Breakfast in... Vietnam

There are multiple breakfast menu options across Vietnam, and usually the household will buy this from vendors rather than make it. Breakfast can be quite hearty, depending on whether one chooses to top their meal with a meat roll or pastries. Typical noodle breakfast dishes in Vietnam (which are usually served with a loaf of bread to dip in the soup) include 'pho' (Vietnamese beef or chicken soup based rice noodle), 'hu tieu' (rice noodles in a pork based soup), 'bun Hue' (spicy Hue style beef soup based noodles), 'bun rieu' (crab soup based vermicelli noodles) or mi quang' (prawn and pork rice noodles). 'Banh cuon' (crêpe-like roll made from thin, wide sheets of rice flour filled with ground pork, minced wood ear mushroom, and other ingredients, including meat loaves and sauce), 'banh bao' (savoury meat buns or sweet bean buns), 'banh mi' (Vietnamese cold cut meat loaf breads), 'banh mi hot ga op la' (Vietnamese French bread with sunnyside-up eggs). The term op-la is from the French oeuf au plat (which may be served with a hot meat ball soup)), xôi (orglutinous rice, either savoury or sweet), boiled eggs or congee (similar to the southern Chinese), are common breakfast meals in Vietnam. Often, the Vietnamese will drink coffee, tea, juice, or soy milk to complete their breakfasts.