Which Country Has The Best Breakfast?

I'm a believer that breakfast is one of the greatest meals of all time. And that's why today I'm on a mission to find the best breakfast in the world. Viewers from all over the globe submitted their favorite breakfast from their representative countries and thousands of votes later the results are in, and we're left with a top 12 that come together to meet today in one insane battle. The top four most popular dishes will have earned a bye, while the remaining eight will compete for their chance to move on through the tournament. The world's most beloved breakfasts are going to battle and we will find our champion, starting with our first matchup: Ireland versus the Philippines. Philippines with longsilog, it's garlic fried rice topped beautifully with a generous amount of fried garlic, longanisa, fried egg. Our favorite Filipino Chef Christian said to serve with sliced tomatoes seasoned with fish sauce and the commenters in our Filipino versus American breakfast called for achara, pickled papaya, and separately a dipping sauce made with cane vinegar and soy sauce, you know to cut the richness of all that garlicky fried rice and pork. Next up Ireland with the full Irish Breakfast. You've been asking for this for a long time, it's very simple. Black and white pudding, bangers rashers, baked beans, fried eggs, Fried Tomato boxty, and mushrooms. And we even got soda bread, served on the side with marmalade and butter. We ain't around brother. Our Guest taste tester today is David Douglass. He is an Austin legend known for trying all of the greatest restaurants and telling people all about it on Instagram and of course Pwince Vicwam, director and seasoned Channel taste-tester. Two unlikely competitors the Philippines versus Ireland. Honestly these are really strong contenders, I don't even know where to begin. I want to go Philippines I can't even say anything I want to just keep eating it that rice is incredible longan is incredible it's just a great combination of things I'm busting that makes two bust the rice unbelievably garlicky but not overwhelmingly so it's almost more of a fragrance than it is like some sort of blast in your face long Anise is fantastic it's sweet it's salty it's Umami fried egg only makes a beautiful sauce with crispness all the acutron it's wonderful there's so many different flavors and textures and they all go so well together and individually each bite is incredible no matter which component you taste there's nothing to not enjoy it's great when flavor town was founded this is what they had in mind they wanted that garlic they wanted the sausage they wanted these Town members coming together to form a sort of a town maybe a town of flavor you could call it okay I I I Rend I don't even know where to begin with this I know where I'm beginning soda me bread that's what I'm thinking too for me this one has the variety going for it it's kind of a playground for you to dip dive dunk I can't stop eating I keep eating something then I go back for something else it's all great flavors all combined into one amazing plate that I thought would be a bit too much I thought there's too many different components but all of them work really well together even the Filipino one same thing it's hard I'm hard what um this is really hard it's voting Time 1 two three unanimous wow Ireland I'm really sorry it's so tasty the unanimous vote it doesn't represent how close these were for me but I think we all put the slight Edge to the Philippines moving on the Philippines moves on powerfully to the next round to face Mexico but first we head to our next round one matchup France versus Colombia Colombia with arapa conos I've never had this before and I got to say these are two things that I love so I have a feeling this is a strong Contender two pan of sauté tomato and green onion add eggs seasoned taste with salt and stir until soft scrambled served with a hand formed fried white corn arapa crispy on the outside but tender chewy almost voluptuous on the inside and enjoy France with the corant I mean we know what this is right butter and dough rolled into multiple layers and once cut and baked crisp be Airy pastries that make me want to take my socks off and wiggle my little piggies I think we should start with France cuz it's the simplest you can dip them into a cappuccino if you want or eat them by themselves this is a good croissant the butter is buttering nice crispy Airy all the qualities of good croissant and I think a good breakfast as well so crispy part of me does want to americanize the croissant and stuff it with other things the French would be appalled well actually the French are finally evolving a little bit you know took them a while but they're on their way God bless them every laugh I get out of Josh he pays me another five nickels I've got a whole dollar now let's move on to the Colombian dish I like this if you are not from Columbia but you're used to like maybe an egg Andor bacon Centric breakfast it feels new you're so used to maybe like toast or hash browns with your eggs this is a great change of pace if you've never had this before