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From spicy sausages to smoky skewers, crisp spring rolls to crunchy insects, Vientiane's nighttime street food scene throbs with temptations for every palate.

Wyndham Grand Manama offers a spectacular backdrop for breakfast, showcasing the skyline of Bahrain's increasingly modern capital city.

Local cheeses, grains, nuts and dates make for a satisfactory breakfast at Saudi Arabia's Radisson Blu Jeddah Corniche.

Breakfast at Sheraton Kuwait takes guests on a culinary tour through the Gulf region, from moutabel eggplant dip to warak enab stuffed grape leaves, hummus to the ubiquitous morning staple of ful medames stewed fava beans, plus steaming-hot lentil soup and om ali bread pudding.

It's worth waking early for breakfast at Qatar's Al Najada Doha Hotel, where the spread might comprise bulgur wheat topped with chicken, meaty shawarma, tabbouleh parsley salad studded with pomegranates, sumac-spiked croissants, kanafeh pastry drizzled with Nutella, plus plenty of cheeses.

For a spot of plane-watching with a few of plates of sushi, head to Fuji before flying out of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Tucked in the older neighbourhoods of Manama, Bahrain's capital city, Bu Khalaf is a calm, comforting stop for light-bodied Arabic coffee.

With a history dating back seven decades, Haji's street cafe is a time-honoured stop for a meal of Arabian lamb and fish in Manama, Bahrain's capital city.

For a fresh snack on the go in Manama, Bahrain's capital city, grab a serving of khubz tannour - hot-from-the-clay-oven flatbread, buttered up for melting goodness.

Shakshouka is the ideal breakfast before exploring Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah - spiced, skillet-scrambled eggs, moistly fluffy.

Madfoon is one of the Arabian peninsula's most time-honoured recipes, a relic of times when Bedouins cooked their food in buried underground pits. Fall-off-the-bone lamb with fluffy, aromatic rice - a should-try in modern Saudi Arabia.

Hipster cafes have overrun the world, including in Kuwait, where Caffeine serves locally inflected open sandwiches topped with labna yogurt cheese, za'atar spices and espresso balsamic to complement coffee relying on beans from across the globe.

Samfu is a striking space, but its appeal is more than skin-deep: Its Nyonya specialities include pongteh that comprises both pork and chicken instead of forcing customers to choose only one, plus a stirringly spicy babi cili garam that showcases beautifully tender pork with plenty of heat. The p...

Scarcely a year old, HomeTaste has cultivated a reliable reputation for Nyonya fare in the city where this cooking is most cherished. The Nyonya laksa is worthwhile, lightly aromatic, while the chicken includes interesting recipes like wings glazed in gula Melaka, as well as soothing staples like...

Tucked in Qatar's oldest souk (marketplace), Damasca One serves regional specialities like fatteh (toasted flatbread) tossed with yogurt, ghee and pomegranates, and soulful soups of freekeh (durum wheat cereal).