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Foreign Grocery Friday: The Kaya Toast of Singapore

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

It can be tempting while traveling, especially for more than a week or two, to revert back to ordering the comfort foods with which you grew up. This maybe means eggs and bacon for breakfast or something similarly boring. Of course we urge you to overcome the temptation and, instead, take even more to the local menus. In Singapore, this means Kaya Toast for breakfast.

Kaya jam, which can be bought in jars in the grocery store, is a mix of eggs, sugar, coconut milk and pandan leaf. It's spread between two thin, toasted piece of bread and cut to neat rectangles. Adding butter is optional, depending on how decadent you feel.

Yes, it's green, but once you get over that and just bite in, you'll immediately forget the color for the flavor.

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Your First and Last Stop in Palm Springs Should Be Pinocchio's

Tis the season to head for sunnier, warmer climes. For many this means the Caribbean and Mexico while for others, they're keeping it closer to home in Palm Springs, CA. Since we know many who'll head to the desert on Virgin America's new route to Palm Springs, we're thinking it's time to let you in on a few of our own personal favorite PS secrets.

There's nothing quite like driving into Palm Springs, or flying in for that matter. From every which way, the scenery is beyond stunning. This is truly a desert paradise, and a playground all the same. It's not too difficult to understand the way we feel about the city, if you watch the bodacious Ann-Margret do her thing from 0:55-1:45 in this scene from The Who's Tommy.

"Today it rains champagne," indeed, and nowhere more so than at Pinocchio's, a restaurant in "downtown" PS that specializes in monster brunches washed down with $3.95 bottomless champagne.

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Pop-Up Brunch Club Tops London's Most Talked-About Restaurants

If you've been following our London coverage, you're surely noticed two prominent trends:

1. The prevalence of pop-ups.
2. The decided lack of decent brunch options in the city.

But there is a contingent of culinarians looking to change the latter, among which you can count Bex and Nick, the masterminds and master chefs behind the aptly named Gourmet Lovers Club. The duo is fanatical about good food and adept at serving up a stellar brunch, as we can attest.

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Three Airlines That'll Fulfill Your Krispy Kreme Donut Kravings

It's Wednesday—the middle of the week—and we're traveling. We need something to get through the rest of the week and you know what would do the trick? A sugar rush brought on by some Krispy Kreme donuts. It'd be even better if they were in-flight Krispy Kreme donuts.

Good news for us and everyone! Krispy Kremes aren't just limited to standalone stores and the occasional airport kiosk; some airlines actually do serve up the glazed masterpieces direct to your traytable. For this they get major brownie donut points!

Three airlines serving Krispy Kreme in the skies:

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Foreign Grocery Friday: The Chimney Cakes of Hungary

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Hold up your arm and look at your forearm. Imagine a twisted masterpiece of dough that's roughly the length of it, and about as wide. Sure, it's hollow inside, but the magic in a Hungarian Chimney Cake is that doughy diameter. It's like what would result if a pretzel and a cinnamon bun got romantic.

Of course if you're actually over in Hungary or Romania and hungry for this massive sweet—revered as the most historical pastry in Hungary—you should know it's called Kürtös Kalács. Cooked over an open-flame hearth, the sugar-crusted rings of yeast pastry are traditionally coated in sugar, but other topping options are coconut, cinnamon, walnut, almond, chocolate and sprinkles.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Freaky Deaky Dutch 'Hagelslag' Sprinkles

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Two words: CHOCOLATE SPRINKLES. They aren't just for kids anymore, and in fact, never really were since the Dutch adopted them as an alternative to Nutella. That's right; for breakfast (and sometimes lunch), millions of Dutch are sitting down to a helping of Hagelslag, or chocolate sprinkles covering a buttered piece of toast.

Hagelslag has a long history in Holland, as sprinkles are even used on little toast rounds to celebrate the birth of a baby (so much for chocolate cigars). The most traditional flavors are anise, milk chocolate or dark chocolate, although vanilla and fruit are also popular.

