Drinking herbal tea

Guangzhou has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate. At the same time, Guangzhou people love to eat, and sometimes they will get angry if they eat too many fried things, so drinking herbal tea has become a habit of Guangzhou people all the year round.

the so-called herbal tea refers to the Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can dispel internal heat, which is decocted as a drink to eliminate the summer heat in the human body or the sore throat caused by dryness in winter. Guangzhou's herbal tea has a long history, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Dashenggong herbal tea, Shiqi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, jinyinju five-flower tea, bitter gourd dried herbal tea, etc. Even turtle ling cream soup, raw fish and cabbage soup, carrot and bamboo cane water, etc., have become the traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

The most famous herbal tea, Wang Laoji, has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After the 1981s, various herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being, such as Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea, which have become a fashionable drink in many families in summer.

drink morning tea

Guangzhou people like to drink tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet each other with "Have you had tea" (meaning "Have you had tea"), which shows our 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 talk about drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (used to be called a 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 fill your stomach, but also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a way of social communication.

this is also an important and fundamental reason why the tea house industry in Guangzhou has been prosperous for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and tea houses in those days.

Tea drinkers 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), most of whom are retired people; The other is to drink "worship tea", that is, to drink tea on the rest day, not limited to "one cup or two", but to taste a variety of snacks and "sigh tea" calmly.

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 full from early morning till eleven o'clock noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, you can listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. The morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and the evening tea will not close until 1-2 am the next day.

Drink "Kung Fu Tea"

People in Guangzhou enjoy drinking "Kung Fu Tea" in their leisure time. Drinking "Kung Fu Tea" was popular in Chaoshan area, but now it has become popular in Guangzhou. "Kung Fu Tea" is very particular about tea sets, tea leaves, water quality, tea making, tea pouring and drinking. Kung fu teapot is very small, only as big as a fist, thin-walled porcelain, and the tea in the pot can be seen vaguely. The cup is only half the size of a ping-pong ball. Tea is oolong tea. Fill the pot with tea and press it firmly with your fingers. It is said that the more pressed, the stronger the fragrance of tea, and the more mellow it is. The water is preferably precipitated 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, keep pouring it back and forth, so as to avoid the situation of strong before and weak after. When drinking tea, chatting while sipping tea is called "Kung Fu".

midnight snack

Midnight snack is a life custom of Guangzhou people, usually after 11 pm, hence the name "midnight snack" or "midnight snack". The way of midnight snack varies from person to person: some people cook their own food at night; Some alone or invite friends to eat in the night market of street food stalls or teahouse restaurants, so many "night food streets" and "night market" teahouses in various teahouse hotels have gradually formed in the city. The night market in a teahouse often has a music teahouse to attract diners.

eat sugar water

Guangzhou people like to drink sugar water all the year round. It is believed that the syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away 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, marong 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 is drunk after freezing is cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink store that supplies ice cream, soda, beer, etc., and the most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion ice room on Beijing Road).

Family reunion dinner

"Food is the most important thing for the people", and eating is an important part of China people's holidays, especially Guangzhou people, who are famous for eating, pay more attention to eating well and eating skillfully. The reunion dinner is even more important.

A family reunion dinner is full of people's warm yearning for family, nostalgia for family, and concern for parents and children. It has gradually become fashionable to have a family reunion dinner in Guangzhou. The main reasons are as follows:

First, with the development of economy, the catering industry in Guangzhou has also developed rapidly. In recent years, local flavor restaurants in Guangzhou have mushroomed in the streets. Some of them play the flavor characteristics of local dishes; Some have created their own brands and opened chain stores; Some dig the characteristics of vegetables from a long cultural history; Others show a strong exotic flavor. 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 catering consumption has also improved, hoping to taste foods with various flavors, and the variety of food in restaurants just meets people's needs of multiple levels and tastes;

Third, people's consumption concept has gradually changed with the accelerated pace of life. Most women are professional, and everyone wants to have a rest and relax during the Chinese New Year. Therefore, they are busy in the kitchen, so it is better to take more time to write about shopping with their families and enjoy the holiday. So the wind of "laziness" gradually became popular.

such an atmosphere naturally makes businesses unhappy. Catering units have tried their best to meet the people's needs of enjoying the New Year's Eve dinner and opening the New Year's dinner in restaurants and restaurants. Therefore, it is not surprising that hotels and restaurants are full of reservations on New Year's Eve and the second day of the first year, 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.

People in Guangzhou pay special attention to "good intentions" at the New Year's Eve reunion dinner, 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"), seaweed, lettuce (pronounced "getting rich" and "making money") and chicken feet grabbing money (.