Breakfast:

This has become a really strange area of gastronomic experimentation. It would be fair to say that most hotels inChinawill offer a stomach-churning array of harsh spices and hot foods – first thing in the morning! This will be accompanied with rice or cold noodles (plusher hostelries may have full English breakfast on offer). It is hardly the most appetizing of starts but a short venture out of your hotel and you’ll find easier to eat, bread-like donuts on sale at hardly any cost at all. It’s also quite common to find soups sold in the early hours and you may find a fried egg option in your neck of the woods. If you stay a while or begin a new chapter of your life inChina, you’ll find some cereal boxes on sale at your local (big) supermarket. The non-native food store that has made an impact inChinais French-ownedCarrefour, which has jumbo branches in all big cities. They stock many Western goodies and are a favourite for foreign residents. (See alsoFoodfor ordering Chinese meals).