The unpleasant odour forced us back into the ship’s interior, just in time for breakfast at the Main Dining Room. Was rather surprised that we were the first in the queue. Guessed the rest went with the all-you-can-eat buffet at Windjammer Marketplace. The waiter recommended their Danish pastries and croissants, so we got a plate of it. Pretty decent tasting if you asked me, will be better if warmed up first. Colleague had the Seasonal Fruit Plate and The Classic Benedict – two poached eggs, bacons and creamy hollandaise sauce on toasted English muffins.
Me, I opted for the Express Breakfast with two glossy scrambled eggs, not crispy at all bacons, very tough smoked sausage links, crispy hash brown and half a grilled tomato. Other than the bacons and sausages, I enjoyed the other three items.
Roommate wanted to go Windjammer Marketplace for the Milk and Yogurt. I had the peach flavoured yogurt and it tasted horrible, nothing like the fruit at all. Gotten the same answer from my colleague too. Pineapple one fared a little better but it won’t topple Meji yogurt from my list.
Tea Leaf Egg or Tea Egg (茶叶蛋) wasn’t prepared the correct way. Putting the whole eggs intact in the tea leaves soup did almost nothing for the eggs. The correct method is to boil the eggs first in water then crack the shell and boil/soak them in tea. Cracks in the shell allows the tea mixture to seep in creating the marble-like patterns and imparting the flavours. Sorry, I didn’t show you the deshelled egg as the shell was stuck to the egg white so there were many holes and “craters” trying to peel it. :(