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Cantonese cuisine, the longest of the Central Plains cuisine and Western food, and then absorbed the advantages of the local dishes in Guangdong, as the culture of Guangzhou, the integration of the ancient and modern, through the Chinese and Western, unique Guangzhou food culture, and won the "food in Guangzhou" reputation.

The following are some of the major characteristics of Guangzhou's eating habits - drinking morning tea, herbal tea, soup. These eating habits are closely related to the climate and humanities in Guangzhou, reflecting the chic and charm of Lingnan culture.

I. Drinking Morning Tea

Drinking Morning Tea, Guangzhou people love to drink tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet each other with the words "have you had your tea yet" (meaning "have you had your tea yet"), which shows our preference for drinking tea. Drinking tea is a custom in Guangzhou. There is a proverb that says, "A pot of tea in the morning is no need to look for a doctor". By drinking tea, Guangzhou people actually mean drinking tea in teahouses (customarily called tea houses). Tea drinking in Guangzhou is actually a way of socializing. Taking Tao Heung Restaurant as an example, the morning tea usually opens at 7:00 a.m., and the evening tea closes at 1:00-2:00 a.m. the next morning. Inside Tao Heung Restaurant, there are usually dozens of people sitting around the table, talking and sharing with each other. The old wide generally more interested in going to Karma teahouse in addition to Taoxiang, there are Tao Taoju, Guangzhou restaurant these a few.

Two, drinking herbal tea

Herbal tea, refers to the medicinal properties of cold and cool and can dissipate the internal heat of the herbal decoction as a beverage to drink, in order to eliminate the summer heat in the body, or winter dryness caused by sore throat and other ailments. Guangzhou is a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate, at the same time, Guangzhou people love to eat, will eat, sometimes eat more fried things, it is inevitable to get on fire, so drinking herbal tea has also become a perennial habit of Guangzhou people. The most famous Wanglaoji herbal tea has always been respected by Guangzhou people. It can be said that the Guangzhou herbal tea is a combination of the essence of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, the unity and harmony of man and nature, there is a "unity of heaven and man" meaning.

Three, soup

Guangzhou cuisine is the most famous than with a variety of medicinal herbs boiled "old-fire soup". Guangzhou's climate is hot and humid, and sweating is a physiological adaptation for locals. Drinking soup can replenish the water lost due to sweating, which is a good dietary habit. Soups with fire-clearing, detoxification and nourishing effects, such as peanut and pig's trotters soup, pig's belly soup, white fruit and apricot soup, etc., are made with common ingredients and suitable herbs, and boiled for a long time to become a daily essential delicacy for Cantonese people. The real "beautiful soup" can not be boiled for a long time, but also eat the dregs of the soup, in order to get more nutrients. Nowadays, Guangzhou people are slowly realizing this, and have begun to adjust the time of making soup.

Guangzhou's food has been known throughout the country and the world, in the annual food and cultural festivals many tastemakers flocked to drink a mouthful of soup, worthy of food in Guangzhou