On: What kids around the world eat for breakfast

[vram22]

When I was in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) for a while, I tried out some restaurants and foods of various cuisines. (Many of the malls in KL had food courts with different ethnic food specialities.) Quite good. Roti canai (pronounced roti chanai) was one good item (among many - mentioning it because it is a breakfast item, the topic of this thread). It is like an Indian paratha, but with a bit more fat/oil used to make it. In the places where I ate it, they served it with an egg spread and cooked into the top surface of the roti. Almost a breakfast in itself, with some tea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti_canai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratha

Or what I ate could have been roti telur, since it had egg in it (according to the first Wikipedia article above).

[janineyoong → vram22]

That is, in fact, roti telur! you can fold in a variety things into roti canai:

- roti bawang (onion) - roti sardin (canned sardines) - roti pisang (banana)

I had a roti pisang at home in KL last month and nearly wept at the impossibility of finding this anywhere else.

[vram22 → janineyoong]

Cool, thanks for confirming it. Good to know about the other variations of roti canai. Hope you find some of those items you like in other places eventually :)