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Fried eggs ({{lang|de|Spiegeleier}}; singular {{lang|de|Spiegelei}}) are a crucial part of such traditional German dishes as {{lang|de|Strammer Max}} (the egg is fried on one side with an unbroken yolk, and served "sunny side up" atop an open ham sandwich) or {{lang|de|Hamburger Schnitzel}} / {{lang|de|Holsteiner Schnitzel}} / Fernfahrerschnitzel ("trucker's schnitzel") – a similarly prepared fried egg served on a {{lang|de|Wiener Schnitzel}}.

Fried eggs over (or side-by-side with) pan-fried potatoes is another common dish, sometimes served with spinach as a third component of the meal. Some German cooks break the yolk and distribute it across the surface of the white during the frying.

All of the above are typically lunch, rather than breakfast, dishes, although eggs themselves (like boiled or scrambled eggs) are a common part of a German breakfast.

In Cambodia, a fried egg is often served on top of a common dish called beef lok lak. It is made of a ring of spinach, onion finely shaven, and tomato with either a portion of venison or beef with gravy, topped with a fried egg, either duck or chicken egg.

In Vietnam, a fried egg (Trứng ốp la) is served over white rice, topped with a dab of oyster or hoisin sauce; this is also popular in east Asia. Fried eggs are also sometimes used in a bánh mì.

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In Indonesia, fried eggs are served either as telur ceplok or telur mata sapi (Indonesian for "bull's eye egg") which refer to sunny side up eggs, as telur dadar (omelette) or as telur orak-arik (scrambled eggs). The fried eggs are either setengah matang which is half cooked with still runny yolk or matang which is well done. When speaking English, an Indonesian waiter may ask if you want the egg fried "one side" or "two sides". Fried eggs, especially bull's eye egg, are a popular topping for Indonesian fried rice (nasi goreng){{Cite web |date=22 December 2016 |title=How to make Nasi Goreng: Nasi Goreng with fried eggs recipe |url=https://www.australianeggs.org.au/recipes-and-cooking/nasi-goreng-with-fried-eggs/ |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=Australian Eggs |language=en-AU}} and fried noodle (mie goreng), either freshly prepared noodle or cooked from instant noodle Indomie Mi goreng.{{Cite web |date=20 August 2019 |title=Mi Goreng |url=https://www.australianeggs.org.au/recipes-and-cooking/mi-goreng/ |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=Australian Eggs |language=en-AU}}

A simple dish of fried sunny side up egg served on top of steamed rice drizzled with kecap manis sweet soy sauce, is a favourite dish among Indonesian children.{{Cite web |title=Hidangan Cepat dan Lezat dengan Telur Ceplok Masak Kecap - Semua Halaman - Nakita |url=https://nakita.grid.id/read/0224091/hidangan-cepat-dan-lezat-dengan-telur-ceplok-masak-kecap |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=nakita.grid.id |language=id}} Other than served with rice, fried eggs might be served with bread as a sandwich for breakfast. Seasoning includes salt and pepper, sweet soy sauce, and sometimes hot and spicy sambal chili paste.

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Fried eggs can be served on toast, or in a sandwich, with bacon, sausages, and a variety of condiments. Eggs are often part of the full breakfast commonly eaten in Britain and Ireland. Fried eggs are often served with ham or gammon steak as a popular pub meal. The egg is cooked on high heat and hot fat, oil, or water may be splashed onto the top of the egg to baste it and cook the white. They are usually cooked without turning over.

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In Portugal and Brazil, a runny egg placed over a steak with a side dish of rice and fried potatoes (and the addition of black beans in Brazil) is called a {{lang|pt-BR|bife a cavalo}}, literally "horse-riding steak".

A similar dish, with the name {{lang|es|bife a caballo}} in Spanish, is also common in Argentina, Ecuador, and Uruguay (called churrasco); fried potatoes and salad replace the beans and rice.

In Colombia’s {{lang|es|bandeja paisa}} the egg is accompanied with avocado and chorizo.

In Chile and Peru, a fried egg is included in {{lang|es|Lomo a lo Pobre}}, {{lang|es|Chorrillana}}, {{lang|es|Paila de huevo}}, and several other dishes.

