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Culinary Ambassadors: Breakfast in Taiwan, Shao Bing You Tiao

Perhaps the most iconic breakfast in Taiwan is 燒餅油條 (shao bing you tiao) combined with soy milk. The first being the brilliant combination of a baked pocket of dough and a fried cruller prepared in ammonia bicarbonate (yum), and the latter being, well, milk from soybeans.

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French Toast at Finn's in Salt Lake City

There are two kinds of dressed-up French toast: French toast with stuff on it, and French toast with stuff in it. I generally find myself more a fan of the latter, so I loved the Jule Kake French Toast ($8.49) at Finn's in Salt Lake City, which might be called a Scandinavian diner. Here, the "Norwegian Christmas Bread" is laced with raisins, citron, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon, dipped in a simple creamy-eggy batter and griddled golden brown.

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Culinary Ambassadors: Breakfast in Singapore, Kaya Toast

Kaya toast is ubiquitous in Singapore and can be found in hawker centres, kopitiams (coffee shops), and shopping malls. Kaya is essentially a coconut jam—coconut milk cooked with eggs to make a thick, luscious custard. Sometimes it's flavoured with pandan (the "vanilla" of Southeast Asia), which gives it an aromatic fragrance and unmistakable taste.

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Spiced Doughnuts with Cardamom, Coffee, and Orange

We all know that coffee and doughnuts are a fantastic combo, but recently I was day-dreaming about coffee doughnuts, doughnuts infused with the rich flavors of coffee. It seemed like a great idea but one that I'd never seen in all of my years of doughnut eating, obviously a doughnut experiment was in order.

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Red Velvet Pancakes from the Buttermilk Truck in Los Angeles

If you needed an excuse to eat cupcakes for breakfast, here you go. The red velvet pancakes from the Buttermilk Truck, which serves breakfast and late-night food around the Los Angeles area, are essentially cupcakes, but flat. Even the cream cheese butter is more like frosting than actual butter. They're fluffy, cakey, insanely moist, and filled with chocolate chips, a nod to red velvet's usual cocoa element, that melt inside like a fresh-from-Mama's-oven Toll House cookie.

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La Cocina de Consuelo: The Best Tex-Mex Breakfast in Austin?

The best breakfast tacos and migas in Austin? It was a difficult, tortilla-filled quest. So many taquerias and roadside stands claim to have the best. But we found one of our favorites at La Cocina de Consuelo, where you'll actually see a hair-netted Consuelo, or Connie (Rodriguez), in the kitchen making everything to order. If you get there before 11 a.m., she's wrapping breakfast burritos with her pressed-that-morning tortillas: steamy, chewy, and freckled with tiny brown bubbles.

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Culinary Ambassadors: Breakfast in the Philippines

SE'r Foodicles reports: "Silogs are probably the most iconic breakfast in the Philippines. Silog is two words combined: sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog (egg). The fun part of the dish is the protein...."

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Hotcakes from Pamela's in Pittsburgh, PA

Hotcakes were always synonymous with pancakes for me, but that was until I tried hotcakes from Pamela's, a cash-only breakfast-and-lunch diner with six locations in the Pittsburgh area. They are completely their own thing, somewhere between a crepe and pancake, with all the good qualities of each—slightly spongy and buttery to boot, with that brown lacey pancake design on the surface. But the best part of all are the crispy edges.

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Culinary Ambassadors: Breakfast in France

Traditional French breakfast fare includes a tartine — half a split, buttered baguette with your choice of conserves (jams) to dip in your very own bowl of café au lait or chocolat chaude (hot chocolate). Croissants are not an everyday item, but for those not counting calories, you'll see them at the table as well. Dipping is not only reserved for kids. Fully grown adults do it, too (it's not uncommon to see men in business suits dip the corner of a croissant into their coffee). Let's not forget the obligatory glass of juice (orange or multi-fruits seem to be preferred by most) and a quick expresso (espresso) to prepare an eater for the day.

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Got Leftover Bagels? Turn Them Into French Toast

Despite the ubiquity of bagels in delis and supermarket freezer sections across the country, there aren't that many "second life bagel" recipes. Challah is often used for French Toast and bread pudding—bagels, not so much. Yet so many places are littered with spare bagels, since the temptation is always to buy a dozen, even if only six people work at the office and two of them are on Atkins. So what about using a bagel to make French toast? I can hear Linda Richmond in my head now..."This French toast is neither French nor toasted! Discuss!"

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