Post by Ella
Time: We are 15 hours ahead of New Mexico. Who knows what time our bodies think it is.
Breakfast: our hotel offers a choice of Japanese style breakfast and western style breakfast. We went Japanese of course.
Picture below. Tomorrow maybe I’ll remember to take the tops off before taking the picture. Like I said, still dazed. It was a little bit of everything that I’d never heard of and still don’t know the names of.
You have your Japanese porridge in the larger brown bowl on the left. It is short grained white rice in a broth with egg drop which you can’t see because I didn’t take the top off 🤷🏼♀️. The host saw Grubb enjoying the porridge so much he was offered another bowl. Slurping is rewarded.
Above the porridge (also with the top on) is miso soup. My favorite. Behind that, the white and blue bowl, a kind of root tasting something like water chestnuts but firmer.
In the rectangular box…small slices of ham, a wedge of salmon (cooked), a round ball of rice wrapped in seaweed – very sweet, might have been mochi. And some other stuff.
In front of the rectangular box, a small plate of crunchy sort of pickled vegetables and a cherry soaked in something.
There you have it. A whole lot of unnameable yet healthy and filling goodness.
I like the looks of that breakfast, like you said healthy and filling 😋
That breakfast looks great. I was not familiar with Japanese porridge (okayu) similar to Chinese congee (also was not familiar with that). I read a mystery set in old China (Judge Dee) where breakfast was morning rice, lunch was noon rice, dinner was evening rice.
Looks delicious. Also huge. I can’t imagine eating all that food first thing in the morning. When we stay at B&Bs, inns or boutique hotels in the UK there are minor variations on the “full … breakfast” on the breakfast menu. Fill in the blank with “Scottish,” “English,” or “Yorkshire.” But they are all essentially baked beans, grilled tomato half, cooked mushrooms, an egg, sausage or black pudding (north of “the border”), toast and tea. Huge, greasy, disgusting. We never order it.
Thankfully nothing greasy here. Not even the tempura.