I love this I also love that the eggs are deeply flavorful and they've got some vegetative quality to them it's nice the eggs are great everything that's combined into the eggs really elevates it past to very basic scrambled eggs the egg and the pepper mixture it's really working for me in way ways that other dishes haven't so far it's voting Time 1 2 3 what the eggs are great but you know it's just eggs when you're on the streets of France you're walking down and it's like 5: in the morning you just smell those buttery croissants that hits like nothing else that's why it just takes a slight Edge I have a retort just eggs is ignoring the tomatoes the peppers spices and the so that went into this delicious Colombian meal and that's why frankly I disagree with you I'm in between the two opinions here the croissant is so unique to France and there's nothing else like it so I almost wanted to vote for this but just personally I enjoyed this one more that means Columbia moves on to the next round onto our next match up Vietnam versus Turkey Vietnam coming with fa Vietnam recently did very well in our other video where we were looking for which country has the best sandwich now look although f is popular in the United States it's much lesser known as a breakfast item but we're told by a few Vietnamese Chef friends that in Vietnam it's a way of life lay thinly sliced raw beef on top of your cooked rice noodles pour over boiling hot broth to the beef garnish with Thai Basil sliced onion green onion Little Thai chili cilantro bra sliced beef and finally bean sprouts serve and enjoy turkey coming in with menamin we followed this recipe exactly from a YouTube channel Turkish food travel thank you for that you start by sautéing peppers and butter and olive oil followed with chopped tomato season with salt to break that down cook it down roughly crushed using your potato masher then gently stir in some scrambled eggs and very gently cook till the eggs are just barely set you don't want to overcook this add a little cheese on top optionally serve that with bread and it's that simple what should we try for first this one's giving a lot more breakfast energy for me so I'm going to get in here first that's insane it got really cold outside and this feels like such a nice warming presence this is a great breakfast to start off the day on any day I didn't know how the bread was going to go with it but that soft texture on top of another soft texture wasn't a problem it was just a really good taste whatever that light green spicy pepper in there it's like the perfect amount of heat and also the flavor is a little bit more subtle than a jalapeno you got cooked down concus tomato essentially red ball Pepper for a little bit of sweetness and then you have this green pepper that provides an herbaceousness a little bit more of a vegetable flavor but then there's the egg it's custardy it's juicy it's cheesy I mean it's kind of like everything that you like about many breakfasts in the world in one but it's funny you bring up needing to warm up because we have a bowl of warm fa which I would argue is maybe the perfect item for the winter this is light refreshing I can feel good about going along the day if I had this for breakfast but the menen is a flavor punch I don't know that I would say this is less flavorful less spicy it's definitely less spicy but I think f is all about Flavor they're both good in in their own right what do you think David never came here to taste anything he came here to eat time to vote 1 2 3 wow unanimous I'm not saying that this dish is better than this I'm just saying that this is a better breakfast dish than this I wish I grew up in Vietnam eating Fu for breakfast every day and Associated that with breakfast but unfortunately I didn't and so this eggy peppery bready dish just gave more breakfast energy to me I I couldn't help it I fully agree turkey moves on to the next round onto our final round one match up Brazil versus Australia two places I love but who is going to make it to the quarterfinals Brazil with pow Deo AKA cheese bread I could eat a thousand of these I'm not going to lie you need an oiled hand to get your dough balls separated placed onto a baking sheet baked at 350 fhe until they come out Rich golden and beautiful serve immediately with strawberry jam and black coffee Australia with avocado toast in our recent fast food breakfast video our friend Andy Cooks said that Australia loves and is known for its breakfast so Andy's here to describe the Australian avoc toast it has to be avocado on toasted SOS and a poach dig on top soft goat cheese and a nut seed topping called duer seasoned with salt and seasoned with lemon zist garnished with micro coriander and served with cold smoked salmon on the side back to you Legend Andy we love you and by we I mean me it's funny because this is clearly from Brazil but to me when I think of avocado toast I think of California so let's try one the powder cjo I thought this was going to be heavier coming into this but it's really light it's Airy I feel like I could eat three of them maybe four and this Jam that goes with it is a great