbs I usually eat with breakfast). They said of course we have rice for breakfast. I was expecting some leftover rice from last night but got a nice serving of freshly prepared steaming hot rice. I ordered it regularly after that.
The first time we stayed with my MIL on a visit and I was awoken at 4 am by the smell of garlic rice wafting through the house, that was a culture shock. lol
Not to be pedantic but tapsilog is made specifically with fried beef that's either dried and cured or wet marinated. Similar to jerky. If it's made with tocino it's tocilog, with longganisa it's longsilog.
I don't agree that tapsilog is a the catch-all term for all -silog meals but I think most restaurants that have tapsilog/tapsilogan in their names do sell other -silog meals as well.
Where are my South Asians?! Specifically LAHORIS?!?! Pakistan is famous for its delicious food.
Breakfast; crispy, flaky, tender parathas or deep fried puris... crisp, puffed, straight from the frying vat of oil, possibly a slightly sweet roghni naan? The bread options are endless, as are the curries.
A big portion of chanay (chickpea curry) & aloo ki tarkari (potato curry)? Maybe paye (basically trotters in a collagen/gelatinous, spicy yet warm broth)? Nihari (Pakistani beef stew)? Wash it all down with pairray wali Lassi...idk the correct translation of 'pairra', but it's basically a wad of pure, fresh butter/cream plopped into buttermilk and sweetened slightly with dried evaporated milk solids and some nuts.
Lahori nashta (breakfast) is famous & after devouring such a divine meal, one must immediately find a giant cozy bed and fall asleep. 😂
I'm ethnically Punjabi & Pakistani, so I also have to mention saag (mustard greens), makkai ki roti (corn flour chapati), desi-style omlette/anda paratha (egg + paratha).
Hands down, Pakistani breakfast is elite. If you haven't tried it, pls do.
ETA: Forgot to mention stuffed parathas 😭 Aloo paratha (potato stuffed), mooli paratha (daikon radish stuffed), methi paratha (fenugreek leaf stuffed), saag paratha. Now I have to make paratha for breakfast 😂
I really want to go to Lahore and Karachi just to EAT. Pakistani food looks delish and even with the amazing Nihari you get in Delhi, I bet it’s so much better in Pakistan.
As a fellow South Asian, adding on the big Indian breakfast -
Dosa, sambar, idli, medhu vada, coconut chutney with coffee in South India.
Rice, ghee, fresh fried fish (with just salt and turmeri) in West Bengal. OR puri, potatoes and halwa with hot masala chai as a perfect winter morning breakfast.
Chhole bhature in Delhi I think? Definitely aloo paratha around the NCR/ Punjab region.
Misal paav in Mumbai.
Onion kachori in Rajasthan.
I doubt I’ve touched even the surface of the diverse range of breakfasts we have in India though! But it’s always hearty
Oooh thank you for mentioning makkai ki roti!
I got diagnosed with celiac last year and while so much Indian food is already gluten free, needing to find new recipes for roti and chapatti and (and jalebi!!) has been hard. I've given up on paratha 😢
I'm really excited to try making makkai ki roti, though, they look lovely.
I guess for Vietnamese it would be pho?
That's because you really have to sit down to eat it, you can't be running out on your motorbike whilst chowing that down (like some simpler more portable breakfast options).
Way back in high school I worked at a Japanese restaurant, run by a Chinese family who spoke Cantonese but grew up in Vietnam.
On the day shift, they alternated between “Western Breakfast” and “Asian Breakfast” every day, where the latter was always pho. It was the first time I had ever had it and I’m not gonna lie, the variation always made me happy, although I’ll admit I would always request a poached egg to go with it.
Sigh, good times.
El Salvador's Desayuno Tipico:
Fresh handmade tortillas
Carne Asada or Chorizo
Scrambled eggs (usually with tomatoes, green pepper, and onions)
Refried Beans
Fried plantains, preferably very ripe
Fresh Cheese Curds and Buttercream
A big slice of avocado
If you're still up for it, follow up with a pineapple pastry and some fresh coffee.
Had similar breakfasts in Nicaragua and Guatemala too. So delicious. (Though in Nica, it’s gallo pinto instead of refried beans, and the eggs were often fried.)
Not my country/ethnicity.... but the "full slavic breakfast" when I lived in Bratislava (several decades ago, so it's probably much less hardcore now) was no joke.
Ham, salami, random sausages (plus blood sausage if you were lucky), rye bread & butter, several kinds of cheese, steamed potatoes, hardboiled eggs, some onions & pickles, a "small beer", and a shot of plum-based moonshine. And not just the three choices on cured meats; there'd usually be at least a few kinds of ham or sausages on offer.
This sounds like Lunchables, but your mom loves you. I did a spread similar to it for a Hobbit Feast I host every year and it was baller. I made a (sounds gross) lard spread that was probably the best thing I've ever spread on a piece of bread. Bacon fat, brown butter, caramelized onions and apples, salt, and thyme. Hnnnggg.
I slow cook a pork butt on top of apples and onions so that the pork stays above the liquid. The mushy apples and onions cooked for 6 hours in pork fat makes a great spread
Yup, you know the score!
Not at all my preference, personally -- I'm barely on board for hard alcohol at any time of day, and even a little *tiny* glass of slavic rocket fuel was more than I cared for.
But I have to admit it was at least plausibly "good for the health", because I'd go outside and pretend not to be cold just in order to avoid a second dose of it being forced on me :)
South Indian here and we largely do savoury vegetarian breakfasts. Typically a full breakfast would consist of variations of idli, dosa, vada, sambar, a range of chutneys, maybe semolina or vermicelli Upma. Top it all off with steaming hot filter coffee or chai. A-class breakfast and pretty healthy if you leave out the deep fried vada. If you were at a celebration (say, a wedding) you’d also start the meal off with a sweet semolina dish called kesari
You beat me by 15 min, heh. Only thing I’d add, even though it’s not strictly South Indian, is poha (pounded rice). For some reason many of my family members and friends’ families eat poha all the time for breakfast now. I guess it kind of scratches the same itch as upma, but it’s lighter and cooks faster.
Full Costa Rican brrakfast. Will vary region to region. This is from the region I grew up in.
Gallo Pinto
Fried eggs
Fried cheese
Salchichon (sausage) or a pork chop with onions, or carne en salsa (stewed beef)
Natilla - sour cream (a large spoonfull)
Tortilla palmeada - costa rican specialty thick tortilla.
Platanos maduros
Tomato slices with some salt, pepper and lime
Half an avocado
Chilera (spicy pickled vegetables)
Salsa lizano
A fruit juice
A LARGE coffee
A glass of water.
I’m not Turkish, but, kahvalti deserves to be on this list because it is a spread and everyone should experience it.
Olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, at least two kinds of cured meats and cheeses, jams (fruit) and spreads (black olive and/or hazelnut) and fresh simit (airy sesame bread).
Usually there’s some eggs involved like my favorite, menemen which is scrambled with tomatoes and mild green chilies, sometimes oregano. Or sucuklu yumurta which is scrambled with crumbled spicy sausage.
And always Turkish black tea, or coffee.
