When I set off from Guangzhou to Yangzhou, I checked information about Yangzhou on the Internet and found that Yangzhou has a title called "The Food Capital of the World".

As we all know, Guangzhou is a city of gourmet food. “Food is in Guangzhou and beauty is in the Flower City.” Why is Yangzhou called the world’s gourmet capital?

With this question in mind, I got on the plane to Yangzhou.

The chef who came to pick us up was a humorous and kind-hearted local man from Yangzhou. He said that when in Yangzhou, you must experience "the water in your skin in the morning and the water in your skin in the evening".

I was stunned for a moment when I heard this term. I asked what does skinny and watery foreskin mean?

He said that water in a skin is like drinking morning tea (tea is wrapped in the belly), and water in a skin is like taking a bath.

We checked into the Shangri-La Hotel, one of the most famous hotels in Yangzhou. After putting down our luggage, it was already lunch time. I heard that the food at Shangri-La was very good, so I planned to have a look at the buffet restaurant on the second floor.

I was attracted as soon as I entered the restaurant. It was full of all kinds of seafood, including lobster, sashimi, oysters, fish, and shellfish. I saw many people on the table with large plates of crayfish in front of them.

I thought about how much it would cost to buy so much seafood. Later I learned that the original price was 168 yuan. During the epidemic, there were coupons and the discounted price was 138 yuan, so many Yangzhou locals came here to eat.

The first meal in Yangzhou ended in a surprise.

In the evening, we still had dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel. A dozen people ordered a lobster feast, 30 pounds, six flavors, the price was 2,988 yuan, and everyone was full in the end.

To be honest, the crayfish in Yangzhou are really delicious and cheaper than those in Guangzhou.

June is the season when crayfish are on the market in large quantities. As the saying goes, it’s better to come early than to come well.

After staying in Yangzhou for four or five days, I checked into a well-known local teahouse every morning. I went to Shangri-La Hotel for morning tea, Quyuan, Zhichun, and Jinchun. Each one has its own characteristics, and the most common one is exquisiteness, such as

A piece of tofu is cut into thousands of shredded tofu, which melts in your mouth. It is called Wensi Tofu Soup, which was featured in "A Bite of China"; another example is a cucumber cut into slices, each slice is the same thickness, like a work of art.

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