With the change of Guangdong people's working life style, most people drink morning tea for the elderly, while young people mainly drink morning tea (usually after 8-9- 10), which is equivalent to breakfast and lunch.
Cantonese people say,' Have you had tea?' Mostly refers to drinking morning tea. For us Cantonese, the most important thing to drink morning tea is of course to eat it. I used to say' one cup and two tablets' when I was drinking tea, but now I have broken this rule. If some friends' set the stage' or the whole family go to have tea, the so-called two things can't solve the problem. At this time, take whatever you like. Chicken feet, ribs, shrimp dumplings, steamed dumplings, barbecued pork buns and various Cantonese dim sum. Tea drinkers are also, depending on their personal preferences, Tieguanyin, Pu 'er and scented tea are all available.
In fact, what do Cantonese people drink for morning tea? What you drink is a diet, a heritage and a culture.
Guangdong morning tea refers to Guangdong's unique slow catering culture. Cantonese people eat morning tea, which can be used for breakfast, communication and gathering, and the tea in the middle can be refilled continuously.
Drinking tea in the morning is a tradition. Whether family or friends get together, they always like to go to the teahouse, make a pot of tea and serve two snacks.
Most Cantonese people drink tea three times a day, in the morning, in the middle and in the evening, but morning tea is the most exquisite and the atmosphere of drinking morning tea is also the most prosperous. Because drinking morning tea is a supplement to drinking tea, it is called drinking morning tea locally.
Guangdong morning teas are mostly Kung Fu teas, such as Tieguanyin, ginseng oolong tea and Pu 'er. Generally speaking, middle-aged and elderly people like to drink Pu 'er tea produced in Yunnan, which can warm and lubricate the stomach. Most young people like to drink oolong tea from Fujian, which can refresh themselves.
When people in Guangzhou say that they invite you to drink/drink tea, they don't simply say tea, but a combination of tea and snacks. The most basic configuration is "one method and two pieces". "A cup" refers to a cup, also called "covering a bowl", that is, making tea with a covered bowl; "Two things" is a guide.
Now when we drink tea, we will eat three or more snacks, but in the past, only rich people could eat like this. People at the bottom, such as porters and dockers in canal commercial ports, can only eat one or two glasses. At that time, a cup of two pieces meant a cup of inferior tea and two rough snacks, which were equivalent to fast food now, and were used to fill the stomachs of the bottom people. At that time, the people worked hard all day, and the teahouse was their rest pavilion.
For various reasons, drinking morning tea, a food culture with Guangdong characteristics, was once interrupted in the mainland, but Cantonese restaurants and restaurants in Chinatown around the country were able to carry forward the culture of drinking morning tea. Especially after the reform and opening up, the food culture of drinking morning tea was brought back to South Guangdong by overseas Chinese, and snacks with different characteristics were added, forming a new mass morning tea culture.
This question is asked to the right person. You can have morning tea in Guangdong in the evening. It's not as simple as drinking tea You just eat all kinds of snacks, refreshments, steamed ribs, steamed chicken feet, barbecued pork buns, shrimp dumplings, boat porridge, quicksand steamed buns, steamed dumplings, spicy cakes, rice rolls, radish cakes, scattered eggs and sugar. Don't say that. You're already hungry.
Drinking morning tea is drinking morning tea. Is riding a bike riding a scalper?
What do you drink in Guangdong morning tea? Of course, fill your stomach, make an appointment with your friends for a rest day, and go to a tea restaurant for morning tea. Simply put, it's breakfast. The environment is better than the breakfast shop. You are embarrassed to sit for hours after dinner in the breakfast room. No matter when you sit, no one will kick you out. Many tea restaurants have discounts before 1 1. If you arrive around 9 o'clock, don't mind spelling a table. At this time, most of them are. For example, we seldom take a day off and have a sister party to chat. It doesn't matter what you eat or drink from morning till afternoon. The party is just for fun.
Drinking is a custom and a kind of inheritance.