Brekkie in Melbourne 墨爾本的早餐

Brekkie in Melbourne 墨爾本的早餐

My daughter @snooway, who came back last Saturday from Canberra for the weekend, took my wife and me to dine at a neighborhood cafe this morning. This cosy, small cafe on Canterbury Road, Blackburn, serves very decent coffee and typically Australian style breakfast.

We ordered three different dishes. My wife ordered Veggie Breakfast--scrambled eggs, with button mushrooms, roasted tomato, hash brown, house-baked beans and baby spinach.

Whereas my daughter chose "Three Amigos"--smashed avocado on toasted sourdough with poached eggs, haloumi, sweet corn salsa and chipotle dressing.

I selected the shop's signature dish: Charlotte's brekkie--bacon, scrambled eggs, avocado, topped with corn salsa and hollandaise on thick rye bread.

This brunch is certainly a treat to me. Tasty as it is, I as a sojourner in a foreign place start to miss what I normally have for my breakfast in rural Taiwan, such as mantou (steamed bun), baozi (stuffed steam bun), scallion crepe, pan-fried buns, congee (rice porridge), Taiwanese style noodle soup, lurou fan (rice with braised minced pork or soy-stewed ground pork with rice), shaobing (baked flatbread), youtiao (deep-fried dough stick).

今天上午，從坎培拉回來渡週末假期的小女@snooway 請兩老到附近的咖啡小館吃早餐。

我們仨各自挑選想吃的餐點。內人選了蔬果早餐，我點了店𥚃的招牌早餐，女兒則挑了名為「三好友」早餐。我們也各點一杯拿鉄咖啡。

這家館子空間不大，卻很溫馨，生意不錯。老闆是亞裔澳人，不諳華語，待客非常親切。

如此豪美的早餐與我和老伴平常在家手作的早餐差別很大。在館子𥚃吃著吃著，客居異郷的我不禁懷念在南投小鎮常吃的樸素、多樣、可口的早點：饅頭、包子、蔥油餅、水煎包、意麵、稀飯、滷肉飯、燒餅、油條等。

All photos taken with my iPhone7.
@tungjungchen