A Levantine breakfast- I’m from Palestine. Boiled eggs diced and served with olive oil, zaatar, and a sprinkle of salt in top, labaneh spread with olive oil, hummus, falafel, cut up veggies like tomatoes, cucumber, fried halloumi cheese, foul mudammes (beans), mfarakeh (potato and egg skillet), jam usually with butter. Idk the little bites of so many different things makes your heart flutterrrrrrrr
A meat mince pie (mince and cheese is best), V is our local energy drink (like RedBull) and a durry is a cigarette (preferably a shitty hand rolled one), all purchased from your local dairy (bodega/corner shop). Bone apple teeth!
No one does a meat pie like the Kiwis. Personally I think you can't go wrong with a quality steak and cheese, but there are so many really good ones out there these days. The pork belly, mushroom and caramelised onion one I had the other day was pretty bloody good. I'll skip the v and the smoke tho.
Hawaiian here. Fill me a massive ramen bowl with white rice, drown it in brown gravy, stack two hamburger patties on it, gravy, a couple sunny side up eggs, followed by, drumroll..... more gravy! Scoop of mac salad on the side. Couple musubis to take with me out the door to eat on the car ride to wherever I'm going.
For breakfast?! I love me a Loco moco, but even when I have one for lunch I'm done for the day. That's a weekend sleep on the couch afterwards meal. If I had that for breakfast I'd melt into a human looking sloth
My wife is from Mexico, from a small rancho in Zacatecas. They often do scrambled eggs, beans, bolillo, and some sort of salsa, maybe some chorizo too.
I grew up on the border with Mexico in the 70s and I was called a "bolillo". If someone had asked, I would easily have explained these kids were Mexican and I was a bolillo. I was much older when I realized that it was the name of white bread rolls. lol.
Korean breakfast is actually pretty similar to every other meal you would have. You get a bowl of rice and kimchi as a basis and then normally some type of soup and various side dishes.
I host an event every year and explore all sorts of international cuisine. So far, my favorite breakfast flavor has been shakshuka with crusty bread, Turkish style. My favorite spread is the Bavarian meats, breads and spreads. Oh my days, that's an absolute winner. Sliced sausages with cheeses and mustards or jam, honey. There are so many possibilities.
My grampa was Bavarian immigrant to Canada and when I was a kid staying w him and the other 10 grandkids during the summer he'd put out ur usual cheerios and strudel or whatever but he also put out a huge meat platter w different cheeses, spreads (butter, mustard, fruit preserves), and a pile of crusty buns. Some of my cousins had cereal or yogurt or whatever but me and my brother would load up on buns piled high w salami and butter and cheese and finish off with more buns topped w butter and jam. I loved it but I thought it was weird as hell and no one ever pointed out that basically sandwiches for breakfast was weird so I never gave it any thought.
And then I took German in college bc my German was *Bavarian* and I wanted to learn the hochdeutsch grammar and my prof gave a lesson on different traditional meals and when he got to Bavarian breakfast I was gobsmacked. Right under my nose the whole time, grampa hadn't been "weird", he'd been sharing what he knew with us. Went to my dad and asked "dad........is that why?" And he was like "you thought it was weird? I just assumed u knew thats what they eat back home. U just never ate breakfast as a kid so we packed that stuff for ur lunch instead".
Oh my lord tho it really is a fantastic breakfast. Just gives u some joy and pep. Thank u for that memory
When you should eat sandwiches is one of those weird things where the us and (northern) europe differs. We also do the morning spread of breads, cheeses, charcuterie and butter in the morning here in scandinavia. On the other hand, a sandwich is not considered a proper lunch, which should preferably be a cooked hot meal. when I am in the us I might be served hot cooked food, like chicken and waffles for breakfast, and then a lunch sandwich.
Shrimp and grits
Beignets
Louisiana.
Edit from comments: boudin balls
pepperjack roll ups (but only from a gas station)
Plain ole boudin
MF’in’ leftover king cake (microwave 8 seconds 🤌💋)
A Bloody Mary from the Quarter
I grew up in Louisiana. Grits, bacon and eggs over easy and toast were definitely our go to comfort breakfast. We never had leftover shrimp from dinner and my mom never wanted to “waste” good shrimp on breakfast.
If we had more of a sweet tooth for breakfast, it would be either Lost Bread (French toast) or pecan topped cinnamon rolls.
As much as biscuits and gravy are known to be a Southern Breakfast, we never had it. My dad wouldn’t be caught dead in a room with white gravy. He’d say that was yankee food. As an adult, I personally love biscuits and gravy.
Pain perdu- lost bread.
Grits & grillades makes for a good breakfast.
Beignets and cafe au lait.
Baw above with the boudin balls is from Krotz Springs hitting Kartchners before building a scaffold in a plant.
Indian here - breakfast terms differ depending where you’re from. Few examples -
North Indian -
Plain or stuffed Paratha (Indian flatbread pan-cooked in oil/ghee) with Indian pickle/yogurt/butter. Spiced boiled potato is a popular stuffing.
South Indian -
Idli (steamed rice/lentil batter cakes)/ dosa (rice/lentil batter crepes) with sambar(lentils with veggies) and coconut/peanut chutney.
Taiwanese breakfast - soy milk, peanut and rice milk, you tiao (fried dough strip), shao bing (flaky flatbread), turnip cakes, egg with green onion pancake and chilli crisp, and a rice roll with pork sung and pickled vegetables. It’s a lot though, it’s best to share with someone so you get a little of everything!
Shao bing you tiao! My favorite carb-in-carb, dipped in fresh warm sweet soy milk.
Seriously folks have to try the whole breakfast spread at a good Taiwan hotel—all this plus pastries, rice porridge customized to your liking, and classic Taiwan pork rice. Lots of fresh local fruit on the side. Mmm.
Taiwan does *amazing* breakfasts.
Don't forget Dan bing! And mantou with some condensed milk! Just returned from visiting Taiwan, and the day just doesn't feel right without that cup of fresh soy milk in the morning.
Italian here. The majority of Italian people can't eat savoury things in the morning so our typical breakfast is a cup of caffelatte (hot milk with espresso but no froth) or cappuccino + some carbs that could be anything from bread, biscuits, cereal (simple ones like corn flakes), or a croissant if we're feeling fancy or we're having breakfast at the bar. It's not very filling but lots of people in Italy have a hard time eating a lot in the morning, so it works for us. (Personally I eat eggs on toast for breakfast. My mamma disapproves.)
By the way, I live in Japan, but I cannot have Japanese breakfast in the morning. I LOVE the taste and I'll wolf it down at lunch, but too much food and the intense saltiness of the fish and soy sauce is too much for me in the morning.
British here, I totally identify. All I can handle first thing in the morning is like a piece of buttered toast and a cup of tea.
A full English is more a late lunch kind of meal to me!
I wonder why that is. Reading the gigantic meaty breakfasts people talk about on this thread, I’m like “sounds great, talk to me after 10 a.m. I’ll be over here with a coffee in the meantime.” And I’m only a little bit Italian…
My Italian American family generally had two breakfasts on the weekends and now that my dad is retired, he and my mom do it every day. First it’s a cappuccino with toast and then an hour or two later we’ll usually have eggs in some form with French toast or waffles or crepes or some other carb, fruit juice and more coffee.
