Why Americans Eat Dessert for Breakfast, and the follow-up How I Stopped Hating Breakfast. I remember the first time I went to Taiwan there was a huge buffet as part of the hotel stay, it was broken up into sections. There was an American section with pancakes, bacon, eggs, etc. A French section with a lot of pastries and bread, and a German section with sausages and meats and such. I was the only Westerner looking person who spent all their time in the Chinese section, I had dimsum for breakfast every morning and it was glorious.