Everyday life around the world.
What people eat, how they live at home, the rituals they keep. Ordinary days in other countries, told by peeka.
What do Iranians eat for breakfast?
An Iranian breakfast usually starts with fresh flatbread, white cheese and sweet black tea. Which bread goes with which topping, how the tea is sweetened, and the hot winter bowls: adasi, haleem and kaleh pacheh.
November 2, 2026
What do Nigerians eat for breakfast?
Many Nigerian breakfasts are akara, pap and bread: fried bean cakes, fermented corn or millet porridge, and a sweet loaf with "tea" that is often Milo. What each one is, how the north differs, and what Saturday brings.
November 2, 2026
What do Moroccans eat for breakfast?
Many Moroccans start the day with bread, harcha or msemen, with olive oil, butter, cheese or honey, and mint tea or milky coffee. Here is what each one is, where bissara, sfenj and amlou fit, and how Ramadan changes the table.
November 2, 2026
What does a typical Japanese kitchen look like?
A typical Japanese kitchen is small and often in one straight line: sink, counter, and a gas or induction cooktop with a fish-grill drawer. A rice cooker and an oven-microwave stand nearby; about 37% of households of two or more have a dishwasher.
November 2, 2026
Finnish sauna etiquette: what to expect as a guest
Shower first, sit on a seat towel, follow the house rule on swimsuits, and ask before you throw water on the stones. What a guest can expect in a Finnish sauna, from public saunas in Helsinki to an invitation at a summer cottage.
November 2, 2026
What is daily life like in Finland?
A Finnish weekday can mean an early lunch, often around 11, paid coffee breaks, a free lunch at school and a sauna at home or a booked turn in a shared one. Cities go quiet at Midsummer and much of the country is on holiday in July; in the far north, winter brings almost two months without sun.
November 2, 2026
What does a typical Korean apartment look like?
Most Korean homes are apartments in large complexes. The most common family flat is 84 m² with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, a sunken entrance for shoes, a heated ondol floor, often an enclosed veranda for laundry, and in many homes a bathroom that is all shower.
November 2, 2026
What does a typical Japanese house look like?
Just over half of Japanese homes are detached houses; the rest are mostly flats. Inside: a genkan for shoes, an open living-dining-kitchen, rooms measured in tatami mats, a bath kept apart from the toilet, and often no central heating.
November 2, 2026
What do Vietnamese eat for breakfast?
In Vietnamese cities breakfast is often eaten out, early, from a street stall: phở, bánh mì, sticky rice, bánh cuốn, bún bò Huế or cơm tấm. Here is what each one is, how Hanoi and Saigon differ, and where phin coffee fits.
November 2, 2026
What do Filipinos eat for breakfast?
In the Philippines breakfast usually means rice, boiled or fried, with fish or egg and coffee. Silog plates, pandesal from the morning bakery, champorado with dried fish, lugaw, taho from street vendors, and what Cebu and Mindanao eat.
November 1, 2026
Why peeka exists
In 2016 I ran a site where people answered questions with photos, then shut it down. Ten years later, peeka is the one I never stopped thinking about.
October 31, 2026
What do Mexicans eat for breakfast?
Many Mexican families start with coffee or atole and bread, and eat a substantial meal later, mid-morning, as almuerzo: eggs, beans, salsa and tortillas. It covers chilaquiles, regional eggs, molletes, pan dulce, street tamales and how the weekend changes it.
October 31, 2026