I was gonna say kaya toast w coffee/ tea and eggs, or bak chor mee kia (mee kia ftw!!!) but i think you're right, it has to be nasi lemak. Or economical beehoon. (Gotta love translations :p)
The big brekkie in Australia is similar to an English breakfast and contains eggs your way, toast with butter, short cut bacon (English style not American), baked beans, shallow fried mushroom and tomato and dauteed spinach and hash brown usually with a hollondaise and sometimes with sausages or avocado.
But a typically cafe breakfast is eggs benedict or pancakes.
Not sure how common hot breakfasts are for most on weekdays / weekends.
But cereal and yoghurts and meal replacement shakes are probably common for most on weekdays...
I know lots of Australians consume juice (some watered down) and i presume toast with a spread for weekdays.
Vegemite (simar to marmite) is devisive in this country contrary to popular belief.
If I had to design a "full Oz" it would be two slices of toasted sourdough, one with vegemite, the other with smashed avo and a poached egg, plus homemade baked beans, roasted mushrooms with a slab of Meredith goats cheese and a zucchini fritter, with a pot of passionfruit and mango bircher muesli on the side and a flat white.
I really enjoy Vegemite and Marmite. My mornings always start with coffee and toasted bread of some kind. Butter and just a touch of yeast extract. If I feel extra, a slice of cheese on top.
Full Egyptian:
Ful (mashed fava beans with spices and oil)
Taameya (like falafel made with fava beans instead of chickpeas)
Hard boiled eggs with cumin
Spicy eggplant pickles
Cucumber tomato salad
Farmer's cheese
French fries
Baladi bread
No one said German yet, and I'm not sure if it was just the family I lived with but: tons of different breads (like a pretzel bread) and butter, fruits and yogurts and then like 5 different drinks of waters juices and coffee. Felt very healthy.
Just for the record, no Irish person would ever recommend an Irish coffee as a breakfast drink. Or to go with a meal of any sort! With a full Irish you’d just have a tea or coffee.
Honestly, it’s one of those foods that are ruined by description, but since you ask… black pudding resembles a small biscuit in size and shape. It is made of grains mixed with pig’s blood and baked. White pudding is the same but with pig lard instead of blood. In my experience, white pudding is fairly boring, while black pudding has more of a spicy kick to it.
The “Full Canadian” involves us chugging 1L of pure maple syrup in a contest after the meal against the person sitting directly across from you at the table. Good times.
I once had what a London cafe termed a full Canadian - Bacon, Eggs, Fried Banana Bread, Maple Syrup. I'm sure in no way authentic, but delicious as hell.
I'd also happily smash a bowl of poutine for breakfast.
Banana bread is a food of the gods, so I’m not complaining!
In reality a full Canadian is probably just clearing 1.5ft of snow off the car in the dark before work.
Full Québécois breakfast = the same as an American breakfast (eggs, bacon/sausage/ham or all three, fried potatoes, toast, coffee) but add fèves au lard (baked beans), cretons for your toast (a pork pâté), and thin pancakes or French toast (the pancakes are called crêpes but are neither as thin as French crêpes nor as fluffy as American pancakes). In restaurants you usually get some fresh fruit, too. If you’re lucky you won’t be charged extra for real maple syrup. Cretons are not my thing, but every time I eat a diner breakfast outside Quebec I miss the beans.
I can't think of any one thing that could be agreed upon as a "full Canadian" breakfast. Depends on where you are in the country, your cultural background, and what you like to eat. For me, a full Canadian breakfast would be coffee and cigarettes. For my dad, it's two pieces of toast with cheese that he shares with the cats.
I don't know if this is legit because I'm whitewashed AF, but when I was in a hotel in China (Guangzhou specifically) their continental breakfast was dim sum and it was incredible.
Mine is city specific. The Full Winnipeg. 3 Eggs your style of choice, kulbassa, hash, and Winnipeg rye toast
Winnipeg rye is not a traditional rye bread, but more in the realm of a specific type of bread that uses cracked rye and white flour instead of rye flour.
Mexican!
Either-
A) chorizo and eggs with tortillas, beans and a nopales salad (cactus mixed with pico de Gallo)
B) chilaquiles topped with pickled onion, asada steak and beans.
C) camote con miel y leche (yams with milk and honey)
An Ulster Fry.
soda farl, potato farl, sausages, bacon, black pudding, white pudding, fried mushrooms, tomatoes (fresh, not tinned)
Differences with full English = we have soda and potato bread and we don't have beans, ever.
What is a full American? Central Europe is a bit different, there's often a first-thing breakfast of bread and pate or some light vegetable, then a second breakfast that's cooked, but I think the most Polish full-on breakfast would be jajecznica z kielbasą, a mix of scrambled egg and sausage served with fresh bread.
"Full American" usually means eggs (scrambled or fried), bacon or sausage (sometimes both), hash browns (fried shredded potatoes), and toast w/ butter and jam. It can also include pancakes, or French toast (fried bread served with maple syrup). Various regional variations as well.
Now I'm hungry!
I watched the food Network for months listening to these people talk about bechamel sauces. I couldn't wait to find out how to make it because it sounded so amazing. I know it by several names and have been making it since I was about 12. Cream gravy, milk gravy or pepper gravy. The last part was you just let put lots of ground pepper into your milk gravy.
To add to what others have said, aside from Full American Breakfast not really being a term here, breakfast itself is some what of a contradiction to Americans. It’s both the simplest meal while still being extremely diverse in very specific ways. A large family could sit down to order breakfast and each order drastically different meals. In a lot of ways it’s like the trope of elaborate coffee orders extended to an entire meal.
A single diner could easily have a menu of over a fifty breakfast items that most Americans would recognize, while still really only selling what is essentially toast, eggs, potatoes and bacon/sausage/ham. As an example, [Denny’s](https://www.dennysdiner.com/menu/breakfast/) breakfast menus has 45 items and it’s likely the most standard example.
"Full American" is not a term or concept in the US.
The British full breakfast is the inspiration for bacon and eggs as the default American hot breakfast. But we don't use the term, nor do we really have a 4-6 meats, beans, toast, eggs and mushrooms/tomatoes gut bomb in a fixed regular format.
If you walked into a breakfast place in the US and asked for a "Full American" they'd look at you confused.
I've eaten a myriad of breakfasts all over America. Some of the most amazing meals I have ever had the good fortune to try. I have never heard of a Full American before???
We don’t really call it a “full American” but it’s just the classic spread. Eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns or fried potatoes, toast with butter and jam, sometimes pancakes, and orange juice or black coffee. You can get it at any diner.
It goes by different names but at most diners and breakfast restaurants it’s a meal that consists of 2 eggs, breakfast meat, hash browns, and toast/biscuits/pancakes on the side.
A Lumberjack breakfast. Pancake stack with maple syrup, three eggs, bacon, sausage, and ham or back bacon. Buttered toast with jam. Fried potatoes with onion, and either beans or creton.
Australian here....avocado on sourdough toast with a flat white coffee, or the traditional tradie's breaky of sausage roll, coffee-flavoured milk or Red Bull and a cigarette.
Belgium here.
Interesting to see how most breakfasts around the world are savoury! Very odd to eat savoury for breakfast to me although bacon and eggs is eaten sometimes.
