@Aqua I would guess they have many different types of rice in China. You can make a paella dish, even if you don’t use saffron. Basically rice with sausage, chicken, seafood, I add peas and roasted red peppers. You can put whatever you want though.
You can roast peppers on toast in the toaster oven, peal them and use them in salads, rice, tortillas (if they have tortillas) and sandwiches.
I also broil asparagus in my toaster oven. I just salt them and put them in, but you can also add olive oil.
You can make potatoes a bunch of different ways. Boil them, then slice and brown them in a skillet with onions and salt. You can add bacon if you want. Potatoes can be roasted/broiled, baked, boiled.
If you like sunny side up eggs, a common dish in Latin America is rice witha sunny side up egg. Very inexpensive. You just have to trust there is no samonella risk if you have a runny yolk.
All sorts of omelets and similar you can make without cheese, or if you want a little cheese you can use stronger fresh cheeses like parmesian, because you can use much much less cheese and it is just as satisfying. Another breakfast option is french toast. If it is hard to find maple syrup, french toast with regular sugar is good. You can make cinammon sugar, but I like plain sugar better.
In my opinion no dairy, or very little dairy is a good thing. Americans get teased by people from other countries that we put cheese on everything, so it’s a little funny (giggle funny) that you are American and fit the stereotype. I associate big milk drinkers with the midwest. I was shocked when I went to school in Michigan that teens and adults chose all on their own to drink milk with dinner. I had never seen that before.
Living in China sounds exciting! I hope you have a good time while there.