According to statistics, by the end of 2015, there were 126,000 restaurants in Guangzhou, and the annual per capita consumption of food and beverage in Guangzhou reached 4,143 yuan, more than seven times the national average. Here, you can not only eat a rich variety of "to Sui standard" - morning tea, can easily explore the "good value for money" of a variety of small restaurants, but also eat all over the world's top food! ......

As the capital of commerce for a thousand years, Guangzhou's "food culture" certainly has a lot to do with its unique "commerce gene". The so-called business, can not squat to the street to chew on two steamed bread on the calculation up. So, there is tea, a seat in the teahouse became the earliest intelligence trading place.

Slowly, the business more and more talk about the bigger, drink a few cups of tea, has been less able to meet the talk about happy business people, so some teahouses will provide a few exquisite "tea" to meet the needs of guests.

Because in the information, transportation is not developed in the era, intelligence information only early to hand, in order to play the maximum effect, so, "drinking morning tea" has become a major habit of the people of Lingnan region.

With the gradual increase in exchanges between the north and the south, many dishes and cooking techniques rich in northern characteristics also came to Guangzhou, after the transformation of the local chef, became an authentic Cantonese cuisine, Guangzhou cuisine (also known as Canton cuisine, is one of the most important genres of traditional Chinese culinary culture, representative of the Cantonese cuisine, originated in Guangzhou.) The first embryonic form.

In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the corruption of the Qing court, constantly through various means to squeeze the Guangzhou "thirteen lines" merchants to enrich the national treasury, coupled with foreign aggression, "internal and external problems" under the "Thirteen" can only fall apart.

Many Guangzhou merchants with their families to the "new port" Shanghai "to make a living", and brought, of course, Guangzhou's "culinary tradition". For a while, the Cantonese restaurants run by Guangzhou merchants became a bright pearl on the Shanghai Bund.

At the same time, Guangzhou merchants who went to the South Seas, Europe and the United States to engage in commerce and trade also "took root" at the same time, so that the "Cantonese cuisine" in the "Chinatown" around the competition to open up, "food" in the "Chinatown". Competitively open, "food in Guangzhou" by is resounding all over the world.

After the reform and opening up, with the "Canton Fair" and other activities with international influence held in Guangzhou, more and more foreign businessmen stationed in Guangzhou, but also from their hometown flavor. The meaning of "Food in Guangzhou" has gradually changed into the triple meaning of "authentic Cantonese cuisine + national cuisine + worldwide cuisine".

So the next time someone asks you why you eat in Guangzhou, please memorize the above statement word for word!

Do Guangzhou people really eat everything? No, they don't! No, they don't! Not! Multiply that by the Nth power of your ID number! Not only do Guangzhou people not only dare to put everything into their mouths, but they also have a more than normal obsession and perfectionism in the matter of "eating".

Walking on the streets of Guangzhou, you may not see too many luxury cars and watches, not see the body light neck beautiful young women, but don't think it's because of the Guangzhou people are too "stingy" to spend money to enjoy. But don't think it's because they're so "cheap" that they don't want to spend money. You don't know that the low-profile guy on the street wearing an "undershirt + double chimney" suit is a "multi-millionaire" in no time at all.

The deep-rooted Guangzhou master's wife, but also all have a hand in the "family recipes" that will never be shared with the public, fearless of the "daily soup" difficult challenge, and even according to the seasonal and family "fire index Even according to the season and the family's "fire index", it can carefully match the "customized" therapeutic packages from the beautiful soup before meals to the sugar water after meals. Let you unknowingly by yam, angelica, Chinese wolfberry, black-eyed peas, barley, snow fungus, a full range of seamless moisturizing, resistance to the Lingnan region's unique "hot and humid disease".

To "respect the ingredients" as the highest culinary mystery of the Guangzhou people in the choice of ingredients can be said to be very meticulous, and even life and death outside the "belly".

It can be recalled that during the recurring outbreaks of avian flu, the Guangzhou municipal government's decision to ban the sale of live chickens in the city sparked fierce opposition from the public.

Guangzhou is not like Beijing or Shanghai, with its array of "high-class restaurants", and not like Sichuan, Chongqing and Hunan, with its brand-name, distinctive "specialties", but Guangzhou has the most discerning diners, and loves the most! But Guangzhou has the most discerning diners, the most favorite "to eat to meet friends" of the public, and buried deep in the taste buds of the true love of the human world.

As for what Michelin is not Michelin, "XX food capital", "X big food city", but just a little bit of ordinary life embellishments ... ...

Instead, in recent years, Cantonese cuisine, which has a light flavor, has slightly lost favor in the "heavy-flavor encirclement war" of the "Netflix" brands such as Sichuan and Hunan. "And y" business difficulties "for many years," Cosmos Restaurant, Li Hua, drunken Qionglou and other traditional Cantonese restaurants have also been "closed", more "old diners! "The old diners" sigh.