My breakfast of choice this time was the instant noodles with a fried egg and ham. Macaroni is also offered if you are not an instant noodles fan. Other toppings include Viennese wieners, canned meat, sausage, and Spam.  Okay, now that I’ve written them down in English, it sounds like something that they would serve in Alcatraz. But it’s actually very tasty and fills the stomach.

Pineapple bread is also popular in Hong Kong for breakfast and also for high tea. It does not contain any pineapple and does not have any sort of pineapple flavoring. It is called the pineapple bread because the top looks like a pineapple. The golden crust is flaky and sweet. The bread underneath is much softer than the white bread we get in the US. The Cantonese will usually put a pat of butter in between the pineapple bread. I decided to forgo the luscious pat. All of the Chinese/Taiwanese bakeries such as Nini’s Bakery and JJ’s carry pineapple bread.

One new breakfast item that I tried on this trip was the steamed sweet egg whites. I like to think that it’s healthy because it’s made of egg whites. The texture is extremely smooth, you can such the egg whites between your teeth smooth. The taste is slightly sweet and I detect a ever so slight ginger flavor. This dish is popular for breakfast and also good as a dessert.

Of course, what is a tea restaurant meal unless it’s accompanied by milk tea. The milk tea in Hong Kong is orange-ish in color and is flavored not with just milk but with evaporated milk and condensed milk. Al that dairy makes me a little nauseous so I usually will have a sip of someone else’s milk tea for taste and order myself a coffee. (Milk tea in background)

There are of course the usual dim sum items also available for breakfast such as congee and fried dough wrapped in rice roll. I’m surprised that there are no food on sticks offered for breakfast. Light bulb! If my day job doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll move to Hong Kong and open a breakfast joint that offers mini pineapple buns on sticks!