Slide it all onto a plate and crown the lot with a fried egg, as bright and cheerful as a buttercup.

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In the credit sequence, a fried egg took on an unnerving affinity to a sliced eye, and shoelaces resembled rope tugged tight.

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Fried egg adds another layer of richness to this already un-turn-downable plate.

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Elsewhere, Ms. Bloomfield provides hearty breakfast recipes, our choice being toasts topped with squash, pancetta and fried egg, dusted with chili, cumin and marjoram.

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Plus, there's always Saturday night company, when you can prep the crazy sandwich recipe that Thomas Keller cooked up for Adam Sandler's chef character in the movie "Spanglish" the BLT with melted cheese and a fried egg, also known as the greatest sandwich in the history of cinema.

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He opened his eyes, fried-egg white in feigned disbelief.

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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.

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Fortunately four to five meals per day of char kwey tiaw (fried noodles in soy sauce with egg and various additions), asam laksa (Penang's famous, indescribably good curry noodle soup), rojak (fruit and veggie salad in a sweet dark shrimp paste) and much, much more, goes down a lot easier than heavier Western foods.

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Wednesday's lunch offerings for the Beijing delegation featured the relatively mundane egg drop soup, boiled corn, stir-fried bokchoy and sticky rice with pork.

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