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[everydavid]

Been in Korea a while but never got into the "Korean Style" breakfast.
Kimchi and rice before lunch, never!

Anyway, I have a nice toasted bagel coated with cream cheese, and a nice hot cup of french pressed coffee (black). Yup a good Costco custumer fr sure!

What do you eat?

[jajdude]

I rarely eat breakfast, but for some reason started a thread on it not long ago:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=82263&highlight=breakfast

[The Hierophant]

Bowl of cornflakes, cup of instant coffee and a berocca multi-vitamin drink (care package from NZ). Never gets old.

[wo buxihuan hanguoren]

HomePlus sells bagels. Pretty much buy plain bagels there, some Dutch Edam cheese (real cheese not that N-American plastic-like crap), put that on the bagel in the toaster oven so it melts in nice and good, then maybe some bacon on the bagel, too, for dinner though as I don't eat breakfast.

Costco here sucks pretty much, but it is reliable for hot dog rolls, maybe in 10 year's time Korea will have half the Western products that are available in places like Pakistan or Cambodia, who knows...

[pdx]

The bagels are super cheap at costco. And they have philadelphia cream cheese

I had cheerios and yogurt.

[Natalie]

Sometimes poached eggs on toast yum, but usually just coffee and nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts whatever I can get my hands on^^)

In fact, if I eat breakfast, I'm usually hungrier by lunchtime than if I don't eat any.

But always coffee

[Natalie]

wow, you guys like your bagels aye? Can you believe I've only had one bagel in my life, and it was here in Korea....it was a dunkin donuts blueberry one, dry and tasteless, I wasn't impressed..

[Ron Stevens]

i actually thought the dunkin donuts raisin bagels were pretty good though of course their coffee sucks

the toast places that do the egg for a buck that's a korean classic otherwise paris baquette do this fig bread i like

i've got a craving for bircher Muesli i wonder if anyone does this here?

[dncinartist]

Umm actually I LOVE kimchi fried rice for breakfast-(even better with eggs sunny side up!!) Got introduced to it while I was living in Hawaii- it's da best brah super ono! Sadly haven't had great kimchi since I moved back to Irvine.

[the1andonly]

I am sooo into Special K chocolate chunk right now. mmmmmmm

[VanIslander]

Koreans don't have breakfast food per se, and I have surprised the locals with the variety and distinctive dishes we Westerners have developed for mornings only.

In Korea I often alternate between

- hot porridge (Quaker Harvest Oats from the import stores, I stock up)
- cold cereal with milk (this is becoming more readily available in Korea these days)
- pancakes (Aunt Jemima brand with Canadian maple syrup or local jams)
- wheatlets (a light wheat-based porridge, sometimes grits, corn-based, my dad sends it to me)

With any of the above: some fruit, fresh (ideally) or from a can.

And once a week regularly, sometimes twice, I have:

- yogurt
- eggs fried with bacon, or
- scrambled with onions and bell peppers...
- hot egg sandwich on hot toast with cool lettuce
(surprisingly I have not had boiled eggs for years here, whereas that was the way I used to often have them quickly in the mornings... maybe it's because I don't work mornings here so am not rushed in the A.M.)

And once or twice a month there's:

-hash browns (i don't peel potatoes often enough)
-baked beans with an egg on the side
-leftover pizza
(cold the next day, yumm, a totally different pizza experience which makes Koreans look like they wanna hurl - they don't appreciate the thought of cold pizza in the morning, fine, I can't stand the thought - and have never had - gimchi in the morning, though a stirfry rice with an egg mixed in makes for a quick breakie the odd time.)

With many of the dishes I have

- fresh orange juice, or
- blended drink (mixing up those getting-old bananas often happens)

What I DON'T have in Korea but miss like hell:

- muffins !!
- sausages
- cheese and egg burritos

I eat Korean food often because I really like their lunch and dinner options. But when it comes to breakfast I start each day off right with a real meal in the mornings, the most important meal of the day.

[amanda114]

I have plain oatmeal with a handful of rasins and maybe some crumbled up walnuts..... EVERY DAY! Its a luxury I just can't give up. My day just doesn't seem complete without it. I will happily eat Korean food for the remainder of the day.

[mnhnhyouh]

I have the puffed wheat (rice, or maybe corn?) and use it as cereal, with milk. I have orange juice and a fresh short black espresso coffee from my machine most days.

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[The Hierophant]