Yes. Ordinarily, I just call it “Chinese donut” or (somewhat redundantly) “Chinese fried donut”.
Is that really redundant, or is that (Eng-)Lishchin(-ese)? That’s just Chinese menu speek/syntax. Kinda like Twice Cooked BBQ Pork or Egg Foo Yung.
Another Dutchie here. I personally don’t have breakfast during the week, as I’m always late for work. In the office I just grab a coffee and wait until it’s lunch time, hoping that there is a birthday and someone brought cake.
In the weekend it’s a different matter. I either have some fancy rolls with filet américain or paté, or have an ‘uitsmijter’ or some scrambled eggs or omelet. Coffee and OJ goes very well with that.
Previously mentioned ontbijtkoek is handy for those quick cravings between 10 and 11 and 3 and 4.
Plain ham and/or cheese rolls are also very popular when you’re rushing out the door to catch the train.
Yes, I remember this from a school exchange to Madrid. I’m Dutch and was astounded that the kids has cookies for breakfast! Cookies! It was absolutely drilled into me in the Netherlands that you have to have something sensible (which btw meant savoury; full fat cheese or paté were “healthy” back then) before you could have a jam or Nutella sandwhich and then only on brown bread. Cookies just seemed the height of decadence.
I’ve never quite manage to lose the attidude either. Here in Italy, needless to say, the breakfast of champions is a cappuccino or machiato with a brioche (kind of a croissant but sweeter and less flaky). Those dipping cookie things exist here as well, as do cereals, but those are often flimsy and chocolaty or sugary. As I Dutchie I hunt the German discounter supermarket for proper real muesli. All that sugar just doesn’t feel like a ‘proper’ breakfast to me, though I have gone native to the extent that a savoury breakfast seems icky to me now.
Except for the pudding that looks like what i make for myself every Saturday.
Of course, then I don’t have to eat until Sunday night.
We sometimes also had toast and Jam in Germany in addition to the cornflakes, but I think this was a concession to my American tastes as my exchange brother had exchanged first and prior to me, and knew that we often ate cereal and toast, with milk. There was a choice between muesli and cornflakes, and I really prefer the muesli. All of that excellent fresh baked bread and they would buy Toast Bread especially for me. It’s ironic.
Hell, they might even have bought a toaster in '86 just because I was visiting. Makes me feel ungrateful.
Dear Lord, you people are making me drool. My stomach’s growling so loudly now that my colleagues are looking around in alarm for the bear that’s apparently been let loose in the office.
But here’s the question. Was that Toaster, a German Manufactured Toaster, or an Import, and is it still operating today?? That’s what I’d like to know. It seemed much different and very modern, in function, design, and engineering than an Old American Toaster. Probably, European made. Although, we had an American toaster that was older than my exchange student when he visited- Old American appliances from the 60’s and 70’s are some of the best ever made.
I’d like to see a Verhoeven or Herzog composition based on the conquest of the American Toaster and its permutations and imperialism simply titled “Verbraten”. But while the toast satisfied my American cravings, my German family were simply poshly transported to England. Which was the English dey learned.