In Ecuador, llapingachos include a sunny-side up egg served over pan-seared cheesy mashed potatoes and fried sausage.

In northern Mexico, {{lang|es|huevos montados}} (riding eggs) are served with refried beans and fried potatoes (or french fries). Another common method of serving eggs in Mexico is {{lang|es|huevos a la mexicana}}, which blends fried eggs with diced tomato, onion, and green chili pepper; the amount of pepper added is often to order.

There are several other egg dishes in Mexico which combine different ingredients: Huevos motuleños (in Yucatán), {{lang|es|aporreados}} (mixed with refried beans), and {{lang|es|huevos rancheros}} (sunny side up eggs served over a corn tortilla, covered with spicy salsa). Also, in some parts of Mexico, fried eggs are served with fresh tomato, onions, and cilantro salsa. Red chili is optional, as is a blended sauce.

In Spain fried eggs (huevos fritos) are a common dish. They are eaten alone, with meat, or with sausages. In this country, a fried egg served with boiled rice covered in tomato sauce is called arroz a la cubana in Spanish and the same dish is served in parts of Latin America, Italy (so-called occhio di bue, transl: ox's eye), the Philippines, and Portugal as well.

Poet Nâzım Hikmet says, in an interview, that he stayed with a Spanish friend for a month and ate fried eggs almost every day.{{Cite book |last=Vera Tulyakova Hikmet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GjiAAAAMAAJ |title=Nâzımʾla söyleşi |publisher=Cem Yayınevi |year=1989 |isbn=9789754060737}}

Just as in Indonesia, nasi goreng, one of the popular fried rice dish in Malaysia and Singapore is often served with a fried egg.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

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In the Netherlands, a fried egg ({{lang|nl|spiegelei}}) is normally served on top of a slice of bread (white or whole wheat), often with fried bacon, for breakfast or lunch.{{Cite book |last=van Limburg Stirum, C. Countess |title=The Art of Dutch Cooking |date=1962 |publisher=Andre Deutsch Limited |location=London |page=45}}

An {{lang|nl|uitsmijter}} is a dish consisting of two or three fried eggs, sunny side up. One version is fried together with ham and cheese ({{lang|nl|uitsmijter ham en kaas}}), or bacon and cheese ({{lang|nl|uitsmijter spek en kaas}}). Another version is placed on buttered bread over a generous slice of cold meat, e.g., cooked ham or beef, similar to the German Strammer Max or Strammer Otto, and usually garnished with a dill pickle. It is a common lunch dish served in many cafes, canteens, and lunch rooms in the Netherlands. {{lang|nl|Uitsmijter}}, which literally means "out-thrower", is a Dutch word for a bouncer.{{Cite web |date=3 April 2011 |title=Uitsmijter |url=http://www.thedutchtable.com/2011/04/uitsmijter-ham-cheese-and-egg-sandwich.html |access-date=2 September 2012 |publisher=The Dutch Table}}

What is known as "scrambled eggs" in the US and UK is called "fried eggs" in Nigeria, while what is known as "fried eggs" in the US and UK would be known as "half-fried eggs" in Nigeria. The mai shai stalls cook scrambled eggs to the point of being heavily crisp.{{Cite web |last=Kperogi, Farooq |date=26 January 2014 |title=Q and A on the grammar of food, usage, and Nigerian English |url=http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/politics-of-grammar/15779-qa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223030623/http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/politics-of-grammar/15779-qa |archive-date=23 February 2017 |access-date=23 February 2017 |website=Daily Trust}}

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In the Philippines, fried eggs are often cooked like a sunny-side egg but the yolk is half cooked - referred to as malasado (from the Spanish, meaning undercooked) - by sprinkling it with salt and oil while being fried, giving it a distinctive pink-colored membrane. Garlic rice (sinangag) with an egg (itlog) is a common combination known as silog, usually served with a choice of breakfast meat

such as beef tapa to make it tapsilog, longaniza (longsilog), fried milkfish, dried fish, tocino (caramelised pork), Spam, or corned beef, etc. In addition, fried eggs are eaten in a dish called Arroz a la cubana, which is seasoned ground beef with raisins, cubed potatoes, tomato sauce, and olives, along with white rice and fried ripe plantains. Fried eggs are also a main ingredient in the noodle dish Pancit Batil Patong, where a fried egg is topped over stir-fried noodles.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

