It’s generally fuel food that gets people going for the rest of the day.

Breakfast around the world varies from culture to culture. The word breakfast comes from breaking the fasting that we do as our body sleeps during the night.

However, it can even hardly qualify as a meal in some languages, even if it’s the most important meal of the day. Different cultures have also different menus for breakfast. Whatever the menu is, though, it must get you going.

See also

• Most influential breakfasts
• Typical American breakfasts
• Typical Asian breakfasts

It’s typically made of scrambled or sunny side up eggs for protein, bread, pancakes, or cereal for carbohydrates and minerals, and of course, coffee. Coffee has become a symbol of western breakfast, and it has spread around the world. While adults have coffee, children have fruit juice or milk.

Some adults even skip hearty meals and have only coffee for breakfast instead, which is not advisable. Nowadays, with young, single professionals, breakfast would mean ordering fast-food in the morning just before work.

It can also include steam rice breads, hot rice porridge with meet or vegetables on the side, and noodles.

Their famous hot beverage to go with breakfast is tea instead of coffee.

The rest of Asia like India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka have rice as staple food source for carbohydrates. Other variants of carbohydrate foods are bread, noodles, rice cakes, and rice derivatives. Rice is served with side dishes like fish, vegetables, meat, and poultry products.