You are what you eat. And it can save your soul.

My happy Saturday Breakfast

It sounds maniac but I have been planning and thinking about every Saturday breakfast throughout the whole week. Saturday breakfast is sure my favorite entry nearly all time. I was already excited on Thursday night to think about what to buy and the order to cook first and then so to make everything warm and nice when served. I mean, it's the first Winter Saturday breakfast that it's so cold out of bed and warm from the omelette. What could be better to have a nice warm cheese omelette and soft pancake (and watching home movie) on a cozy sofa on a lazy Saturday? If we are talking about pursuing happiness of life, this is my happiness of life. 

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Naturally waking up at 830am, I woke up with a great mood and perfect sunshine. Scrambling the eggs, cutting the tomato, pan frying the pancakes! It sounds like a good start of the day. Turning on the DVD player, playing the second half of You've Got Mail. Greg Kinnear says in the movie, "You are what you read. And it can save your soul." Well, I am reading "Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip" by Peter Hessler. I don't how it saves my soul reading a chinese factory manufacturing the brassiere wires. My twist on that line could be "You are what you eat. And it can save your soul." That's my own point of view. If the hustling life is sucking your soul, you need to get yourself a nice breakfast. That's the best way to save your soul back. By the beauty of food.

Sometimes, what you need is not a big thing. Not a great success or a big applause. You just need a nice breath of fresh air, an impressive line in movie, an inspiring chapter in book, or simply a nice boiled egg in the morning. No noise from vacuum, no hustle from traffic, and no one to bother you. Just you and your day to do your own things. Or I should say. Just me and my day to do my own things.  

Whenever I feel like my soul is dying, I look for sunshine, I watch my favorite movie, I read a great chapter of book that I bookmarked. And I make myself a nice omelette.

Meg Ryan from You've Got Mail (1998) - "What will NY152 say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail. From you. "

I hate to say I love McDonald's pancakes

You cannot deny it - a breakfast under HK$35 with pancake, sausage, eggs, hash brown, bread and coffee and home delivery without your ass moving out of home is great. And to be fair, the pancakes are very nice. warm and soft with butter and syrup. It may not be the best but the package is good and valued for its price. 

Personalizing your Sunday breakfast by moving the McDonald's breakfast to your own china

Okay, here is the perfect plan to make yourself a lazy Sunday with 8 simple steps:

1/ Wake up and make a call for home delivery of the McDonald's breakfast (2338 2338)

2/ Get back to bed and sleep for another 30 minutes

3/ Get the plates and your favorite coffee mug from the cupboard

4/ Get the delivery by the door without changing your PJs/ fixing your hair/ putting any make upand pay $33 

5/ Move the whole breakfast to  your china 

6/ Get back to the bed 

7/ Enjoy the breakfast in bed and read a book

8/ If you like, sleep for another hour 

The best combo will be buying yourself an onesie like the one Ryan Gosling wore in Ellen's show. Hey you tell me. What's better than wearing an onesie and eating breakfast in bed and all you need to pay is HK$33?

Okay, I want an onesie this year's Christmas now.

Ellen Degeneres and Ryan Gosling
in onesie

Where: Home

What: McDonald's breakfast home delivery

Tel: 2338 2338

Serving hour: Mon - Sun before 11am (last order 1050am)

Can you gimme a better brunch/ breakfast?

Last time attempting to go the Brunch Club that more than few friends recommended, we didn't make it at last as there were way too people and waiting in line for brunch doesn't make any sense. Today, Mira and I tried our luck to go there at one. Though it was still very crowded, we squeezed in and had our table.

Not sure if it was lucky or unlucky that we made it as I was utterly disappointed.

Start off, no one really seemed to care to serve us that I needed to walk to the waitress to ask for a menu. I ordered the Parma Ham Egg Benedict and Mira ordered the Waffles with honey and butter. Well, honestly, I am not sure if it's just me. Even it's a brunch/ breakfast, I want something big and full and nice. The most important thing is caring every bit of details.

So, this is the egg benedict from the infamous Brunch Club. Look at the hash brown. When you order an egg benedict, it is not just the benedict you're ordering. You're ordering the whole package - the hash brown, the green salad, even the salt and pepper and ketchup. Details are important when you pay nearly $100 for egg benedict. To be fair, the egg benedict was okay. But the hash brown is like the exact same that I could buy from the frozen section in Parknshop. I was expecting a bit more than that.

Parma ham egg benedict

And then this is the waffles with honey and butter that Mira ordered. I tried a piece. Ummm, it was okay. It was not even close to good and far far away from great. Good waffles should be a little bit crispy outside and soooo soft inside with strong taste of egg. And the most important part : freshly made waffles should have the best smell that can attract the whole restaurant's attention as if the waffles came alive and said "SMELL AT ME AND LOOK HOW GOOD I WILL TASTE!". That was just average.

Waffles with honey and butter

The brunch today made me miss the 24-hour breakfast in downtown LA. The Original Pantry Cafe. The 24-7 diner was soooooo nice with very warm and lively atmosphere and long history in town. It was opened since 1924 and the owner proudly claimed "Never Close. Never Without A Customer". It is a place you can get the biggggg nice american breakfast with eggs, pancakes, toasts, bacons, sausages, french toasts, potatoes, cheese omelette and all that. This is the kind of breakfast I would enjoy - You go with a morning hunger and you leave with a giant food baby.

The Original Pantry Cafe in downtown Los Angeles

Very old american style

Taste is just very personal, especially for your first bite in the morning. If anything, I think breakfast is the best meal among all. Brunch Club is not my ideal breakfast/brunch/whatsoever, maybe it's yours I don't know. There sure is a reason why many people return, but it just happens I am not one of them. 

P.S. I was so moody after the brunch and needed to cheer myself up by buying a donut from Marks and Spencers. The donut was actually goood. Haha.

Finished my last bite of egg benedict and goodbye

1/ Where: Brunch Club

Address: G/F,70 Peel Street, Central, Hong Kong

Opening hour: Mon - Sun 8am - 10pm

Tel: 2526 8861

2/ Where: The Original Pantry Cafe

Address: 877 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017, USA

Opening hour: 24-7 (YES!)

Tel: 213 972 9279

Website: http://www.pantrycafe.com/