Korean Breakfast - Quarantine Edition

Sometimes you don't know you're different until you experience different. 

I have had 4 breakfasts here so far. Our menu alternates between sandwiches and juk (rice porridge). 
Normally, Koreans eat regular food for breakfast. What do I mean by regular? Well, like what they might eat for lunch or dinner. A solid breakfast for them would be some soup and rice, or at least a rice ball or kimbap (you might know 'onigiri' and 'california roll'; these are pretty much the same). 

It turns out, the States are a bit different. We have specific foods we designate as breakfast. (i'm not sure if this is a European thing? i feel like it is. if you know, i'm curious!) We have cereal, toast, bacon, eggs cooked in specific ways, pancakes, etc. And if we eat them at other times of the day it feels "special" because they're not regular foods. 

So sandwiches and porridge sound weird for breakfast, but here in Korea, it's normal. (and i believe there are plenty of countries that are the same way too?) 

Here's my breakfasts so far: 

It's very loosely like chicken salad. It's chicken bits, yellow cheese, 3 bread layers, lettuce, tomato, mayo. Lots of mayo. 
There's also, from left to right - milk, mango juice, Kellogg's chocolate chex cereal, shrimp crackers, bbq potato crisps. (i feel like the snacks were just given as extras. that's not typical breakfast fare)

Possibly the best breakfast ever! I'm biased. 

This is juk (rice porridge). This one was mushroom juk. It's got little bits of crushed dried seaweed and sesame seeds sprinkled on top. It comes with kimchi and a garnish (i treat it like one. it could be a side dish. i've forgotten the name of it. but it's chili sesame paste. i think there's ground up shrimp or squid in it). This came from Bon Juk, which is a popular chain restaurant that sells rice porridge. I used to get this once a week (and it also came with jangjorim - soy sauce braised beef with quail eggs. i can't wait to get more.)
With the porridge, there is soy milk, milk, and strawberry yogurt. 

The bag they put the sandwiches in is cute. 
This is milk, frosted flakes, the same kind of sandwich, mango juice, peaches (tastes like any ol' fruit coctail type fruit), and a baked donut. (the donut was really good) 

Today was shrimp rice porridge. I didn't open the containers, but it looks pretty identical to the porridge pic above. It came with froot rings and another baked donut (yay!). Froot Rings is Froot Loops, only the name has changed here. 

Koreans do eat breakfast cereal, mostly kids from what I was told. It's considered a kids' food. I'm sure they're including the cereal especially for us foreigners since it's familiar and "normal" to us. More Koreans these days do eat like toast or eggs for breakfast. (they love eggs) 

So that's 4 quarantine breakfasts so far! I'm sure others in other places are getting different things.