Noodle soup for breakfast

Breakfast of champions at Anantara Resort in Thailand’s Golden Triangle. Photo by David Lansing.

At home I seldom eat breakfast and when I do it’s usually to pick at some of the leftovers from last night’s dinner. I love cold pizza and a strong cup of coffee. Or cold chicken and orange juice.

So Thailand is perfect for me because they serve dinner for breakfast: fried rice, steamed fish, pork-stuffed buns, and my favorite, noodle soup.

Noodle soup is the best breakfast in the world. It’s got everything in it: a fragrant broth, some veggies, rice or egg noodles, and usually a little bit of protein.

At the Anantara resort, they actually have a noodle soup station for breakfast where you can tell the guy exactly what you want in your noodle soup. I was standing there this morning looking at all my options (so many noodles! So many veggies!) and, having no idea what to ask for, told the chef to just go ahead and make me up a noodle soup like he’d make for himself. Which pleased him.

I went back and sat down at my table, ordered a fresh squeezed mango and orange juice and a Thai coffee, and before my beverages had even arrived the chef was back with a fabulous-looking noodle soup. Which tasted even better than it looked.