At 6.30am Yuan Qi was out of his dorm bed, and he was in the canteen for breakfast by 6.50.
Refreshingly, the dining room feels like a real restaurant, not a mop-clean canteen or hotel breakfast room.
Kevin EG Perry Packing me off to the first term of my degree, my parents bought me a meal card, which I was meant to show at the uni canteen in exchange for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
A trio of blond Kosovar children, some of the center's youngest residents, have breakfast as canteen staff and some older residents look on.
I would begin with breakfast at Rochelle Canteen on Arnold Circus in Shoreditch (arnoldandhenderson.com).
Restaurants such as Caravan and Canteen in London are putting breakfast at the centre of what they do and serving it for as long as they can.
At breakfast in the canteen – itself designed to resemble a ship's mess hall – the boys tuck into a hearty portion of belyash, the traditional greasy Russian meat pie, bulked out with potato and cabbage, still served by the kitchen here.
After breakfast in the canteen where the Bauhaus students used to eat for free (you sit on Breuer stools, of course), I set out to explore the rest of Dessau, which is easily navigable by foot or on bicycles that can be rented from the railway station.
The theory behind it is very simple and it goes like this: 3 Nurofen 1 vitamin C tablet 1 Alka Seltzer 1 can Coca-Cola (not diet) 1 greasy breakfast from office canteen This cure is magical because it works on so many levels.
There's nothing worse than the sea of faces that look up at you when you haven't got a lesson ready, so I'm not surprised by my consistently high heart rate, which dips briefly when I stop for breakfast at the canteen.