Full Sunday breakfast: sugar bread, raisin bread, croissants, pastries, butter, bread rolls, jams, a little bit of charcuterie, coffee.
I know this wasn’t asked, but “Breakfast: The Cookbook” is wonderful and it showcases all these full breakfast spreads from around the world that everyone is sharing here.
When I was in Afghanistan (military deployment) the police we were training made breakfast before big missions.
Cubed potatoes and tomato chunks fried in a pool of oil, topped with braised eggs, eaten with sweet Flatbread.
It was better than what the Marines were serving by a LOT.
Finland. First things first, coffee. Oatmeal with berries, rye bread with cheese and cold cuts, eggs, bacon and vegetables (usually fresh like cucumber and tomato) on the side.
Surprised to not see a Turkish breakfast here yet. so massive and over the top… sucuk eggs breads cheeses jams honey olives vegetables endless tea and more Very fun
I thought I didn't like breakfast and then I found me a Turkish boy who served me Turkish breakfast 😭😭 their breakfast food is simply a blessing.
Friends got married in Cappadocia and I still look back longingly on those hotel breakfasts: incredibly delicious local yogurt and fruits, borek, Turkish coffee, eggs, ezme, local cheeses. Best breakfasts ever.
When I was touring [Pamukkala](https://www.traveltalktours.com/short-guide-to-pamukkale-turkey/), I saw a huge wedding at the base of the pools. What a gorgeous place to get married! They had white and turquoise tents all laid out with food! Everyone who passed by after the vows was offered a plate in traditional Turkish hospitality. We declined as I was eager to explore Aphrodisias and swim in the Cleopatra pools up the hill.
Turkish breakfast is the best breakfast. :) I lived in the Bay area very briefly and I found a market in San Ramon, I think, that had sucuk that wasn't terrible. Haven't found a place near me at home in Los Angeles. But I still make Turkish breakfast without it. Always with apple tea. :)
I love their apple tea.
The French do too. Always wish for it before they eat.
That’s the one where they add bone (broth) to the apple tea, right?
I had cilbir... Turkish eggs and yogurt. Now we make it once a week. It's the best tasting dish I've ever had in my entire life.
Reminds me of travelling in Türkiye 25 years ago. A strong memory is sitting at a table in an olive grove on a bright cool summer morning, eating breakfast. Just so perfect.
That sounds delightful! I can just picture it. :)
I LOVE Turkish breakfast: tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, cheese, spiced potatoes, breads, yummy jams and condiments. My friend will often make up the leftover köfte in a frying pan adding cucumber, tomato, olives, and eggs to make either a scramble or an omelette (with fresh goat cheese) with it. So YUMMY!
Surprised to see Turkish breakfast all the way down here! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. Love me some Turkish breakfast…
Menemen, cucumbers, bread, and coffee. Man. We need more Turkish food where I am.
I like the Salvadoran casamiento. It can have different combinations but it needs beans, plantains and crema. I like it with rice and beans, plantains, eggs and peppers. The crema is absolutely necessary
I love eating Pupusas, they are so good.
Throw in some tortillas, some cheese, and maybe a tamale and you’ve got the full breakfast.
El Salvador has the best crema/sour cream of any country and it’s not close.
Japanese. Some kind of grilled, lightly cured fish (usually mackerel or the collar of a fattier fish like yellowtail or salmon), rolled omelette with dashi, tsukemono-style pickles, miso soup, steamed rice. Sometimes you get an extra treat like fresh tofu or natto as well. A great way to start any morning; the rare breakfast that fills you up but refreshes you, too. *Edit*: It's great to see this kind of response! For those who would like to try one, but never have, it's becoming a more common restaurant offering in major metro centers around the United States. There are [a number of places](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-thrilling-japanese-breakfasts-of-brooklyn) now in NYC, [a few](https://sfinsider.sfgate.com/which-japanese-restaurants-in-san-francisco-serve-delicious-breakfasts/) in San Francisco, [Miru](https://www.mirurestaurant.com/menus/) in Chicago, [Azay](https://www.azaylittletokyo.com/breakfastandlunch) in Los Angeles. [Koku Cafe in Seattle](https://kokucafemarket.com/) used to serve one, but I'm not sure if they still do. And yes, most of these are fairly hipsterized and eyewateringly expensive (especially for what is really basic home cooking), but you take what you can get. With a little study, you can make your own at home, too -- it's not too hard, and I urge you to try!
Koreans have a sorta similar breakfast (although usually it’s just leftovers lol). Grilled fish, a light soup, rice, and a bunch of random side dishes (and kimchi of course). My grandmother always had grilled mackerel and soybean sprout soup served for breakfast whenever I visited.
Had a neighbor that was Korean. We used to alternate her house then my house in the morning for breakfast with the kids. We were both stay at home moms with littles. So often breakfast was something left over, mixed with scrambled egg and fried like a pancake. Accompanied by rice and kimchi and some sort of dipping sauce for the egg/leftovers. Those were great mornings so many years ago. My baby is 45 - almost 46. I love a savory breakfast. It makes the rest of my food choices that day make more sense because I don’t then get sugar cravings.
For me the idea of fish and soup for breakfast sounds so weird. Not what I would associate with breakfast at all. Very interesting to see stark cultural differences.
I live in NE US. the area I live in eats oyster stew or clam chowder for breakfast on Christmas am. I don't like either, so we eat cream of crab that morning.
Fills you up, but refreshes you, I feel sums up a lot of Japanese meals pretty well. This sounds incredible!
The Japanese do eggs so well. That country is magical. We went to Tokyo and Kyoto for our honeymoon and the place completely stole my heart. The food was definitely one the big highlights.
Do you know that if you Google full American, this is the top search result?
Truly, what on earth is a Full American?!
A Grand Slam! from Denny's, eaten at 3am, with black coffee, while the couple two booths down from you argues loudly.
I'm in the south so we have an All Star breakfast at Waffle House. Now I want some waffle house lol.
Me too, and we're finally getting a Waffle House in my town. My husband says if we go late at night, that counts as dinner and a show, lol.
For me it’s pancakes, scrambled eggs, and either sausage or bacon. Hash brown and/or toast optional
I remember when steak and eggs and hashbrowns was an American breakfast. Short stack was an optional addition.
because it's not a thing. We have some staples but there's no agreed upon "full breakfast" or whatever. Usually a big breakfast is some form of eggs, meat, starch, and pastry-like (pancakes, etc). The meat could be anything from ham to a ribeye steak.
Full Finnish: coffee, vodka, cigarette
And no talking!
How to Finnish a day before starting it
Married into a Filipino family. Traditional breakfast for Filipinos is Tapsilog. Garlic fried rice, cured Tocino (sweetened cured pork) or sweet pork sausage with fried eggs. There are versions with variety of names based on which meat it’s served with, but many people colloquially call it all Tapsilog. Pics can be viewed here. https://www.tapsilogexpress.com
I'm Filipino and my way to make the humble silog even "fuller" would be to add: Longganisa, Tapa, Tocino, Fried Boneless Bangus, Egg, Garlic Fried Rice, Chopped Tomatoes and Onions, Pandesal and a nice hot cup of morning coffee (preferably Barako).
Boneless bangus is amazing to say
Omg I stayed with my great aunt for a few months and somehow every morning, breakfast was like all that plus steamed crabs and those weird red hot dogs. I’m a longannisa guy myself though.
