{"id":4995,"date":"2010-03-30T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:37:18","slug":"chinese-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/chinese-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My hotel<\/a> had a morning, buffet breakfast. The “daily egg special” was the same thing every day\u2014fried eggs. I\u2019m not a big fried egg fan to begin with, and the way the hotel cooked them (super runny yolks and crispy\/browned\/blackened whites) pushed me towards other choices every morning. But authentic Chinese food<\/a>, most of the time I didn\u2019t even know what I was eating, three meals a day for two weeks can be a bit much. So I tried explaining to the cook that I would like a scrambled egg. The result was a fried egg. The next day a different cook was doing the fried eggs so I explained to her what I was hoping for. She assured me that scrambled eggs would be coming my way. What did I get? Another fried egg. <\/p>\n

Finally, I used Google Translate to look up the Chinese characters for scrambled egg, wrote them down, and handed the paper over to the cook. Perfect scrambled eggs were the result. Yeah!<\/p>\n

The Chinese people sitting at my table (and the tables around mine) looked at my scrambled eggs like I was crazy. It was a look I became all too familiar with, but the scrambled eggs were fantastic.<\/p>\n

Notice the ash trays (four per table) in the above photo. The buffet went from 7 – 9 a.m. I soon learned that I needed to get there right at 7 and be done eating by 7:15 to avoid much of the smoking. By 8 the room was filled with smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My hotel had a morning, buffet breakfast. The “daily egg special” was the same thing every day\u2014fried eggs. I\u2019m not a big fried egg fan to begin with, and the way the hotel cooked them (super runny yolks and crispy\/browned\/blackened whites) pushed me towards other choices every morning. But authentic Chinese food, most of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}