Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...woke up at 11, then I had lunch," Bolt says. "Some nuggets," he says. Yes, the greasy McDonald's kind. "And then I pretty much went back to my room, and slept again, for like two hours. Then I went back, got some more nuggets." It's the breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions...
...They do. It's a peaceful breakfast...
...some pictures. I'm not sure what corresponds to what. I give up on figuring out exactly what I'm ordering and relent to being surprised with whatever she slams down in front of me. The first is a tin cup of scalding, watery Ovaltine, followed by my surprise breakfast: a bowl of elbow pasta and beef swimming in a spicy broth studded with cabbage and salted vegetables...
...This is the quintessential Hong Kong breakfast. Even McDonald's and KFC serve noodle soups, usually with an inexplicable hunk of meat dropped in the mix. Instead of eggs and toast, you'd be more likely to have ramen with a hot dog thrown in. I leave happy and satiated, although unnerved by the waitress. Maybe she's just cranky, or maybe it's like France...
...third morning, I try breakfast again, ordering in Mandarin. Like the first waitress, this one glares and unhelpfully points to menus I can't read when I ask for help; she rolls her eyes when I ask for water, and she drops down my food with a tension that hangs in the air like the subtropical humidity here. I again give up on figuring out the menu, agree to something I don't understand, and end up with bowl of Ramen and pork chops. I wash it down with a painfully cloying iced tea. When I have a question...