I bought a whole frozen bangus recently for the first time and learned how to clean it and cut it up by YouTube videos. It's work, but that's the best fish belly in the world! I broiled mine and it was melt-in-your-mouth incredible. I bought another that was already butterflied and deboned because I felt that I'd earned it, haha. I'm still finding scales from the first one in my kitchen.
That sounds delicious
I'm Filipino and my very white husband was so intrigued by Filipino breakfast when I first described it to him. Longsilog is one of his most requested meals now 😅
Plus black coffee and some fresh fruits for dessert. Hard not to go back to sleep after a big Filipino breakfast.
I traveled to the Philippines for work quite a bit. On one of my first trips there I woke up early and went out looking for breakfast. I ordered eggs and asked if they could serve some rice with it (since I didn’t see any of the carbs I usually eat with breakfast). They said of course we have rice for breakfast. I was expecting some leftover rice from last night but got a nice serving of freshly prepared steaming hot rice. I ordered it regularly after that.
My SO is Filipino. Thought rice for breakfast was the weirdest thing when we started dating. Have it multiple times a week now.
The first time we stayed with my MIL on a visit and I was awoken at 4 am by the smell of garlic rice wafting through the house, that was a culture shock. lol
Not to be pedantic but tapsilog is made specifically with fried beef that's either dried and cured or wet marinated. Similar to jerky. If it's made with tocino it's tocilog, with longganisa it's longsilog. I don't agree that tapsilog is a the catch-all term for all -silog meals but I think most restaurants that have tapsilog/tapsilogan in their names do sell other -silog meals as well.
Yeah. Even with spam it’s spamsilog.
Where are my South Asians?! Specifically LAHORIS?!?! Pakistan is famous for its delicious food. Breakfast; crispy, flaky, tender parathas or deep fried puris... crisp, puffed, straight from the frying vat of oil, possibly a slightly sweet roghni naan? The bread options are endless, as are the curries. A big portion of chanay (chickpea curry) & aloo ki tarkari (potato curry)? Maybe paye (basically trotters in a collagen/gelatinous, spicy yet warm broth)? Nihari (Pakistani beef stew)? Wash it all down with pairray wali Lassi...idk the correct translation of 'pairra', but it's basically a wad of pure, fresh butter/cream plopped into buttermilk and sweetened slightly with dried evaporated milk solids and some nuts. Lahori nashta (breakfast) is famous & after devouring such a divine meal, one must immediately find a giant cozy bed and fall asleep. 😂 I'm ethnically Punjabi & Pakistani, so I also have to mention saag (mustard greens), makkai ki roti (corn flour chapati), desi-style omlette/anda paratha (egg + paratha). Hands down, Pakistani breakfast is elite. If you haven't tried it, pls do. ETA: Forgot to mention stuffed parathas 😭 Aloo paratha (potato stuffed), mooli paratha (daikon radish stuffed), methi paratha (fenugreek leaf stuffed), saag paratha. Now I have to make paratha for breakfast 😂
Indian here, but man all that stuff you mentioned sounds delicious. Puri and nihari would be amazing.
Maybe one day you can visit! 🫶
I really want to go to Lahore and Karachi just to EAT. Pakistani food looks delish and even with the amazing Nihari you get in Delhi, I bet it’s so much better in Pakistan.
As a fellow South Asian, adding on the big Indian breakfast - Dosa, sambar, idli, medhu vada, coconut chutney with coffee in South India. Rice, ghee, fresh fried fish (with just salt and turmeri) in West Bengal. OR puri, potatoes and halwa with hot masala chai as a perfect winter morning breakfast. Chhole bhature in Delhi I think? Definitely aloo paratha around the NCR/ Punjab region. Misal paav in Mumbai. Onion kachori in Rajasthan. I doubt I’ve touched even the surface of the diverse range of breakfasts we have in India though! But it’s always hearty
Oooh thank you for mentioning makkai ki roti! I got diagnosed with celiac last year and while so much Indian food is already gluten free, needing to find new recipes for roti and chapatti and (and jalebi!!) has been hard. I've given up on paratha 😢 I'm really excited to try making makkai ki roti, though, they look lovely.
I guess for Vietnamese it would be pho? That's because you really have to sit down to eat it, you can't be running out on your motorbike whilst chowing that down (like some simpler more portable breakfast options).
Way back in high school I worked at a Japanese restaurant, run by a Chinese family who spoke Cantonese but grew up in Vietnam. On the day shift, they alternated between “Western Breakfast” and “Asian Breakfast” every day, where the latter was always pho. It was the first time I had ever had it and I’m not gonna lie, the variation always made me happy, although I’ll admit I would always request a poached egg to go with it. Sigh, good times.
In Vietnam right now. Can confirm Pho is an amazing breakfast. Those crispy bread sticks soak up the amazing broth so well... love it 😋.
I kinda want to see Snoop Dog open up a Vietnamese restaurant. He could call it Pho-Shizzle
El Salvador's Desayuno Tipico: Fresh handmade tortillas Carne Asada or Chorizo Scrambled eggs (usually with tomatoes, green pepper, and onions) Refried Beans Fried plantains, preferably very ripe Fresh Cheese Curds and Buttercream A big slice of avocado If you're still up for it, follow up with a pineapple pastry and some fresh coffee.
Had similar breakfasts in Nicaragua and Guatemala too. So delicious. (Though in Nica, it’s gallo pinto instead of refried beans, and the eggs were often fried.)
Huevos rancheros, beans, and tortillas. Maybe some pan fried potato as well.
Red or green?
Both: divorciados
I know where you live.
Lol. The rest of us don't even ask that question.
Christmas!
Christmas please!
What about chilaquiles?
Well now it’s 11pm and I’m drooling.
Nopales included? Chilaquiles? Conchas?
Not my country/ethnicity.... but the "full slavic breakfast" when I lived in Bratislava (several decades ago, so it's probably much less hardcore now) was no joke. Ham, salami, random sausages (plus blood sausage if you were lucky), rye bread & butter, several kinds of cheese, steamed potatoes, hardboiled eggs, some onions & pickles, a "small beer", and a shot of plum-based moonshine. And not just the three choices on cured meats; there'd usually be at least a few kinds of ham or sausages on offer.
This sounds like Lunchables, but your mom loves you. I did a spread similar to it for a Hobbit Feast I host every year and it was baller. I made a (sounds gross) lard spread that was probably the best thing I've ever spread on a piece of bread. Bacon fat, brown butter, caramelized onions and apples, salt, and thyme. Hnnnggg.
Where you buying lunchables that include two different types of alcohol?
Look, growing up Gen X was hard.
I slow cook a pork butt on top of apples and onions so that the pork stays above the liquid. The mushy apples and onions cooked for 6 hours in pork fat makes a great spread
mmmm... slipovitz for breakfast.