pairing I'm not a fan of the coffee I'm not a fan of any coffee but that's besides the point this is great cheese bread and coffee in my head I'm like ah it's nice by far the best part for me is the texture It's like got almost like a Mochi sort of situation where you're like chewing it a little longer you think but you're enjoying every moment of it the jam the coffee sweet not sweet works just like the boys were saying I also like the saltiness that the cheese adds to the bread a lot of breads to me are often times UND salted this is perfectly salted this actually one of my favorite breads of all time this going to be a tough battle that said avocado toast I will say avocado toast is one of my favorite foods on Earth but having it next to the pwed cjo I don't know it's tough It's light and refreshing as well it's in a different way I would not be upset starting my morning with something like that it's a good texture it's a good flavor you know what avocado toast is it's exactly what you expect that's the challenge for me it's like there's no novelty Factor here I'm trying to put my brain into objective mode but it's just saying I've had that before I haven't had cheesy bread and jam before that's a new thing I want to latch on to that now we vote one two and three oh the odd man listen avocado toast is great and most times I would want it for breakfast one of my problems with it is it's kind of just is what it is you get bored of it really quick what I liked about the powder cjo is on its own it's delicious delicious with Jam but think of all the other things you can do with this this is such a great base you know I don't know if I could say the same thing about this it's fighting against something that has like how many components on it this is one the flavors are they're not similar but I'd say they're on like a similar level for me but the texture of the pow dejo is just so much higher for me it's more interesting it's something I'm going to be thinking about later today and you know after youat a couple of them I feel like you're pretty full I feel like I kind of have to work my way through the avocado toast nothing wrong with it I just prefer the Brazil one a bit more moving on sorry to Australia and our man Andy but Brazil deservedly takes the final spot in the quarter final matchups our first matchup of this round is a battle between two heavyweights Mexico versus the Philippines Mexico with Chile kiles this is our top vote getter today we have my Rojo recipe which features guo ancho and sorrano chilies the recipes in the in the description along with an even easier variation using a can of chipot lace we sent this recipe to Chef Alejandra at Estee one of the top Mexican restaurants here in Austin and she gave her stamp of approval she did mention that she tossed the chips and sauce together in a separate Bowl being careful not to oversaturate the chips to prevent sogginess great tip I don't know what to do here because if someone were like Josh what's your favorite breakfast it would be one of these two things you're in a tough position I on the other hand just want to eat food and I'm going to worry about the rest later that's crazy how good that is I would like to be baptized in this salsa I went on vacation recently and for 4 days I was out I had Chile killes every single morning for breakfast unapologetically it is incredible we'll get into this I don't know they're so different I feel sorry for us having to make this decision but I feel sorry for everyone that can't experience what we're eating right now cuz this is incredible I don't know what the to do here I think we got to stop thinking and start writing all right guys 1 2 3 wow this is not an easy decision I thought it would be going into this I thought it would blow it out of the water but honestly I couldn't stop eating that garlic fried rice I couldn't stop eating the longa even though the chil Heil is I feel like flavor-wise was a little higher but this is just such a good balanced breakfast for me it came down to one factor only these right here I couldn't stop eating these if this was on that whole different story despite the chili killes being very good couldn't top that for me the way I looked at it was if I was at a restaurant and I saw both of these on the menu I would pick this over this every time chili kace is everywhere but how often do you see a great Filipino breakfast somewhere so Philippines moves on to the next round our next matchup is the 12th seated Columbia versus our fourth seated India India with masala dosa breakfast varies widely depending on where you are in India but most votes from you went to the masala dosa filled with spiced potato and onion mixture served with a coconut chutney and sambar a spiced lentil stew from South India really tasty wow I grew up with this masaladosa is such a classic it has so many good flavors and different options you can choose from while still just being a light vehicle to eat it's really balanced there's a lot of good flavors but it's not too heavy you can eat that whole thing for breakfast and feel good about it the rest of the day it's fragrant got a little