Chinese Breakfast
It started here... "Chinese Breakfast" is what Martha and I call it. This is not in any way intended to be an authoritative introduction to what folks there eat for their first meal. Martha and I have traveled to China twice. The first was in June of 2000 to meet and bring home our daughter, and oldest child, Lily. Food memories are scarce from that trip. The second was in June of 2014 as a family of four with son Owen in tow. This was an organized tour whose priorities included some attention to food. Some of our meals would have rightly been called feasts. Owen & Lily (right) feasting. The experience that changed meals at home, was breakfast. Several of the hotels we stayed at would organize breakfast buffets with a ridiculous variety of choices. They had a Western table with pastries, cereals, an omelette station, sausage, bacon, pancakes, etc. And then there was the Eastern region. I suppose it could have been ...