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In Thai cuisine, when the words {{lang|th-Latn|khai dao}} (lit. "star egg") are placed after the name of a dish, it means that one wants that dish accompanied by a fried egg. The very popular {{lang|th-Latn|kaphrao mu rat khao khai dao}} for instance, translates to "basil fried pork on top of rice with a fried egg". Sometimes this is referred to as a "top egg".{{Cite web |date=29 September 2011 |title=Kra Pao Moo (stir fry pork with basil) for lunch |url=http://athomeinthailand.com/eating-out/kra-pao-moo-stir-fry-pork-with-basil-for-lunch/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128031041/http://athomeinthailand.com/eating-out/kra-pao-moo-stir-fry-pork-with-basil-for-lunch/ |archive-date=28 January 2012 |access-date=2 September 2012 |publisher=Athomeinthailand.com}} Fried rice is also popularly accompanied with a fried egg, such as with khao phat Amerikan and khao phat (standard Thai-style fried rice).{{Cite web |date=16 March 2011 |title=Khao phat Amerikan |url=http://www.austinbushphotography.com/blog/khao-phat-amerikan.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615210726/http://www.austinbushphotography.com/blog/khao-phat-amerikan.html |archive-date=15 June 2013 |access-date=2 September 2012 |publisher=Austin Bush Photography}}{{Cite web |last=Kodi |title=A "Farangs" trek through a Culture of Food and the Unknown- Thailand |url=http://kodikassell.blogspot.nl/ |access-date=2 September 2012 |publisher=Kodikassell.blogspot.nl}} Another popular way of eating fried eggs in Thailand is to use it as the main ingredient of the Thai salad called yam khai dao.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2009 |title=Thai Fried Egg Salad – Yam Khai Dao (ยำไข่ดาว) |url=http://www.shesimmers.com/2009/12/thai-spicy-fried-egg-salad.html |access-date=2 September 2012 |publisher=SheSimmers}}

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North Americans use different terms to describe the degree and method to which fried eggs are cooked, including:

; Over easy or over light

: Cooked on both sides; the yolk is runny and the egg white is fully cooked.

; Over medium

: Cooked on both sides; the yolk is cooked through but soft and near liquid at the center. The egg white is thoroughly cooked.

; Over hard or over well

: Cooked on both sides all the way through, with the yolk broken (immediately after the egg is cracked).

; Sunny-side up

: Cooked on one side only, until the egg white is set, but the yolk remains liquid. Gently splashing the hot cooking oil or fat over the sunny side uncooked white may be done to thoroughly cook the white. Covering the frying pan with a lid during cooking (optionally adding a cover and half-teaspoon of water just before finishing) allows for a less "runny" egg, and is an alternative method to flipping for cooking an egg over easy (this is occasionally called sunny side down or basted). Sunny-side up eggs are also commonly referred to as "dippy eggs" or "dip eggs" by Pennsylvania Dutch people living in central Pennsylvania, in parts of Ohio, and in Pittsburgh mainly due to the practice of dipping toast into the yolk while eating. This term is also occasionally used in Canada. They are also sometimes called moon eggs by those residing in eastern Maryland.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

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The name "toad in the hole" is sometimes used for this dish, particularly in the U.S., though that name more commonly refers to sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter.{{Cite web |date=29 September 2011 |title=The Genius Of Toad In A Hole, Egg In A Basket, Or Whatever You Want To Call It |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toad-in-a-hole-egg-in-a-basket-worthy_n_6994866 |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=HuffPost}} This dish is usually made by cutting a circle or other shape out of a slice of bread, often using a drinking glass or biscuit cutter. The bread is fried until brown on one side and then flipped, and an egg is broken into the center and seasoned, usually with salt and pepper, and sometimes herbs. The pan is then covered, and the egg is cooked until the white is just set. The cutout center of the bread is often fried as well and served alongside or on top of the finished egg.{{Cite web |last=Perry |first=Dawn |date=2015-02-17 |title=How to Make an Egg in a Basket a.k.a. Toad in a Hole a.k.a. Hen in a Nest |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/how-to/slideshow/egg-in-a-basket |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=Bon Appétit |language=en-US}}

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