English people call what Portugueses, French, Italians, Spanish etc eat the continental breakfast. They only serve breakfast at X hours. It is different from what they serve for lunch and dinner.

I don't think this is exclusive to Western eating habits: certainly Chinese people customarily eat certain foods at breakfast - you tiao, for example. There is a tendency for restaurants to serve breakfast food later in the day: a café serving a fried English breakfast for lunch or tea would call it an All Day Breakfast, and in China it is now commonplace to eat dim sum at lunchtime.

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@Nanren888- 新西兰 What I meant was the way to eat western breakfast at another time, but anyway all the replies including yours were enough to satisfy my curiosity. Thank you! :D

Your question is a mixture of things. Some restaurants will advertise "all day breakfast" which sort of answers one of your questions. Some peole do want the breakfast menu later. . Why like this at all? Habit. Cultural, historic. To have other than cereal for breakfast is strange to me. To have fried foods at breakfast other than maybe bacon or eggs, doubly strange. Let alone those deep-fried things children buy on the street in China on the way to school. . I don't find the difference with meals any more surprising than the totally different menus themselves. I mean who would think of stinky or fermented tofu as food? Or, incredulously spicy food, for example? Just cultural. cultural conditioning. . More than that, I suspect if you ask you will commonly get the same answer. "This way is the only healthy way". So many societies have a strong belief that what they do is the only healthy approach, even if it is opposite to their neighbours. . Then there is the modern cafe society, some of which cannot start their day without a breakfast solely of coffe. . If you go abroad and want a traditional breakfast some other time? Same at any time: Go to a friendly authentic Korean restaurant. . stopped auto-wrapping, sorry