RTW Roundup: Funniest hotel breakfast
Pousada Dona Zilah in Sao Paulo had the best breakfast, and I don't think I ever had a breakfast that I would be able to call "the worst." But certainly one breakfast deserves the title of "funniest."
We were in this Lao town called Muang Sing, in the far northern region on the border with China. This was our base for a trek to see some villages, as part of an 8-day tour. Though it's the biggest town for miles around, there still wasn't electricity for the first day we were there, and judging by the people we saw in town, there were only a few other foreigners staying here.
And we were pretty much the only customers staying at our guesthouse, Phou Iu 2. It's a group of maybe a dozen bungalows facing a central grassy garden area that doubled as the parking lot. There wasn't a reception desk; our driver just honked his horn and someone came out of their own bungalow to give us the key.
It was out of this bungalow that our toasted bread emerged, to complement some fresh fruit. The bread looks like French bread, but the crust is soft and the inside a tad sweet.
Along with bread and fruit, we got a choice of coffee or tea, and either fried egg or omelette. Here is the fried egg, on which my mom already poured some soy sauce.
Since I got the fried egg the first morning, I decided to try the omelette on the second day. My mom's fried egg came out pretty quickly.
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I waited and waited. The omelette must involve a lot of chopping of ingredients, beating the egg, etc. Or maybe they needed to learn how to make an omelette, since maybe it's novel in this area.
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Then I was thinking maybe they still needed to get some ingredients. Our first day, a man on a motorcycle drove out after we sat down at the breakfast table, and returned with half a bottle of cooking oil to fry the eggs with.
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Finally a plate comes out and it is... fried egg. Identical to the one that came out five minutes ago.
I couldn't stop laughing! They put in so much effort for my "omelette." It was a good breakfast in the end as I do like fried egg, and sitting in the open air bungalow surrounded by tropical plants made for a pleasant atmosphere.
