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The ritualistic English breakfast, how to experience the British life at home?

British breakfast rituals, lunch simple, dinner sumptuous, but called "food desert"?

When it comes to food, we basically think of Chinese food, Chinese culture is profound, in the world has a deep influence, China's eight major cuisines and a variety of ethnic minority traditional food, as well as a variety of snacks and snacks, completely let a person to eat to can not stop! But on the other side of the world, compared to China as a culinary destination, this country is called by netizens "food desert", a title that even their own people recognize.

This country is the United Kingdom, a mention of British food thought of only fish and chips, but their food system is really so single? Follow me to take a look at the three meals a day of the British, to see if this "food desert" title is worthy of the name.

Breakfast

British breakfast is actually world-famous, and the British breakfast culture is quite long and mature, and the locals are also proud of their breakfast culture. English breakfast is quite varied (of course it can't be compared to Chinese food), usually there will be fried food, bacon sausage and ham, fried eggs and roasted tomatoes and so on, basically you can eat a variety of cooking techniques in the English breakfast food. Plate up a full plate of these foods and serve it with bread and jam, or English black tea, and you've got yourself a ritualistic English morning tea.

Lunch

Generally speaking, lunch should be the meal with the most energy intake, but the British lunch is the most concise, many British workers will just buy a sandwich in the convenience store and get it done. Sandwiches are available all over the world, after all, it's quite simple to do, you just need two pieces of bread, and then to the middle of the sandwich food on it. There is also the most representative of the British lunch is the fish and chips, the British have an unusual obsession and love for it, its practice and our country's Ningbo noodles dragged yellowtail has a similarity.

Dinner

The present concept of healthy eating, dinner should be the least energy intake in the day, but obviously the British is the opposite, the British people pay great attention to the dinner, they believe that the dinner is the main meal, and only the dinner is a family sitting down together to eat the meal. The traditional British dinner is one meat and two vegetables, except for vegetarians of course.

"Meat" is any meat, such as chicken or beef, but it has to be meat as the main course, and roast chicken fries and beef braised in beer are favorites among Brits. Vegetarian" is a wider range, but anyone who knows a little bit about it knows that the British are very fond of potatoes and carrots. There are also a variety of fruit pies and meat pies are also loved by the British.

The British three meals a day seems to be okay, but in general you can see that the British food is on the greasy side, looking at the look of tired, although it seems to be a lot of fancy, but compared to the Chinese food, "food desert" is also the name of the game.