Perhaps you mean a bagel. A doughnut shaped bread roll which is first boiled or steamed and then baked off in the oven.

The tamales - a steamed corn-based dish - is popular in the United States and Mexico, but can be found all over Latin America. Tamales are made of corn bread, which is wrapped in a dough and steamed.

They eat usually rice and wheat. Millet, corn, buckwheat, potato, sweet potato and many kinds of legumes are also common. Apart from rice, wheaten food like steamed bread, noodles, deep-fried twisted dough sticks, steamed stuffed buns, as well as various gruels, cakes and snacks

Rye 'n' Injun bread is a course brown bread made with rye and cornmeal. An early precurser to Boston Brown Bread where rye and cornmeal were mixed to make a substitute for wheat flour. Locally available sweetners were often added to sweeten and help bind the bread. It was then steamed instead of baked in the tradition of an English pudding.

The Chinese usually eat three meals a day, plus snacks. Steamed bread, dumplings or noodles are typical breakfast items.