When I started booking foreigners into the Japanese inns on our island, the minshuku owners all had the same fear: "We don't know how to make a Western breakfast!"
"No problem," I said, "just make the Japanese breakfast as you normally do. Foreigners don't expect you to change just for them. When in Rome . . . right?"
Wrong. As our little island heads down the rocky path to internationalization, breakfast has been a common bump along the way.