In China, we generally have three meals a day.
Breakfast
Most Chinese get up pretty early in the morning
Breakfast: a light and a hurried meal.
Food
Traditional food for breakfast:
Solid food: some kind of flour-and-water cake or bun, either steamed, deep-fried, or oven-baked.
Twisted cruller Chinese style; pancake; steamed bun; baozi (meat stuffing); steamed vermicelli roll and so on.
Liquid food: Soybean milk; noodles with soup; gruel; porridge and so on.
P.S. The gruel is just grain and water and is usually eaten with a little pickle or salted vegetable or is cooked with a little or fish in it (in the south).
Lunch & Supper
About lunch and supper, we usually eat the same kind of food for both differences between South China &North China
About staple food:
Cooked rice in South China
Boiled sorghum grain; steamed buns made of wheat or corn flour; boiled noodles made of wheat; thick pancakes made of wheat or corn flour in North China. (the savory jiaozi is a holiday or Sunday treat.)
Supplementary Dishes
Besides the staple food, there are always some supplementary dishes, which are seasoned and savory.
They are taken together with the tasteless staple food to give taste to the latter, and kind of help to “send” the latter “down”. (3—5 dishes at every meal)
The dishes are all different. They usually consist of some meat, fish or egg and vegetables, including different kinds of soybean products. One of the dishes is often a soup.