What is a typical Chinese days menu?

Question

I need to find out what a typical days' menu is for Chinese people. Can you please include breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea dinner and dessert? Thanks heaps!

Answer 1

For breakfast, it is either milk tea, herbal tea, coffee plus a bun like hot dog bun or pineapple bun.

Lunch is many dishes of food plus rice. Sometimes it's leftovers from dinner.

Dinner is the most important meal of the day. Freshly cooked dishes like chicken, steamed fish, and leafy vegetables; spinach, bok choy. Soup is served after or before dinner. Soup takes almost a day to prepare and they are always served for dinner.  

There is not much for dessert. Dessert is a sweet soup or porridge like thing. An example would be red bean tong sui. You google it and see some pictures.

Answer 2

My family is northern Chinese and when I go to visit them my menu consists of fried rice using the leftover rice from the day before and drinking milk usually although sometimes I eat some pastries or bun of some sort.  Lunch is usually wonton soup or soup noodles or large vegetable/meat buns.  Dinner can vary greatly depending on the number of people eating but mostly several stir fry dishes usually more veggies (Chinese use meat as flavoring more than just eating it plain) and a special soup can serve as the centerpiece of the meal.  We would have steamed rice with dinner but being northerners we also love the plain steamed bun to go with the dishes.  

Chinese cruisine has less desserts although lighter/less sweet cakes that are delicious are often consumed as well as a wide variety of fruits.  I remember my grandfather as always wanting fresh seasonal fruit in the afternoon after his noon nap.  I also really enjoyed the large assortment of ice cream and popscicles everytime I visit China.