Good morning, how do you want your eggs?

I admit, twice during my week in Chiang Mai I could not resist to go for "croissant & cafe au lait" for breakfast ... once even filled with chocolate. But I swear (with crossed fingers ;) it was only because my "Wanderslust" drives me already in the morning walking around the streets, and off course, because my favorite among local food stalls was closed during the last four festive days. It's a place by locals for locals, probably of Chinese descent, and they preferred not to make money but instead worshiped along the many visitors from all the country to celebrate the Great Buddha in one of the many temples concentrated in the old square of the city.

I remember visiting first time Japan, and my surprise to get a variety of small sweet and sour dishes including fish for breakfast. Well, +20 makes a difference. I do enjoy having rice, tofu and egg, together with a soup that is boiling in a big pot of vegetables and pork meat next the small tables and plastic stools. It's the variety that is fascinating and challenging at the same time. But maybe I am not yet sure if it is the distance only that travelling around-the-world brings along, where your favored Milchkaffee & Kipferl (cafe latte and Vienna-style croissant with butter and jam) is just out of reach ...

Sorry, one small addition regarding an ordinary "French Breakfast" just from the 7/11 supermarket around the corner. That way it does make sense to get up a bit later in the morning with that hungy-as-a-lion feeling to go straight for some local sweet+sour dish.