17 Responses to “Breakfast in Singapore”

1. 1 1 Jonathan Kariv
   November 27, 2012 at 11:22 am

   10 and a diet coke please…

2. 2 2 Brandon Berg
   November 27, 2012 at 11:31 am

   The Chinese text on the left says, “Popular!”

3. 3 3 Val
   November 27, 2012 at 1:23 pm

   @brandon: although I think that probably refers to the beef burger with tomato :)

   (I quite enjoyed the taste testing of this unusual burger, over on NpR’s food blog, the salt: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/26/165923241/sandwich-monday-the-butter-sugar-burger . In the comments, someone mentions doing that with a pumpkin bun. Fried butter sticks have also made an appearance.)

4. 4 4 nobody.really
   November 27, 2012 at 2:02 pm

   Running late for an afternoon appointment in Japan, I tried to order the hot dog I saw displayed on a McDonald’s poster. They laughed at me; this silly gaijin doesn’t know that hot-dog-type food is for breakfast!

5. 5 5 nobody.really
   November 27, 2012 at 2:10 pm

   They eat a “butter & sugar burger” for breakfast? Great; now I’ve completely lost my appetite.

   So what am I gonna do with this doughnut?

6. 6 6 Ken B
   November 27, 2012 at 3:11 pm

   “So what am I gonna do with this doughnut?”

   Thou shalt not mock Canadian cuisine.

7. 7 7 Val
   November 27, 2012 at 3:36 pm

   @nobody. But that is sugar and frying oil! Totes different!

8. 8 8 Will A
   November 27, 2012 at 7:11 pm

   Making a meal with Butter and Sugar on bread? Seems like a piece of cake.

9. 9 9 Matt
   November 28, 2012 at 7:03 am

   This sandwich notwithstanding, Singapore may be the best place in the world to eat breakfast. It combines the typical items from an American/English breakfast with Indonesian/Malaysian/Chinese items, plus great tropical fruit.

10. 10 10 Eliezer
    November 28, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Here in NYC, the food police would shut this place down in a second.

    Thank God for the land of liberty!

11. 11 11 Mike H
    November 28, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    @Matt “It combines the typical items from an American/English breakfast with Indonesian/Malaysian/Chinese items”

    This is not always a good thing. Have you tried Roti John?

12. 12 12 Stan
    November 29, 2012 at 8:05 am

    This is a paleo diet nightmare.

    @Mike H.: Roti John is an interesting creation….

13. 13 13 Brandon Berg
    November 30, 2012 at 1:31 am

    Val:
    So it does. To be honest, I somehow completely missed the fact that there were two separate signs.

    When I was a kid, my mother used to make French Toast, and we’d put butter and powdered sugar on it. I guess this really isn’t that much different, unless it’s served cold.

14. 14 14 Steve Landsburg
    November 30, 2012 at 1:53 am

    Brandon Berg:

    The ironclad rule at our house was that if your french toast was served cut into quarters, you put jam on it, if it was served cut into bite-sized pieces, you put sugar on it, and if it was served as a whole slice (which you then cut with your own knife and fork), you put syrup on it. I wonder if my mother (who reads this blog) will want to dispute this, as she and I often have very different recollections of how our household was run.

15. 15 15 iceman
    November 30, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Eliezer #10: perfect :)

    Tradition at our house was butter, peanut butter, sliced bananas and syrup on french toast, waffles or pancakes. Not sure how it started but it’s a point of no return. I also confess when sufficiently hungry and in scavenger mode I’ve eaten a spoonful of butter right out of the tub…not bad when it’s slightly melted so nice & creamy.

    What makes the picture is the words “healthy” and “freshness”. Also the idea that people can be persuaded to purchase something by writing “it’s popular!”

16. 16 16 Bill Drissel
    December 3, 2012 at 12:04 am

    I’d have eaten such a burger for breakfast every day when I was a kid but my mother thought it criminal to put sugar on things that were already good – like cookies.

    by the time I had a house of my own, the idea didn’t appeal any more – sigh

    Bill Drissel
    Grand Prairie, TX

17. 17 17 Luke
    January 9, 2013 at 12:03 am

    I love Freshness Burger. By far the best burger chain in Japan. Way better than any American burger chain. One of the things I miss from Japan. And no, I have never had a breakfast burger, there or anywhere else.