FYI, You may not have to travel to Sri Lanka to try one.

You can get them e.g. in London UK: https://www.hopperslondon.com/

I've tried their Kings X restaurant, and while their food is delicious, and the decor is also really nice, its not particularly authentic, and I felt its a bit overpriced (tbf its an extremely central location). I don't live in London so can't suggest a better alternative, but I'm sure there are much more authentic restaurants.

> the decor is also really nice, its not particularly authentic, and I felt its a bit overpriced

That describes all of the restaurants in the Kings Cross newly built area. They are all different cuisines, but they all fit.

sadly, they don't open for breakfast.

I wonder if this is why I've missed them? I've lived within a few hundred metres of their Soho place for the best part of the last decade.

These look great, squarely in my breakfast wheelhouse, definitely eggy, but with - well, I guess what I now know as a hint of darkness. Thanks for sharing.

I've been meaning to go to Sri Lanka..

Going to share my advice to people going to Sri Lanka (other than what food to try and where) is to not focus on beaches (which are mostly pretty average) and go to the mountains and ancient cities which are unique and amazing.

Hoppers are not only Sri Lankan - also found in parts of South India and I think in some places in SE Asia.

Same. When I was on a bit of black beach I looked on the internet and found quite a few boats had shed oil along there. Everything else was good though.

Thanks for this insight.

FWIW, for Thailand (where I have been), I'd have a similar recommendation.

Thailand has some great beaches, but as someone from great-beaches-land, I would recommend the mountains and ancient cities.

And is a decidedly superior breakfast.

Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make.

My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

What dimension would you add to make a tetrahedron?

I would add sugar.

Egg nog is listed on the triangle as away from flour, but it is extremely high in carbs. When I was a kid, I loved egg nog and a couple of years ago I decided to purchase some. I liked it so much I drank the whole half gallon in a day. That night I had horrible painful bloating and looked at the ingredients label to find "sugar", "cane sugar". "corn syrup", and "high fructose corn syrup".

It's not so much that it's high in carbs, it's extraordinarily high in fat. Its main ingredients are egg yolks and heavy cream along with the sugar. What you're describing is like eating an entire cheesecake or drinking a pitcher of melted premium ice cream. The bloating is from the enormous amount of fatty calories that are slow to digest. Not really about the sugar. (And of course it has sugar, it's essentially a dessert drink.)

My money is on the amount of lactose in all that dairy. There's a lot of lactose in a half gallon of nog.

Right? I felt bloated just thinking about drinking a half gallon of nog.

I can barely get through an 8 oz glass of that stuff. Wow.

Bacon

Bacon. Or tomatoes.

Something like a Dutch baby (German pancake) qualifies as dark breakfast (4 eggs 1/2c flour 1/2 c milk

I bet they would work with milk milk, though.

Is fruit not a 4th dimension in breakfast?

Giant string hoppers are far superior: https://www.hungrylankan.com/recipes/sri-lankan-string-hoppe...

They are delicious, similar to noodles but I eat them cold with a dry chutney and a great breakfast.

The Egglish Muffin.