Locations that serve a "good" Amercian / English breakfast.

[dtaai-maai]

This is such a recurring thread. 8 years old, 250 posts, almost 33,000 views.
It underscores such an ingrained cultural need of western ex-pats. We can happily eat Thai food for lunch and dinner, but for breakfast we need the comfort food of our childhood.

I take your point, but in my childhood I was much more likely to have a bowl of cereal or a piece of toast than a full English breakfast!

[Big Boy]

Not really, many places do a mix of Thai and Western food at other times of the day. Many places are not open that early.

An English or American breakfast is a little different. The ingredients of a proper breakfast are fairly specialised, and probably cost restrictive to many Thais. There's nothing worse than sitting down for an English/American breakfast and being served lightly cooked eggs, a plastic sausage, and plastic ham garnished with a lettuce leaf.

Personally, my diet contains a mixture of nationality food, not just Thai or English/American, but to find an authentic English breakfast is difficult. Also, because of cost restrictions/custom for said breakfast, places serving it will be limited.

My diet today:

Breakfast - Scottish
Lunch - Thai
Evening Meal - Mexican.

[HHTel]

This is such a recurring thread. 8 years old, 250 posts, almost 33,000 views.
It underscores such an ingrained cultural need of western ex-pats. We can happily eat Thai food for lunch and dinner, but for breakfast we need the comfort food of our childhood.

I take your point, but in my childhood I was much more likely to have a bowl of cereal or a piece of toast than a full English breakfast!

I can empathise with that. I can't remember ever having bacon and eggs etc for breakfast as a kid.
Cereal
Toast
Boiled egg and soldiers
Porridge
Poached eggs

I can't think of anything else I would have been given. 'Full English' as it came to be known didn't appear to me until I left home. Seemed to be the standard food in a 'greasy spoon' and roadside cafe's. I'm pretty sure that if I asked for a 'Full English' in the 60's, nobody would know what that was.

[Big Boy]

HHTel and DTM, you're probably right. We might have had the odd fried breakfast on special occasions, but it wasn't until I started travelling with the MOD in the mid to late 70's that I started encountering Full English Breakfasts.

I guess it was an early product of package tours to the Mediterranean.

[lindosfan1]

DTM You are right I never had a full english until I joined the army, after leaving the army a full english would be the occasional lunch. Coffee and toast in the morning.

[benmo]

Did a paper round in the late 50’s and mom always did me a fullish English after and before I went to school. This stopped when I started to work!!

[Dannie Boy]

Did a paper round in the late 50’s and mom always did me a fullish English after and before I went to school. This stopped when I started to work!!

That was in the days when you had real sausages and bacon - although you can still get something similar now in the UK (at a price), it’s virtually impossible to get the equivalent quality here in Thailand


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[handdrummer]

I'm unaware of anything resembling a typical American breakfast. There are so many regions, each with different foods and ways of preparing them, that there isn't an American breakfast. You could make a case for, if they could afford it, bacon, eggs and toast or cold cereal in the summer and hot cereal in the winter, even then there are so many varieties that you can't pin one down. Also, foods change through the generations and, if nothing else, America is a land of change. As for me, growing up poor, as a child, I rarely had breakfast until I was in my late teens.

[Big Boy]

Just had what I consider to be the best ever English Brekkie in Hua Hin. New small restaurant in Soi 94 called Kanchana kafe. Is located in the small Soi's on the way to Yammsard school.

I had the standard breakfast B125

2 Eggs, 2 rashers of bacon (no fat), proper pork sausage,hash browns,baked beans,grilled tomatoes.toast including good quality coffee with warm milk.

Was excellent the best I have had in Hua Hin. Also a small clean terrace with fans to sit out and enjoy the food.

I am not in any way connected to the restaurant just an occasional english brekkie eater, happy to share a good experience.

Will most certainly go back.

It took about 5 weeks, but the Big Boy clan has paid a visit today.

First impressions - easy parking, very clean and decent menu.

3 of us ordered the standard breakfast with black pudding as an extra. The 4th ordered the BIG breakfast.

Coffee and tea were very good - daughter-in-law said it was the best tea she had tasted.

Breakfasts looked good, with English beans. Only one dislike, and that will be down to personal preference. The hash browns were deep fried too long. Hard and very oily. Sausage not as good as Pats place, but acceptable - certainly not the dreaded plastic. Bacon was good and eggs are eggs. Toast was thick sliced, with the best tasting butter I've had in Thailand. Service was with a smile.

Excellent value for money. My preference is still Pats Place, but we will certainly use Kanchana's CaFe again.

We were the only customers, but there were 3 visits for take-away food, so quite popular.

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[centermid7]

^ this place lost me as a customer (nay, no details on here) but no matter as I now go to Jenny's café on Soi 88 right in front of the Terminal apts. The have several breakfast options at 120 Bt and all the good coffee you want.

[Big Boy]

Do they include real sausage (not plastic), bacon and black pudding? If yes, we'll visit at some point.

[Nereus]

^ this place lost me as a customer (nay, no details on here) but no matter as I now go to Jenny's café on Soi 88 right in front of the Terminal apts. The have several breakfast options at 120 Bt and all the good coffee you want.

If that is the place that I went to 3 or 4 months ago I can also recommend it. The lady spoke good English and her teenage daughter is running the place. Sit inside or outside, good coffee also.

[Big Boy]

I remember you needing an oil change after Kanchana's CaFe - thankfully, apart from the hash brown, that was not a problem today.

I don't remember you going to Jenny's cafe. I'll do a search to see if anything comes up.

[Big Boy]

Search turned up nothing.

[Nereus]

Search turned up nothing.

Who is "you"? If it is me I never posted anything about Jenny's Café previously.

If "you" is centermid7, better ask him.