As the trade capital of the Millennium, Guangzhou's "food culture" can't be separated from its unique "business gene". When talking about business, you can't just squat on the street and chew two steamed buns. As a result, a teahouse with tea and seats became the earliest information trading place.
Slowly, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and drinking a few cups of tea is no longer enough to satisfy happy business people, so some tea houses will provide several exquisite "refreshments" to meet the needs of guests.
However, in the era of underdeveloped information and transportation, intelligence information can only play its greatest role if it is obtained as soon as possible. Therefore, "drinking morning tea" has become a major habit of people in Lingnan area.
With the increasing exchanges between North and South, many dishes and cooking skills with northern characteristics have also spread to Guangzhou. After the transformation of local chefs, it has become an authentic Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine (also known as Guangfu cuisine) is one of the most important schools of traditional food culture in China, the representative of Cantonese cuisine and the birthplace of Guangzhou. ) has begun to take shape.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the corruption of the Qing court, the merchants of the "Thirteen Lines" in Guangzhou were constantly squeezed by various means to enrich the national treasury, and foreign aggression was growing day by day, so the "Thirteen Lines" could only collapse under the "internal troubles and foreign invasion".
Many Guangzhou businessmen take their families to Shanghai, a "new port", to "make a living". Of course, Guangzhou's "gourmet tradition" also follows. For a time, the Cantonese restaurant opened by Guangzhou businessmen became a bright pearl on the beach.
At the same time, Guangzhou businessmen who went to Nanyang, Europe and the United States to engage in business also took root. At the same time, "Cantonese cuisine" was launched in "Chinatown" around the country, and "Eating in Guangzhou" became famous all over the world.
After the reform and opening up, with the Canton Fair and other internationally influential activities held in Guangzhou, more and more foreign businessmen settled in Guangzhou, which also brought the flavor of their hometown. The meaning of "eating in Guangzhou" has gradually changed into the triple meaning of "authentic Cantonese cuisine+ethnic cuisine+cuisine from all over the world".
So, the next time someone asks you why you "eat in Guangzhou", please recite every word you said above!
Do people in Guangzhou really eat everything? Don't! Don't! Don't! Multiply by the n power of the ID number! Guangzhou people not only dare to put anything into their mouths, but also have extraordinary persistence and perfectionism in "eating".
Walking on the streets of Guangzhou, you may not see too many luxury cars and young beautiful women with bare necks, but don't think that it is because Guangzhou people are too stingy to spend money to enjoy them. As we all know, the low-key boy wearing a "vest+chimney" suit on the street is a "multi-millionaire".
The hidden Guangzhou teacher's milk is a "family secret recipe" that everyone will never spread. It is not afraid of the challenge of "cooking soup every day", and can even carefully match the "customized" diet package from cooking soup before meals to sugar water after meals according to the solar terms and the "index of getting angry" of family members. Let you unconsciously be nourished by yam, angelica, medlar, plum beans, coix seed and tremella, and resist the unique "damp-heat syndrome" in Lingnan area.
Guangzhou people who regard "respect for ingredients" as the highest meaning of cooking can be said to be very meticulous in the choice of ingredients, and even put life and death outside their stomachs.
I still remember that at the node where the bird flu epidemic broke out repeatedly, the Guangzhou municipal government pushed the city to "ban the sale of live chickens" through the public, which triggered fierce opposition from the public.
Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, Guangzhou has many "high-class restaurants". Unlike Sichuan, Chongqing and Hunan, Guangzhou has "specialty dishes" with loud brands and distinctive tonality, but Guangzhou has the most discerning diners, citizens who love "making friends with food" and true love for human fireworks buried deep in taste buds.
As for what Michelin is not Michelin, "XX Food City" and "X Food City" are just a little embellishment in ordinary life. ...
On the contrary, in recent years, Cantonese cuisine with a weak taste has fallen out of favor in the "heavy taste encirclement and suppression war" of online celebrity brands such as Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, while traditional Cantonese restaurants such as Datong Restaurant, Lihua and Zuiqionglou, which have been "difficult to operate" for many years, have also closed down one after another, which makes old diners lament.