Now, thanks to the company we work for, AK and I have sampled many a hotel breakfast. And I daresay that we have had some of the best Malaysia has to offer (The Westin KL, namely, with its Japanese, Chinese, Western, Malay, Indian spreads and its antioxidant berry-yogurt parfaits and fresh fruit juice to order). The buffet at our splurge hotel, the Indigo Pearl, was also pretty good.
But our experience in Chiangmai was very personal, and altogether very different from all the other ones.
Beautiful celadon ceramicware.
Instead of the normal buffet breakfast, we were presented with a menu from which we could choose anything we wanted.
While perusing the menu, the wait staff brought us a plate each of these adorable little swiss rolls, pandan and some-red-berry filling.
I chose the soup rice, or rice soup, which is like Cantonese porridge, with pork. A warm, wholesome way of starting the day.
AK chose the pad thai. We both love that it came with raw beansprouts, which went very well with the fried rice noodles.
The sticky rice came in convenient little cups for wolfing down. The mangoes were wonderfully sweet and fragrant.
The sad thing is, although we spent three nights here we only experienced this once, as our tours departed too early. The wonderful hotel staff packed sandwiches, fruit and juice for us, but of course you can't compare that to a multi-course made-to-order breakfast like this.
But our experience in Chiangmai was very personal, and altogether very different from all the other ones.
Beautiful celadon ceramicware.
Instead of the normal buffet breakfast, we were presented with a menu from which we could choose anything we wanted.
While perusing the menu, the wait staff brought us a plate each of these adorable little swiss rolls, pandan and some-red-berry filling.
I chose the soup rice, or rice soup, which is like Cantonese porridge, with pork. A warm, wholesome way of starting the day.
AK chose the pad thai. We both love that it came with raw beansprouts, which went very well with the fried rice noodles.
And then - dessert! We were presented with mango sticky rice and platter of cut fruit, but sent back the fruit as, well, one can only eat so much in the morning.
The sticky rice came in convenient little cups for wolfing down. The mangoes were wonderfully sweet and fragrant.
The sad thing is, although we spent three nights here we only experienced this once, as our tours departed too early. The wonderful hotel staff packed sandwiches, fruit and juice for us, but of course you can't compare that to a multi-course made-to-order breakfast like this.
If only all mornings were like this!
Chiang Mai, we miss you.
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