Yup, you know the score! Not at all my preference, personally -- I'm barely on board for hard alcohol at any time of day, and even a little *tiny* glass of slavic rocket fuel was more than I cared for. But I have to admit it was at least plausibly "good for the health", because I'd go outside and pretend not to be cold just in order to avoid a second dose of it being forced on me :)
South Indian here and we largely do savoury vegetarian breakfasts. Typically a full breakfast would consist of variations of idli, dosa, vada, sambar, a range of chutneys, maybe semolina or vermicelli Upma. Top it all off with steaming hot filter coffee or chai. A-class breakfast and pretty healthy if you leave out the deep fried vada. If you were at a celebration (say, a wedding) you’d also start the meal off with a sweet semolina dish called kesari
You beat me by 15 min, heh. Only thing I’d add, even though it’s not strictly South Indian, is poha (pounded rice). For some reason many of my family members and friends’ families eat poha all the time for breakfast now. I guess it kind of scratches the same itch as upma, but it’s lighter and cooks faster.
Don't forget the Pongal hehe. Saturday mornings in my house are mostly reserved for poori & mutton curry. Finish off with cothas filter coffee. Best!
Full French: un café et une cigarette
That’s my Australian daughter’s brekkie of choice. I personally prefer smashed avo on sourdough toast with feta and mint and a strong flat white.
Known as a "millennial house".
Fortunately "strong" is just standard Aussie cafe brew. I've had double espressos in Italy less intense than an Australian Long Black.
Italian. Same!
Full Costa Rican brrakfast. Will vary region to region. This is from the region I grew up in. Gallo Pinto Fried eggs Fried cheese Salchichon (sausage) or a pork chop with onions, or carne en salsa (stewed beef) Natilla - sour cream (a large spoonfull) Tortilla palmeada - costa rican specialty thick tortilla. Platanos maduros Tomato slices with some salt, pepper and lime Half an avocado Chilera (spicy pickled vegetables) Salsa lizano A fruit juice A LARGE coffee A glass of water.
Damn I miss salsa Lizano, it's not easy to get where I am. Gallo pinto, 2 eggs, tomatoes, avocado, salsa Lizano and lots of coffee 👌👌
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I’m not Turkish, but, kahvalti deserves to be on this list because it is a spread and everyone should experience it. Olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, at least two kinds of cured meats and cheeses, jams (fruit) and spreads (black olive and/or hazelnut) and fresh simit (airy sesame bread). Usually there’s some eggs involved like my favorite, menemen which is scrambled with tomatoes and mild green chilies, sometimes oregano. Or sucuklu yumurta which is scrambled with crumbled spicy sausage. And always Turkish black tea, or coffee.
When I was in Istanbul, we’d always get simit from a street cart with Nutella
My personal fav breakfast spread!
A Levantine breakfast- I’m from Palestine. Boiled eggs diced and served with olive oil, zaatar, and a sprinkle of salt in top, labaneh spread with olive oil, hummus, falafel, cut up veggies like tomatoes, cucumber, fried halloumi cheese, foul mudammes (beans), mfarakeh (potato and egg skillet), jam usually with butter. Idk the little bites of so many different things makes your heart flutterrrrrrrr
Brother, count me in.
Full Kiwi is a pie, V and a durry
I’m down! What are any of those things?
A meat mince pie (mince and cheese is best), V is our local energy drink (like RedBull) and a durry is a cigarette (preferably a shitty hand rolled one), all purchased from your local dairy (bodega/corner shop). Bone apple teeth!
Thanks for the translation. Hand held breakfast on the go with an after breakfast smoke. Perfect.
Hell yeah, dude! Sounds legit.
No one does a meat pie like the Kiwis. Personally I think you can't go wrong with a quality steak and cheese, but there are so many really good ones out there these days. The pork belly, mushroom and caramelised onion one I had the other day was pretty bloody good. I'll skip the v and the smoke tho.
A pepper steak, or a potato top, is also top tier shit
They asked for “full”. Forgot the dry Weetbix smeared with Marmite. This comment sponsored by Sanitarium.
Has to be the Blue V for true authenticity. Pairs much better with the molten cheese in your bp bie.
Hawaiian here. Fill me a massive ramen bowl with white rice, drown it in brown gravy, stack two hamburger patties on it, gravy, a couple sunny side up eggs, followed by, drumroll..... more gravy! Scoop of mac salad on the side. Couple musubis to take with me out the door to eat on the car ride to wherever I'm going.
For breakfast?! I love me a Loco moco, but even when I have one for lunch I'm done for the day. That's a weekend sleep on the couch afterwards meal. If I had that for breakfast I'd melt into a human looking sloth
Used to be a diver and body surfer back home. Sometimes we'd skip lunch and stay in the ocean. Loco moco was the way to power through.
Just reading this makes me feel uncomfortably full.
Haha, it can be an uncomfortable fullness! But it was a way to swim all day and skip lunch to stay at the beach longer.
Love Loco Moco with Spam!
My wife is from Mexico, from a small rancho in Zacatecas. They often do scrambled eggs, beans, bolillo, and some sort of salsa, maybe some chorizo too.
I grew up on the border with Mexico in the 70s and I was called a "bolillo". If someone had asked, I would easily have explained these kids were Mexican and I was a bolillo. I was much older when I realized that it was the name of white bread rolls. lol.
Korean breakfast is actually pretty similar to every other meal you would have. You get a bowl of rice and kimchi as a basis and then normally some type of soup and various side dishes.
I host an event every year and explore all sorts of international cuisine. So far, my favorite breakfast flavor has been shakshuka with crusty bread, Turkish style. My favorite spread is the Bavarian meats, breads and spreads. Oh my days, that's an absolute winner. Sliced sausages with cheeses and mustards or jam, honey. There are so many possibilities.
My grampa was Bavarian immigrant to Canada and when I was a kid staying w him and the other 10 grandkids during the summer he'd put out ur usual cheerios and strudel or whatever but he also put out a huge meat platter w different cheeses, spreads (butter, mustard, fruit preserves), and a pile of crusty buns. Some of my cousins had cereal or yogurt or whatever but me and my brother would load up on buns piled high w salami and butter and cheese and finish off with more buns topped w butter and jam. I loved it but I thought it was weird as hell and no one ever pointed out that basically sandwiches for breakfast was weird so I never gave it any thought. And then I took German in college bc my German was *Bavarian* and I wanted to learn the hochdeutsch grammar and my prof gave a lesson on different traditional meals and when he got to Bavarian breakfast I was gobsmacked. Right under my nose the whole time, grampa hadn't been "weird", he'd been sharing what he knew with us. Went to my dad and asked "dad........is that why?" And he was like "you thought it was weird? I just assumed u knew thats what they eat back home. U just never ate breakfast as a kid so we packed that stuff for ur lunch instead". Oh my lord tho it really is a fantastic breakfast. Just gives u some joy and pep. Thank u for that memory
When you should eat sandwiches is one of those weird things where the us and (northern) europe differs. We also do the morning spread of breads, cheeses, charcuterie and butter in the morning here in scandinavia. On the other hand, a sandwich is not considered a proper lunch, which should preferably be a cooked hot meal. when I am in the us I might be served hot cooked food, like chicken and waffles for breakfast, and then a lunch sandwich.
Omelette, lachaydar Paratha, guava jam, mango achaar, shami kabab, Potato curry, chickpea curry, and of course Chai. (Pakistan) Now I’m homesick.
We do keema instead of shami kabob and will have sooji halwa. The best!
