Guangzhou has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate. At the same time, Guangzhou people love to eat, sometimes eating too much fried things will inevitably get angry, so drinking herbal tea has become a perennial habit of Guangzhou people.

The so-called herbal tea refers to the Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can eliminate internal heat. After boiling, it is used as a drink to eliminate the sore throat caused by summer heat or winter dryness in the human body. Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Dashenggong herbal tea, Shi Qi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle flower tea, bitter gourd herbal tea and even turtle paste soup, sashimi and cabbage soup, carrots and bamboo cane water. It has become a traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

Wang Lao Ji's most famous herbal tea has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After 1980s, various kinds of herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being. Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea have become fashionable drinks for many families in summer.

morning tea

People in Guangzhou love to drink tea, especially morning tea. Morning meetings are often dominated by "drinking T_ comb"? As a greeting, you can see your preference for tea. Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people. There is a folk proverb that "a pot of tea in the morning does not need a doctor".

When people in Guangzhou say drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (formerly called teahouse). Not only drink tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); Drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea; Not only can you fill your stomach, but you can also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a social way.

This is also the important and fundamental reason why the teahouse industry in Guangzhou has been enduring for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and teahouses of that year.

People who drink tea in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually "one cup" (ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks), and most of these people are retired people; The other is drinking "tea worship", that is, drinking tea on rest days is not limited to "one cup or two", but calmly tasting various snacks and "sighing tea".

There are three tea markets in Guangzhou every day: morning, noon and evening, among which the morning tea market is the most prosperous, and it is often crowded from early morning to eleven noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and evening tea doesn't close until 1-2 am the next morning.

Drink "Kung Fu Tea"

People in Guangzhou like to drink "Kung Fu Tea" in their spare time. Drinking "Kung Fu Tea" used to be popular in Chaoshan area, but now it is also popular in Guangzhou. "Kung Fu tea" is very particular about tea set, tea, water quality, tea making, tea pouring and drinking. Kung fu teapot is very small, only the size of a fist, with thin-walled porcelain, and the tea in the pot is faintly visible. This cup is only half as big as table tennis. Tea is oolong tea. Fill the pot with tea and press it hard with your fingers. It is said that the more pressed, the stronger and more mellow the tea is. The water is preferably precipitated water or mineral water. When making tea, you should immediately pour the freshly boiled water into the pot and pour it out once or twice at the beginning. When pouring tea, you should keep pouring it back and forth to avoid the situation of being strong before and weak after. Chatting while drinking tea is called "Kung Fu".

midnight snack

Midnight snack is a life custom of Guangzhou people, usually after 10 in the evening, hence the name "midnight snack" or "midnight snack". The way of midnight snack varies from person to person: some people cook by themselves at night; Some people eat alone or invite friends in street food stalls or night markets in teahouse restaurants, so many "night market food streets" and "night market" teahouses of various teahouse hotels have gradually formed in the city. The night market in the teahouse often has a music teahouse to attract diners.

Eat dessert water

People in Guangzhou like to drink sugar water all year round. It is considered that syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and benefiting the body.

There are many varieties of sugar water: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste and plum bean paste; There are sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste and phoenix milk paste; Medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup and Qingbuliang syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potato syrup, Ma Rong soup pills, egg milk, ginger milk, candied sago, soybean milk, tofu flower and so on.

After the sugar water is boiled, it is a hot drink; What you drink after freezing is a cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink shop that supplies ice cream, soda, beer, etc.). The most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion Ice Room on Beijing Road.

reunion dinner

"Food is the most important thing for the people", and eating is an important part of festivals in China, especially in Guangzhou, which is famous for "eating". People pay more attention to eating well and eating skillfully. The reunion dinner is more important.

A reunion dinner is full of people's yearning for family warmth, nostalgia for family ties and concern for parents and children.

In Guangzhou, it has gradually become a fashion to have reunion dinner and go to restaurants. The main reasons are as follows:

1. With the development of economy, the catering industry in Guangzhou has also developed rapidly. In recent years, Guangzhou's flavor restaurants have mushroomed in the streets. Some give full play to the flavor characteristics of local dishes; Some create their own brands and open chain stores; Some tap the characteristics of vegetables from a long cultural history; Others are strongly exotic. The dishes in the restaurant are constantly innovating; At the same time, due to the competition between catering industries, the service level of restaurants has also been continuously improved.

Second, people's living standards have improved, and the level of food and beverage consumption has also improved. I hope to taste all kinds of food, and the types of food in the restaurant just meet people's multi-level and multi-flavor needs;

Third, with the accelerated pace of life, people's consumption concept has gradually changed. Most women are very professional. Everyone wants to rest and relax during the Spring Festival. So they are busy in the kitchen, so it is better to spend more time writing about shopping with their families and enjoying their holidays. So the wind of "laziness" gradually prevailed.

This atmosphere naturally broke the business. Catering units try their best to meet the people's needs of enjoying and opening New Year's Eve in restaurants and restaurants. Therefore, it is not surprising that the hotels and restaurants on New Year's Eve and the second day of junior high school are full, and the time for booking banquets is getting earlier every year. Some guests can't wait to book next year's meals even after the dinner on New Year's Eve this year.

On New Year's Eve, people in Guangzhou pay special attention to "good intentions", so all the dishes on New Year's Eve have a good name, such as fish (symbolizing "more than a year"), oyster lion (pronounced "good thing" and "good market"), Nostoc flagelliforme, lettuce (pronounced "getting rich" and "making money"), chicken feet and mushrooms.