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In-Flight Eggs on United Make Us Appreciate Cereal Options

Alright we’re not really complaining—hey, we’re always pleased when we get bumped to the front of the plane when a free meal is involved—however, in-flight sausage and eggs on a domestic United Airlines flight are a far cry from the breakfast options found on international carriers like Virgin Atlantic.

We were headed into Chicago-O’Hare not too long ago, en route to somewhere in the nifty fifty when we were lucky enough to be served a little in-flight breakfast. It beats our usual choice of whatever granola bar type foodstuff we tossed in with the laptop, and when the flight attendant actually put a white “tray-table-cloth” on our tray table, we began the drooling.

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One Airplane Meal That Isn't Yucky: Virgin Atlantic's Full English

Whoa whoa whoa. We know, we know; it's totally weird for us to be liking an airline meal, let alone a breakfast airline meal. As much as we love to hate on things like the dreaded American Airlines croissant and these 15 disgusting meals, sometimes we can actually be taken by surprise when a flight attendant presents us with something edible and appealing.

On a flight shorter than others on which we've only gotten a greasy croissant, Virgin Atlantic shocked with a full English Breakfast. For the uninitiated, this means bacon, eggs, a grilled tomato, fried mushrooms, Wiltshire sausages, hash browns and a mug of tea. Typically baked beans are also added, but that must've only been for Virgin's Upper Class on this particular flight from New York-JFK to London-LHR.

As breakfast on overnight flights to Europe can be the most important meal of the trip (seeing as how you're not likely to sit and eat again for 6+ hours), we advise going for hearty.

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The Best Affordable Brunches in Copenhagen Right Now

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

Copenhagen is home to Noma, currently reigning supreme as the World's Best Restaurant for the second consecutive year. Noma's accolades have heightened the prominence of Nordic cuisine, which is being exported and ravenously explored by foodies the world over.

For all the innovations Noma's elegant, avant garde fare has offered to the culinary world, the city's best food is simply prepared with locally-sourced ingredients whenever possible. No fuss, no foam, just lush yet unpretentious dishes. No meal exemplifies this ethos more than brunch, enjoyed by locals on the occasional weekday as well as weekends.

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The Case of the Bacon Butterscotch Doughnut at Chicago's Nightwood

Tables at Nightwood in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood fill up quickly for Sunday brunch, but the best thing on the menu isn't even an entree. When you taste the rich, heart-attack-inducing bacon-butterscotch doughnut, you may want to order another one and ask for the check.

The savory-sweet treat is a must when heading here for brunch. But you'll also want to give the rest of the menu a try, after all Nightwood comes from the same folks who helm Chicago foodie cult favorite Lula Cafe.

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You Say Brunch, We Say Babycakes' Red Velvet Pancakes in San Diego

There's only one reason to come to San Diego's Babycakes for brunch: the red velvet pancakes. That's right, deep red hotcakes that taste like rich cocoa with a thick layer of cream cheese filling slathered between the stacks, drizzled with maple syrup and topped with strawberries.

It has a side of fruit, but you'll need to reserve as much room as possible for the filling pancakes. We were only able to finish one of the hotcakes (yeah, we're obviously not contenders for Man v. Food Nation)—of course, we took the rest home for later.

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Cereal Tastes So Much Better at 35,000 Feet

Alright it’s not quite the decadence of some of other airline in-flight meals, especially those Delta dining options on the overseas flights. However, any time we get some free food on a plane we just have to share.

We were lucky enough to get the bump to the front of the plane on a recent morning flight, and thankfully for once we weren’t forced to have a pack of Biscoff and an OJ to start our day. As you can see our fine dining included some cereal—it was probably generic Raisin Bran—yogurt, orange juice, and a not-that-gross croissant. It was probably the best cold cereal that we’ve ever had, simply because we got to enjoy it at 35,000 feet along with metal flatware, while reading the in-flight magazine.

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