Four Countries On Your Breakfast Plate!

When we talk about cuisines, breakfasts are generally the most neglected part of the meals.Around the world not only there are different dishes which befriends the taste buds but also there is a different mood and style with which they eat.
Here are four countries (Turkey, Italy, China, Korea) and their breakfast choice. Four countries on your breakfast plate!!
P.S. : I didn't include India because that would require a whole blog post which I would be doing very soon.

TURKEY

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A proper Turkish breakfast is like any other full course meal. It can take a lot of your time to prepare a proper Turkish Breakfast. That's the reason why usually most Turks prefer to have it on weekends, like a brunch. A Turkish breakfast plate 'Kahvalti' (breakfast in Turkey is called Kahvalti, which means 'before coffee') usually includes cheese, butter, tomatoes, cucumber and olives. Its eaten with plenty of bread and jam. Turks consume lots of tea with breakfast and coffee after that. In weekdays, working people eat pastries called pogaca, similar to croissant. 

Breakfast in Turkey is not only about food but about family time and gathering. Its all about sitting together with your family and stealing all the good breakfast moments. 

ITALY

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Italians consume a very simple breakfast as breakfast is the least important meal of the day to them. It includes coffee (espresso, cappuccino or caffelatte) , hot chocolate or tea with bread, butter and jam. They also like to eat Cornetti (similar to croissants but slightly sweet), pastries and cookies. 

Nowadays cereals like oatmeals are becoming popular in Italy for breakfast. People often eat their breakfast at bars to socialize with others. 

CHINA

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Since China has a huge population like India, its food is like Indian food, its divided by regions. But as we are talking about breakfast here, they like to have plain porridge with salted eggs, preserved raddish, soy bean milk, fried noodles. They consume ;Baozi' which is a bread with meat and/or vegetables in middle, ;Jianbing' which is an egg pancake wrapped up and eaten by itself or with a crunchy middle.

What we get in India as Chinese food is actually Sino-Ludhianvi. As pointed out by Vir Sanghvi in 'Rude Food' column in Brunch under the article 'What Happened To My Chinese?,' "Sino- Ludhianvi is cooked by Nepali or Pahadi chefs who slave away in restaurants that are usually owned by punjabis who have told them what to cook and how." " Till the early 1980s,  Sino- Ludhianvi cuisine did not really exist. It was invented after the Taj famously opened the house of Ming in Delhi and told North Indians that Chinese food could be 'teekha' . Once that message had sunk in, every 'thelawallah' , worked out that if you mixed ketchup and chilli sauce, you could create your own kind of chinese menu."

KOREA

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Their breakfast contains rice, soup, several kinds of Namul or seasoned vegetables. The most important thing which Koreans can't do without in their breakfast is 'Kimchi' (fermented, pickled vegetables). They eat it with grilled meat or fish. Koreans give a lot of preference to side dishes in their morning meals. Their meals are kind of similar throughout the day, be it lunch, dinner or breakfast.

Most people are now eating western style type breakfast. Gaeran tost-u is basically a toasted egg sandwich which has onions, eggs, carrots, brown sugar and cabbage inside it.

Koreans are health conscious and therefore their meals are nutritious and healthy. So if you are on a diet or aiming for a healthy meal, Korean breakfast should be on your diet list!

So which one is your choice for breakfast?