crunch it's got a little chew you have the creaminess of the mashed potato it's a little spicy it's a little sweet the auton on the side just an extra layer of flavor a little bit of hydration to it even though it doesn't need it not dry at all really good and then when you do the dunk now half of the crunchy Isn't So crunchy anymore it's a lot going on and it all works together but it's going up against a heavy hitter will it be enough to overtake Columbia this is a tough pick but it's time 1 2 3 unanimous although the araba com W us are delicious this is just super unique there's nothing in the world like this I could eat this every morning I can eat it every morning I could also eat it for lunch and dinner it's just something that keeps you entertained the whole time you're doing I agree I've done that and it's fantastic you can mix and match what's inside you can mix and match the acont it's a great dish India moves on to the semi-finals against the Philippines now to our next quarterfinal matchup USA versus Turkey USA the full American breakfast this needs no explanation big fluffy pancakes to with butter maple syrup a plate of bacon hash brown and scrambled eggs it's a Timeless staple but is it really going to be able to stack up against our contenders today I love seeing these two dishes in front of each other cuz they're so incredibly different funny enough the American one looks a little anemic just because there's such a lack of color I like that there's like red and green and peppers and this nice rustic bread beautifully in a bowl is kind of telling a cultural differences should we start with this one yeah Jesus David you can eat as much as you want after this we're making a sandwich M I will say there's no combination on Earth that's more more iconic in The Breakfast world than bacon maple syrup fresh pancakes what's more iconic than that back to the menen just to refresh my memory here all right it's so tough cuz these are classic flavors but compared to all the flavors we've had today all these new diverse flavors that I'm experiencing it doesn't hit the same I think I'm getting hit in the head with sweetness and fat which I do love but when you introduce other flavors then suddenly those kind of turn from a bright light to a kind of a gray dullness you know ready 1 two three unanimous again I love both dishes but the sweetness and the fat it just didn't compare to the araceous the spice of the Turkish dish yeah this warmed my soul but this danced on my tongue one more thing look how fast this comes together if you want to make this you need to cook bacon you need to cook hash browns you need to cook scrambled eggs and you need to cook pancakes all in separate pans by the way this is kind of a high effort all that to lose to a one pan wonder and the one pan Wonder moves on a big upset turkey continues its Journey towards the crown with a triumphant win over USA onon the quarterfinal matchup brazils versus England number two England with the full English fry up we've seen this video before all right I have a whole recipe for this and it is that exact recipe except we did include black pudding and bubble and squeak we wanted to keep it OG onto a large plate spoon of generous portion of Hines beans separating the rest of the plate with a sausage wall lay down your eggs mushrooms English bacon black pudding bubble and squeak fried bread finish with brua tomatoes and some fresh cracked black pepper the full English breakfast I'm trying to get everything in one bite that's my strategy here is build up sort of a tower of Babble sort of situation now that guys I will admit quite delicious getting all the flavors together it really gives you an appreciation for all the small individual kingdoms of England that came together to make this beautiful dish probably a lot of people died oh certainly I think that's mostly what I'm tasting here he had the experience of putting everything together and having a great time I had a great time having everything separate and it's just as good there's a lot of components on here I didn't really touch the beans but everything else on here is really good individually and I keep coming back I think that says a lot about this dish I'm one of the most indecisive eaters you'll ever meet anytime I go to restaurant I will order almost everything off of the menu that may seem gluttonous but the funny thing is it's not so much about volume of eating it's more so volume of choices and what I love about an English breakfast is it has many textures and flavors and proteins and carbs and starches and crispy and chewy and fatty and juicy and so on and so forth if I'm going out to breakfast and I order this I don't need to order anything else I live in fear that my tower of English breakfast will be the best thing I've had today and nothing else will be able to compare but that's something I'm just going to have to live with unless we find something better could be Brazil one two three unanimous I mean it's not really a Fair competition the pow cjo originally up against the avocado toast was the simple one over the complicated but in this case the complicated one