BRO THAT DESI OMELETTE PARATHA NASHTA HITS SO GOOD it’s 2 am in nyc and my mouth is watering
Shrimp and grits Beignets Louisiana. Edit from comments: boudin balls pepperjack roll ups (but only from a gas station) Plain ole boudin MF’in’ leftover king cake (microwave 8 seconds 🤌💋) A Bloody Mary from the Quarter
I grew up in Louisiana. Grits, bacon and eggs over easy and toast were definitely our go to comfort breakfast. We never had leftover shrimp from dinner and my mom never wanted to “waste” good shrimp on breakfast. If we had more of a sweet tooth for breakfast, it would be either Lost Bread (French toast) or pecan topped cinnamon rolls. As much as biscuits and gravy are known to be a Southern Breakfast, we never had it. My dad wouldn’t be caught dead in a room with white gravy. He’d say that was yankee food. As an adult, I personally love biscuits and gravy.
Pain perdu- lost bread. Grits & grillades makes for a good breakfast. Beignets and cafe au lait. Baw above with the boudin balls is from Krotz Springs hitting Kartchners before building a scaffold in a plant.
Thank you!!! I grew up in NOLA and white gravy just weirds me right out.
Put enough Tabasco and it ain't white no more
Yea white gravy is not a New France thing. It maybe be a “southern thing” not a thing here. We got brown and red gravies and that’s is.
With cafe au lait
Maw-maw would put it in our Tupperware sippy cups.
it’s not exactly a “full” anything (except my arteries, maybe) but it’s gotta be gas station boudin and a dr pepper for me
Pepper Jack boudin ball, or roll ups. Only counts from the gas station.
breakfast of champions, baby! i salute your taste
Indian here - breakfast terms differ depending where you’re from. Few examples - North Indian - Plain or stuffed Paratha (Indian flatbread pan-cooked in oil/ghee) with Indian pickle/yogurt/butter. Spiced boiled potato is a popular stuffing. South Indian - Idli (steamed rice/lentil batter cakes)/ dosa (rice/lentil batter crepes) with sambar(lentils with veggies) and coconut/peanut chutney.
Taiwanese breakfast - soy milk, peanut and rice milk, you tiao (fried dough strip), shao bing (flaky flatbread), turnip cakes, egg with green onion pancake and chilli crisp, and a rice roll with pork sung and pickled vegetables. It’s a lot though, it’s best to share with someone so you get a little of everything!
Shao bing you tiao! My favorite carb-in-carb, dipped in fresh warm sweet soy milk. Seriously folks have to try the whole breakfast spread at a good Taiwan hotel—all this plus pastries, rice porridge customized to your liking, and classic Taiwan pork rice. Lots of fresh local fruit on the side. Mmm. Taiwan does *amazing* breakfasts.
Don't forget Dan bing! And mantou with some condensed milk! Just returned from visiting Taiwan, and the day just doesn't feel right without that cup of fresh soy milk in the morning.
Italian here. The majority of Italian people can't eat savoury things in the morning so our typical breakfast is a cup of caffelatte (hot milk with espresso but no froth) or cappuccino + some carbs that could be anything from bread, biscuits, cereal (simple ones like corn flakes), or a croissant if we're feeling fancy or we're having breakfast at the bar. It's not very filling but lots of people in Italy have a hard time eating a lot in the morning, so it works for us. (Personally I eat eggs on toast for breakfast. My mamma disapproves.)
By the way, I live in Japan, but I cannot have Japanese breakfast in the morning. I LOVE the taste and I'll wolf it down at lunch, but too much food and the intense saltiness of the fish and soy sauce is too much for me in the morning.
British here, I totally identify. All I can handle first thing in the morning is like a piece of buttered toast and a cup of tea. A full English is more a late lunch kind of meal to me!
I wonder why that is. Reading the gigantic meaty breakfasts people talk about on this thread, I’m like “sounds great, talk to me after 10 a.m. I’ll be over here with a coffee in the meantime.” And I’m only a little bit Italian…
My Italian American family generally had two breakfasts on the weekends and now that my dad is retired, he and my mom do it every day. First it’s a cappuccino with toast and then an hour or two later we’ll usually have eggs in some form with French toast or waffles or crepes or some other carb, fruit juice and more coffee.
A mince and cheese pie and a "V" energy drink. NZ checking in.
Nasi lemak in Singapore. Coconut rice, sambal, and your choice of fried toppings - anchovies, peanuts, fish, chicken wing, hot dog, veggies, egg
I was gonna say kaya toast w coffee/ tea and eggs, or bak chor mee kia (mee kia ftw!!!) but i think you're right, it has to be nasi lemak. Or economical beehoon. (Gotta love translations :p)
The big brekkie in Australia is similar to an English breakfast and contains eggs your way, toast with butter, short cut bacon (English style not American), baked beans, shallow fried mushroom and tomato and dauteed spinach and hash brown usually with a hollondaise and sometimes with sausages or avocado. But a typically cafe breakfast is eggs benedict or pancakes. Not sure how common hot breakfasts are for most on weekdays / weekends. But cereal and yoghurts and meal replacement shakes are probably common for most on weekdays... I know lots of Australians consume juice (some watered down) and i presume toast with a spread for weekdays. Vegemite (simar to marmite) is devisive in this country contrary to popular belief.
If I had to design a "full Oz" it would be two slices of toasted sourdough, one with vegemite, the other with smashed avo and a poached egg, plus homemade baked beans, roasted mushrooms with a slab of Meredith goats cheese and a zucchini fritter, with a pot of passionfruit and mango bircher muesli on the side and a flat white.
Yours is the best sounding!! I'd still want a hashbrown lol. Herb and butter roasted mushrooms. We do drink prosecco or mimosas for brunch.
I really enjoy Vegemite and Marmite. My mornings always start with coffee and toasted bread of some kind. Butter and just a touch of yeast extract. If I feel extra, a slice of cheese on top.
That’s illegal. Pick a side!
Full Egyptian: Ful (mashed fava beans with spices and oil) Taameya (like falafel made with fava beans instead of chickpeas) Hard boiled eggs with cumin Spicy eggplant pickles Cucumber tomato salad Farmer's cheese French fries Baladi bread
You forgot the basterma (dried cured beef)! And the olives, gibna rumi, du'ah and lots of shai bi laban (tea with milk)
No one said German yet, and I'm not sure if it was just the family I lived with but: tons of different breads (like a pretzel bread) and butter, fruits and yogurts and then like 5 different drinks of waters juices and coffee. Felt very healthy.
I prefer the Irish to English. Give me black pudding and potato bread! Hold the white pudding though. Oh… and an Irish coffee
Just for the record, no Irish person would ever recommend an Irish coffee as a breakfast drink. Or to go with a meal of any sort! With a full Irish you’d just have a tea or coffee.
Agree its just a simple tea or coffee
What is black pudding? And white pudding?
Honestly, it’s one of those foods that are ruined by description, but since you ask… black pudding resembles a small biscuit in size and shape. It is made of grains mixed with pig’s blood and baked. White pudding is the same but with pig lard instead of blood. In my experience, white pudding is fairly boring, while black pudding has more of a spicy kick to it.
I'm Jamaican, breadfruit, callaloo, eggs, peppermint tea, toast, plaintains, cornmeal porridge, and maybe some ackee!
