There is an old saying: 一年之計在於春 If you want to plan your year, spring is a good time; 一日之計在於晨If you want to plan your day, the morning is a good time. The most important thing is timing.
So today I want to talk about the most important thing in the morning: Breakfast.
You can tell what items the store sells by the utensils placed in the store.
Let's start with the flat top grills.
煎板台 Flat Top Grill
It comes in two shapes: square and round.
Typically, stores with this square flat-top grill will serve sandwiches and burgers, in addition to the following items:
- 蛋餅 Chinese omelet：蛋餅 is made of flour, water and eggs kneaded into a thin pie crust. It will add another egg as it cooks. You also can add other fillings such as cheese, corn kernels, ham, bacon, etc.
- 蘿蔔糕 radish cake/turnip cake：蘿蔔糕 is made from rice flour and turnips. It's usually cut into rectangular slices. After frying, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
- 鐵板麵 iron plate noodles：noodles are served on hot iron platters, add with a bag of noodle and attached sauce. some people like order an egg with it.
The items that use the round flat-top grill to cook are mainly fried baos and fried dumplings, some shops also serve flaky scallion pancakes.
- 煎包 fried baos、煎餃 fried dumplings：They are made from flour, minced pork and cabbage.
- 蔥油餅 flaky scallion pancake：蔥油餅 are fried so they're nice and crispy on the outside. When you tear them open, you'll see the wonderful layers.
Next, the food steamer and deep fryer.
蒸籠Food Steamer、油鍋Deep Fryer
You won't miss these kitchen utensils when you walk by the stores.
This type of store usually has the order options:
- 燒餅 sesame flatbread：燒餅 is a variety of flat, crispy bread topped with sesame seeds.
- 饅頭 steamed bun：饅頭 is a white and soft type of steamed bread. They are fluffy chewy soft, and made from wheat flour, water, and yeast.
- 油條 fried bread sticks：It places the dough in the fryer and fry into a long stick. You can have 油條 in 燒餅 or 饅頭 to eat.
- 小籠包 Xiao long bao and 包子 meat/vegetable bao：小籠包 is filled with pork and lots of soup. 包子 don't have as much soup, and the fillings can be a variety of meats and vegetables.
Finally, the cooking pot
鍋具 Cooking Pot
- 清粥 congee：清粥 is rice cooked slowly with lots of water. 清粥 itself is unseasoned or lightly salted and is served with many side dishes.
- 鹹粥 salty congee： Ingredients are put into 粥 to cook, like seafood congee 海鮮粥.
- 飯糰 Taiwanese rice ball：飯糰 are made of glutinous rice wrapped around 油條, pickled radish, pickled vegetables, and spiced corned egg, then rolled into long strips.
- 麵 noodle：There are many kinds of noodles, and many noodle shops are open from early in the morning, so sometimes I choose to have noodles for breakfast.
There is another type of breakfast that uses pots: 鹹豆漿 salty soy milk.
- It's made with unsweetened soy milk and topped with 油條, small dried shrimp, pickled mustard root, and chopped scallions.
Of course, convenience stores, fast-food restaurants, and coffee shops also offer a variety of breakfast items, which are also great choices.
Craziest breakfast I've ever had
The craziest breakfast I've ever had is 麻辣火鍋 spicy hot pot..
When I was a college student, my friend and I had a crazy idea: Can we eat 麻辣火鍋 for breakfast? Why not? Is there no 麻辣火鍋 store open in the morning? Then we found one. The store is open from noon until five the next morning.
But breakfast is a meal eaten in the morning as the first meal of the day. If we stay up all night and eat it at 3 a.m., it is not breakfast but a midnight snack. So we decided: we will go to sleep at 9 p.m. and wake up at 2 a.m. Then we should be able to eat 麻辣火鍋 at 3 a.m. That's our first meal of the day, perfect!
We did it! and we regret it after a couple of hours!
When we have our 8 a.m. class, we feel like our stomachs are going crazy. Do not eat 麻辣火鍋 for breakfast, I sincerely suggest.
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