When you have booked your china flights and have chosen the best looking china hotel, the next thing you will have to embrace, apart from the culture, is the food. Cooking and food is an art form in China which is generally taking really serious and they taken great time in preparing dishes. When you go for breakfast, it will not be the traditional egg and toast that you may be use to but there are dozens of breakfast combinations available to you. The breakfast combinations will vary depending on whereabouts in China you are. However, all of the variations have three things in common: extremely filling, fantastically fresh and wonderfully cheap.
Steamed dumplings with porridge
This dish is available all over China and is one of the most famous food from China but it is said that 
the dumplings from Hangzhou are the best. They are usually stuffed with seasoned park and apparently they are best served with a bowl of savoury porridge (which can be couscous) or rice pudding. They say that the most important part of this dish to get right is the sauce. This can be soy sauce, best vinegar and anything in between.
Fried dough sticks
This is obviously an unhealthy dish to consume but so many people start everyday by having them in the morning. This are merely nothing more than strips of dough that are dunked in a huge bowl of boiling oil and left to fry until crispy. It is thought that the fried dough sticks are best washed down with a warm cup of soy milk.
Wonton soup
Most westerners will be familiar of the wonton soup. This particular soup is quite a fragrant watery soup that is filled with loads of the smallest shrimps you can imagine and bite-sized boiled dumplings. Rumour has it, that it is best accompanied by something dry and filling.
Savoury pancakes
These can be referred to as Jian Bing savoury spicy pancakes. These particular pancakes are sprinkled in herbs and then finely chopped spring onions. The final stage is to fold it around a deep-fried crispy slice. This breakfast is perfect for eating on the run.
Roasted barley flour with yak butter tea
This originates mainly from Tibetan China, which everyone knows is very different compared to the rest of China. It is then no surprise that food will be as well with tsampa for breakfast. At first glance, this breakfast just simply looks like a bowl of sawdust but once it has been mixed ever so carefully with yak butter and butter tea it will soon become a highly nourishing and filling paste.
So why wait, come book your china tours today and embrace the Chinese breakfast world.
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