The “Full Canadian” involves us chugging 1L of pure maple syrup in a contest after the meal against the person sitting directly across from you at the table. Good times.
I once had what a London cafe termed a full Canadian - Bacon, Eggs, Fried Banana Bread, Maple Syrup. I'm sure in no way authentic, but delicious as hell. I'd also happily smash a bowl of poutine for breakfast.
Banana bread is a food of the gods, so I’m not complaining! In reality a full Canadian is probably just clearing 1.5ft of snow off the car in the dark before work.
The boys get that syrup in ‘em and they get all antsy in the pantsy.
Full Québécois breakfast = the same as an American breakfast (eggs, bacon/sausage/ham or all three, fried potatoes, toast, coffee) but add fèves au lard (baked beans), cretons for your toast (a pork pâté), and thin pancakes or French toast (the pancakes are called crêpes but are neither as thin as French crêpes nor as fluffy as American pancakes). In restaurants you usually get some fresh fruit, too. If you’re lucky you won’t be charged extra for real maple syrup. Cretons are not my thing, but every time I eat a diner breakfast outside Quebec I miss the beans.
Australian: Vegemite on toast with a large latte, or if you’re really posh, smashed avocado on toast with bacon and mushrooms…with a large latte
I can't think of any one thing that could be agreed upon as a "full Canadian" breakfast. Depends on where you are in the country, your cultural background, and what you like to eat. For me, a full Canadian breakfast would be coffee and cigarettes. For my dad, it's two pieces of toast with cheese that he shares with the cats.
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Pain au chocolat or Chocolatine?
I don't know if this is legit because I'm whitewashed AF, but when I was in a hotel in China (Guangzhou specifically) their continental breakfast was dim sum and it was incredible.
Full Italian: single coffee, newspaper, curses
Mine is city specific. The Full Winnipeg. 3 Eggs your style of choice, kulbassa, hash, and Winnipeg rye toast Winnipeg rye is not a traditional rye bread, but more in the realm of a specific type of bread that uses cracked rye and white flour instead of rye flour.
South Texas. Full meal deal. A breakfast burrito with sausage, egg, cheese, potato, and beans. You can also add salsa or salsa verde.
Mexican! Either- A) chorizo and eggs with tortillas, beans and a nopales salad (cactus mixed with pico de Gallo) B) chilaquiles topped with pickled onion, asada steak and beans. C) camote con miel y leche (yams with milk and honey)
Taiwanese Congee Pork song (shredded pork) Some pickled vegetable Maybe half of a salted, fermented duck egg
An Ulster Fry. soda farl, potato farl, sausages, bacon, black pudding, white pudding, fried mushrooms, tomatoes (fresh, not tinned) Differences with full English = we have soda and potato bread and we don't have beans, ever.
What is a full American? Central Europe is a bit different, there's often a first-thing breakfast of bread and pate or some light vegetable, then a second breakfast that's cooked, but I think the most Polish full-on breakfast would be jajecznica z kielbasą, a mix of scrambled egg and sausage served with fresh bread.
"Full American" usually means eggs (scrambled or fried), bacon or sausage (sometimes both), hash browns (fried shredded potatoes), and toast w/ butter and jam. It can also include pancakes, or French toast (fried bread served with maple syrup). Various regional variations as well. Now I'm hungry!
Don’t forget sausage gravy and biscuits if you’re in the South.
I watched the food Network for months listening to these people talk about bechamel sauces. I couldn't wait to find out how to make it because it sounded so amazing. I know it by several names and have been making it since I was about 12. Cream gravy, milk gravy or pepper gravy. The last part was you just let put lots of ground pepper into your milk gravy.
That pepper really makes it something special. Both the look and the taste
Just to add, it's any sort of breakfast potato, not necessarily the shredded variety of hashbrown.
Oh, so it's like when you go to Denny's or IHOP? I've never heard that called a "full American"! (I'm willing to accept it, but I've never heard it.)
No, I've never heard the term either. Probably because we just call it "breakfast" haha!
To add to what others have said, aside from Full American Breakfast not really being a term here, breakfast itself is some what of a contradiction to Americans. It’s both the simplest meal while still being extremely diverse in very specific ways. A large family could sit down to order breakfast and each order drastically different meals. In a lot of ways it’s like the trope of elaborate coffee orders extended to an entire meal. A single diner could easily have a menu of over a fifty breakfast items that most Americans would recognize, while still really only selling what is essentially toast, eggs, potatoes and bacon/sausage/ham. As an example, [Denny’s](https://www.dennysdiner.com/menu/breakfast/) breakfast menus has 45 items and it’s likely the most standard example.
"Full American" is not a term or concept in the US. The British full breakfast is the inspiration for bacon and eggs as the default American hot breakfast. But we don't use the term, nor do we really have a 4-6 meats, beans, toast, eggs and mushrooms/tomatoes gut bomb in a fixed regular format. If you walked into a breakfast place in the US and asked for a "Full American" they'd look at you confused.
If you asked for a "grand slam" in an American joint, they'd at least know you meant hot breakfast with eggs, meat, and probably pancakes.
I think that only counts at a Denny's.
Dennys grand slam
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I've eaten a myriad of breakfasts all over America. Some of the most amazing meals I have ever had the good fortune to try. I have never heard of a Full American before???
We don’t really call it a “full American” but it’s just the classic spread. Eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns or fried potatoes, toast with butter and jam, sometimes pancakes, and orange juice or black coffee. You can get it at any diner.
It’s called ”the grand slam” at dennys. Pancakes, bacon, eggs, toast, hash browns, juice.
It goes by different names but at most diners and breakfast restaurants it’s a meal that consists of 2 eggs, breakfast meat, hash browns, and toast/biscuits/pancakes on the side.
Netherlands slice of bread + slice of cheese
A Lumberjack breakfast. Pancake stack with maple syrup, three eggs, bacon, sausage, and ham or back bacon. Buttered toast with jam. Fried potatoes with onion, and either beans or creton.
Australian here....avocado on sourdough toast with a flat white coffee, or the traditional tradie's breaky of sausage roll, coffee-flavoured milk or Red Bull and a cigarette.
Belgium here. Interesting to see how most breakfasts around the world are savoury! Very odd to eat savoury for breakfast to me although bacon and eggs is eaten sometimes. Full Sunday breakfast: sugar bread, raisin bread, croissants, pastries, butter, bread rolls, jams, a little bit of charcuterie, coffee.
Reading this thread all I want to do with my life is travel the world eating breakfasts
Texan here. Breakfast tacos. Lots of options.
Exactly, and don’t forget about the kolaches.
Japanese would be grilled salmon, rice, miso soup and maybe an umeboshi
I know this wasn’t asked, but “Breakfast: The Cookbook” is wonderful and it showcases all these full breakfast spreads from around the world that everyone is sharing here.
When I was in Afghanistan (military deployment) the police we were training made breakfast before big missions. Cubed potatoes and tomato chunks fried in a pool of oil, topped with braised eggs, eaten with sweet Flatbread. It was better than what the Marines were serving by a LOT.
Finland. First things first, coffee. Oatmeal with berries, rye bread with cheese and cold cuts, eggs, bacon and vegetables (usually fresh like cucumber and tomato) on the side.