Quite Euro-centric article ... France, Italy, England, Spain and ... Japan.

But it's a good observation, "a decent breakfast" is a very cultural thing. I remember having issues with the breakfasts in China, they were just so different. Well, that goes with the food in general there, but maybe particularly the breakfasts. I enjoy Chinese food, but after staying there for several weeks there was like something missing. Every now and then we just had to go to some restaurant serving western food, it was particularly fantastic to eat pizzas in Beijing. Our Norwegian "Peppes Pizza" had an outlet in Beijing back then, I'd never imagined I could enjoy Norwegian pizza in China that much ... best visit to Peppes ever. Due to visa regulation (we had a dual entry visa) we were once staying one month in China and then one week with my wifes parents in St.Petersburg, and just as we had returned to Beijing and taken a taxi from the airport my wife complained ... "oh noes ... now we have to eat Chinese again ..."