Breakfast (not Breakfest) in Colombia

So after a Saturday night out in Bogotá with my Colombian friends we were feeling a bit hungover. We went to search out some breakfast which in Colombia is probably just as exciting as the rest of the food. 

If you're bored by food talk then move on now. This is literally just descriptions of food. Haha.

So.....The bakery round the corner from our hotel had 'huevos rancheros' which turned out just to be scrambled eggs with fake cheese on the top. Perhaps not in the Mexican style we'd hoped for...

The other breakfast dish which I can approve of is the calentado. It's basically just rice and beans with the occasional hunk of fat or meat. Served with a cold, hard arepa (like most meals in Colombia) and a dodgy sausage. In this case with an egg on top or you can usually also choose carne which is typically a bit of steak. 

I immediately passed on the sausage and cold arepa to the homeless man outside and at lightning speed he ate the sausage and put the arepa in his pocket. Yep even hungry homeless people aren't that keen.

While I'm on breakfast here's a few other breakfasts. This one is eggs, calentado, plantain and a cold arepa.

And eggs, cold arepa, white bread (almost all bread has sugar here! And a weird sweet smell) and tasteless cheese. 

We've also had a few soups for breakfast. And a specialty here is a soup/stew with ribs but we're yet to eat it. Another one which we have had is called Changua and is a soup with milk and eggs with hunks of stale bread in it. Obviously served with arepa. Tastier than it sounds (and looks) for sure.