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You Can Get A McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish For Breakfast In These 3 Countries
We’ve all been there, mid-morning at a McDonald’s at 10:31 a.m., wondering if they’re still serving breakfast or if they’ve already moved onto the lunch menu. That’s because the cut-off time for the breakfast menu varies by location, and getting any McDonald’s breakfast item isn’t necessarily a sure thing, especially if you’re at a location you’re not familiar with. However, if you’re craving a Filet-O-Fish in the morning — and you’re in Asia — have no trepidations about availability because you can get the iconic, tartar sauce-smothered fish and cheese sandwich all day.
Traveling in Japan? Have a Filet-O-Fish as a midnight snack and/or right after you wake up for breakfast. In Hong Kong, the Filet-O-Fish is such a breakfast staple, it’s included on the “Morning Value Pick” menu along with a hashbrown and coffee. And in Singapore, the Filet-O-Fish is such a protein-rich way to start the day, they even have the Double Filet-O-Fish on the breakfast menu.
Breakfast looks fishy
You might find it odd that McDonald’s menus offer fish for breakfast in Asia, but it’s not such a far-fetched idea when you consider that lox is one of the standard topping options for a bagel in the United States. In fact, wherever you are, there always seems to be a way to have seafood for breakfast. In parts of Europe, herring is considered part of a complete breakfast. A quintessential Japanese breakfast often includes grilled salmon or mackerel. All across Asia, fish is a common protein, so it would not be unheard of to consume it any time of day — even during a morning at McDonald’s.
One particular advantage to the Filet-O-Fish being on the breakfast menu is that it has a synchronous availability with McDonald’s renowned hash browns, or “hash potato” as it’s called in Japan. This makes it easy to combine the two for the ultimate Filet-O-Fish hack. Back home, you’re still going to have to wait in that breakfast-to-lunch limbo to accomplish this, knowing that if you were in parts of Asia, you wouldn’t have to.