because of the variety of choice and it was all delicious I'm so happy with this I feel like I could eat this every day it goes to show you just when you think you've got it figured out you don't true on to the next and England takes our final spot in the semifinals now it's getting serious with only two more matchups until our final round starting here with the Philippines versus India we are now in the semifinals with two incredibly beautiful unique breakfasts totally different from any American breakfast I think we just need to refresh oursel here it's going to be so hard to beat that India this is a crazy matchup they're both flavor powerhouses I really thought this would be a matter of which one do I want to keep eating but unfortunately both of them I want to keep eating it's also tough to compare cuz they're really so different this one has more sweetness more fragrance this one has all the spices and aromatics and they both have a ton of textures too they're so different and one and the same at the same time all right I have my answer whoever wins this could win the whole thing one two 3 waa India it was a great journey and I really feel like it had a chance to win the whole thing but for now we move on to our semi-final round England versus Turkey England you have a lot of opportunity to win here because you've got eight plus elements the Minimon has two the dish and the bread let's begin back to the Menan this is tough I feel like the texture bar is a lot higher on the English breakfast but the flavor bar is a bit higher on the turkey breakfast I feel like the flavor on the English breakfast it has a ceiling but there is a lot to love about the English breakfast I'm definitely feeling the fact that we're getting into the finals rounds here and this is becoming a lot more difficult just remember whatever you choose don't worry you're probably going to disappoint a whole culture if you have an immigrant parent you're used to that 1 2 three Oh I thought it was going to be another Clean Sweep for turkey the only reason I chose the England one was simply because there are more combinations on this plate and you're going to scoop this bread in there 30 or 40 times until you're done at some point it's just going to be the same thing over and over and over that will not happen with this and here's the kicker this was the thing that really sold me the brua tomatoes provide the same effect that this does if you take these Tomatoes the eggs mix them together and put it on toast now I'm not saying the flavors are the same but just texturally a little bit of tomatoey sweetness some egg you can get almost there I think I see what you're saying for me this is like an amusement park I'm dipping I'm diving I'm combining things in different ways which is great but for this I'm just going on the same roller coaster again and again but it's the one that goes the fastest goes the highest comes crashing down with the peppers and it turns out I'm an adrenaline junkie when it comes to breakfast as I said before there's I think a bar to where the flavor can go on this one at a certain point it hits a limit and this one it just keeps going it keeps building and I don't get bored of it granted it's like one of the first times I've had it but I think I'm going to want it again over and over and over this has now become one of my favorite breakfast dish it's a sleeper and I think it deserves its top spot and there it is turkey medaman battled its way all through and takes its rightful place in the final match up against the Philippines we have two underdogs these were some of the least voted for dishes and yet both of them made it to the finals I'm going to get in here first I give some an examination to that now the Mena men all right I have my answer you guys take as long as you need Roo's trying to hit his minimum caloric requirement today as soon as possible oh my God this does not help you make a decision whatsoever does it now that I've gone into the depths of my piggy nature I know what I need to do 1 2 3 oh my God the wind goes to the Philippines for the best breakfast so many different cultures so many different ingredients Philippines got a deserved wind it climbed all the way from the bottom all the way to the top just like turkey did which was a very very close second I feasted on both of these meals and only one dish had pork and it was sweet pork with garlic rice with pickles and all those Sensations despite how good the dish from Turkey was despite me loving every minute of eating it I had to give it to the Philippines there's a winner here but I think the real winners are us both of these are fantastic dishes every dish we had was incredible really hard decision to make but at the end I just had to give Philippines that slight Edge because the flavor the texture combination was just that much higher but I'm not disappointed at all in our second place Choice there are many other breakfasts out there maybe there is one better than this but we went off the list that we got from you guys so thank you for that thank you for voting congratulations to the Philippines for best breakfast bye subscribe n