Tea tasting is the same hobby of China people and British people. Tea entered Europe through East-West trade and was immediately popular. Today, when it comes to western tea tasting culture, it always reminds people of the British and elegant porcelain tea sets containing refreshments.

English afternoon tea

It is said that the concept of English afternoon tea originated from the 7th Duchess of Bedford (Anna, 1788-1861). In the 8th century, British people only used breakfast and dinner every day, while British aristocrats usually had dinner after 8:11 pm. In this way, the long time between breakfast and dinner makes many people hungry. The Duchess likes to invite three or five confidants to come home at around 4:11 every afternoon to enjoy the delicious tea, exquisite sandwiches and cupcakes contained in the above porcelain tableware, which is the beginning of English afternoon tea culture. Later, this habit became a common practice and became popular in aristocratic social circles, becoming a fashionable culture for fashionable ladies and gentlemen to get together in the afternoon and enjoy refreshments.

I like watching TVB TV series in Hong Kong best, many of which take place in tea restaurants. Many Hong Kong people spend their breakfast, afternoon tea or entertainment there. People who grew up in the mainland are very curious about tea restaurants.

The easiest way to understand Hong Kong is to walk into a crowded tea restaurant in the evening.

Hong Kong is sparsely populated, and the working speed is extremely fast. Cheap and high-quality tea restaurants are everywhere, each with its own way to win, and each with its own signature dishes. Even if the porridge and noodles are only as good as the others, there are still people waiting in line at night. In the eyes of Hong Kong people, only waiting in line to buy them is the extreme praise and high recognition of a brand. If you have time and energy, you are willing to stay at the gate of which famous tea restaurant.

Tea restaurant is a unique fast food restaurant in Hong Kong, which combines the characteristics of fast food restaurants and restaurants, provides western-style catering with Hong Kong characteristics, and is a popular eating place in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, there are tea restaurants all over the district, and the business hours are uncertain. Usually, from 6 am to 1 am, tea restaurants in busy areas such as Mong Kok are more likely to open all night.

If we want to talk about the food characteristics of Hong Kong people, of course, we must go to the teahouse and enjoy "one cup and two pieces". The scenes of waiters in old-style teahouses adding water to tea drinkers with big water pots, and dim sum clerks hanging dim sum plates on their chests with cloth belts to sell dim sum, all left an unforgettable page for Hong Kong's food history. Even though the old-style teahouse has gradually disappeared, the new-style restaurant replaced by it is still the first choice for most Hong Kong people to get together with their relatives and friends.

The habit of English afternoon tea has become a part of Hong Kong tea culture. The typical life in Hong Kong is that every three o'clock in the afternoon, people put down their work and go out of the office building to have a cup of afternoon tea, and some even last until seven o'clock in the evening. Drinking afternoon tea in the golden column of the peninsula lobby is a symbol of status. Since the middle of last century, afternoon tea in Peninsula Hotel has become a kind of pursuit of many Hong Kong people. In the 1981s, Chow Yun Fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Maggie Cheung and other frequent visitors once had the reputation of "Shadow Teahouse". Not only stars like to come here for leisure, but also senior officials of the Hong Kong Government sometimes entertain guests and friends here. The atmosphere here is also very suitable for the petty bourgeoisie who pursue elegance, freedom and leisure. After decades, no matter what the world is like, the pursuit and love for afternoon tea on the peninsula has been enduring. Nowadays, more and more tourists come here to see this kind of consumption as a scenic spot, and then guests living on the peninsula are treated or invited, which is purely an occasional luxury to comfort their nervous and tired hearts.