Meals; The Day in Food

Breakfast varies, as it does in many parts of the world. It may be rice (often left over from the previous day) lightly stir-fried with shallots or with cooked chickpeas, eaten plain or topped with a fried egg and/or a little meat. Another possibility is mohinga, noodles with broth and flavorings, often topped with crispy fritters. And yet another is a South Asian–inflected breakfast called nan-piar bei, which is a tandoor-baked unleavened flatbread topped with tender cooked chickpeas or cowpeas and sometimes a little sugar too.