When it comes to morning tea, most people think of Guangzhou first.

As we all know, there is also a tradition of drinking morning tea in Jiangnan town, which is three hours' drive from Hangzhou. The morning tea culture here is even longer than that in Guangzhou.

Li Yu, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, once described it as "not surprising at first glance, exciting with two eyes and fascinating with three eyes".

This is the hometown of treasure-Jinhua Lanxi.

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Jiangnan diyizao tea street

A cup of morning tea has been drunk for thousands of years.

It is said that Jinhua morning tea is in Lanxi and Lanxi morning tea is in the port. Eating morning tea has been a custom for tourists for thousands of years.

Because it is located at the intersection of three rivers, the waterway is developed. As early as the early Tang Dynasty, there were docks in tourist ports. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many shops and businessmen in the market town, which was the most prosperous commercial port in the lower reaches of Qujiang River.

Merchants came to the town with their goods before dawn to trade, and the teahouse became their exchange place.

Although commercial ports are no longer prosperous, the ancient tradition of morning tea has been completely preserved. Eating morning tea has become a natural way of life here.

Uber people drink local coarse tea and eat common snacks such as shortbread, fried dough sticks and glutinous rice balls. In these ordinary simplicity, they can feel the free and easy leisure of Jiangnan people.

At four o'clock in the morning, the teahouse in the street began to wash the stove, boil water and make morning tea. Within half an hour, tea guests came from all directions.

Tea drinkers in tourist ports are mostly local farmers. They have to go back to farm work after breakfast, so the morning tea street will disperse at 9 am.

Leisure is the characteristic of port morning tea. On the old street, you can see long tables randomly placed. In fact, even the table is temporarily served by the door panel.

Sit down anywhere, ask for a bowl of morning tea, order some snacks from the vendor next to you, and you can chat with your neighbors all over the world.

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A veritable "snack kingdom"

The Soul of Uber Morning Tea

Snacks are essential when there is morning tea. These traditional snacks, such as wonton, fried rice noodles, steamed stuffed buns and chicken gizzards, are the soul of Uber morning tea.

Some local teahouses can use them for breakfast, and there are also special breakfast shops next to them. Although these shops are inconspicuous, any one has been open for decades or hundreds of years.

And the snacks hidden in these shops are delicious, not to mention how delicious they can be!

Chicken gizzard-

Speaking of chicken gizzards, my mouth is watering. It is characterized by thin skin as paper, delicious and juicy meat stuffing, tender and smooth, full of mixed aroma of eggs, meat and onions, and is the best in Lanxi flavor cuisine.

Go to the harbor to make cakes-

Uber indigenous cake is made of brown sugar, which can kill most of its kind in the market. The evaporated cake rosin is soft and waxy, and a bite is sweet but not greasy. It is a unique taste in Uber morning tea culture.

Fried dough sticks with cake-

The cake just taken out of the oven will smell like oil and smell like a mess; After the scallion cake is baked, it will give off a strange onion smell. The sesame seeds sprinkled on it make the smell more charming and make the hungry stomach "goo goo" every minute.

Bite it down in one bite, crispy, oily but not greasy, and chewy. Eating only cakes is dry, and eating only fried dough sticks is oily. Only the fritters cake is just right.

Six-finger shortbread—

Jinhua shortbread is Lanxi, and Lanxi shortbread is a tourist port. The best of Uber's six-finger shortbread is the combination of dried lard and dried plums. Take a bite while it's hot, your mouth is full of oil and your teeth are fragrant ~ It's called "six-finger shortcake" because the shortcake maker really has six fingers!

Li Yuxiao Wonton-

It is no exaggeration to describe the skin of Li Yuxiao wonton with the words "as thin as cicada wings". A bowl of clear soup, with a little golden oil flower floating on it, is dotted with chopped green onion, and two black balls are wrapped in wonton, swimming in it like a fresh fish with a tail. Thin skin and fresh stuffing, fresh and smooth taste, full of fragrance.

Tofu rolls—

"Tofu Roll", also called "Tofu Tangyuan", is made of salty tofu produced locally in Lanxi, and the cooked tangyuan is put in the mouth. The uneven outer wall of fresh tofu melts as soon as it touches your mouth, making it fresh and tender, and every taste bud can get the ultimate comfort.

Salty jiaozi-

Youyou glutinous rice balls are special in that they are different from ordinary glutinous rice balls in round shape, but have a small tail, which looks cute and wide ~

It is said that salty dumplings are a necessary snack for local mother-in-law to entertain her son-in-law. The fillings are radish, diced bamboo shoots, tofu, meat, onions and so on. Salted dumplings are extra large, boiled in soup, sprinkled with soy sauce and chopped green onion, and the taste is very unique.

These are just the tip of the iceberg of this "snack kingdom"

More food, waiting for you to explore ~