Jiangmen Food Culture Jiangmen people love to eat, and any food culture can be integrated, and food culture from any place can be found. The restaurants in Jiangmen are even more prosperous, reaching the point where there is one restaurant every three steps and one restaurant every five steps. Home food is mainly based on Lingnan eating habits. The most representative ones are morning tea and late night snacks. Morning tea culture 1. Historical background Morning tea is an important part of Guangdong’s traditional culture. Every weekend or holiday, Jiangmen people bring together the old and the young, or make appointments with close friends to gather at the teahouse to have morning tea. "Sigh" means enjoyment in Cantonese. It can be seen that drinking morning tea is a pleasant pastime in the minds of Jiangmen people. In this sense, it is no different from other entertainment activities. Speaking of the origin of Guangdong morning tea, it can be traced back to the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years. At that time, there was a restaurant called "Yiliguan" in Guangzhou. A wooden sign with the word "tea" was hung at the door. It served tea and cakes. The facilities were simple, with only a few wooden tables and stools to welcome guests and entertain passers-by. Stop and talk. Later, tea houses appeared, which gradually grew in size and turned into tea houses. Since then, it has become a common practice for Cantonese people to go to tea houses to drink morning tea. To this day, tea has become a supporting role in Guangdong morning tea, while refreshments are becoming more and more exquisite and diverse. With the rapid economic development of Guangdong, this traditional culture not only shows no signs of disappearing, but has become more and more a beautiful scenery in the leisure life of Guangdong people. 2. Tea and snacks: Morning tea, tea is naturally an indispensable part of it. The tea for morning tea is mainly black tea, which can warm the stomach, remove greasiness, and facilitate digestion. Common ones include oolong tea, Tieguanyin, and Pu'er tea. Some people also like to drink chrysanthemum tea, which means adding chrysanthemums to Pu'er tea for its cooling effect and dispelling fire. Black tea is deep red in color, has a thick soup, and has a bitter taste. Although it is not as good as green tea in terms of appearance and taste, it is an excellent match with rich tea snacks. The role of refreshments in morning tea is even more important. Tea snacks are divided into dry and wet snacks. Dry snacks include dumplings, pink fruits, steamed buns, crispy pastries, etc.; wet snacks include porridge, meat, turtle paste, tofu curd, etc. Among them, the dried ones are the most exquisite and look very good. For example, the signature shrimp dumplings must be made in every teahouse. Two or three fresh shrimps are wrapped in translucent crystal dumpling wrappers. Before lifting the chopsticks, you can see a little reddish color in the crystal. Once you bite into it, the crystal dumplings will appear. The unique flexibility of the skin and the natural sweetness and crispness of the shrimp combine to create a delicious taste that will leave people with endless aftertaste. Another example is the bird's nest pastry egg tart specially made by some high-end teahouses. Several layers of golden and crispy egg tart shells contain tender yellow and transparent bird's nests. The first sight of it will whet your appetite, not to mention the bird's nest after you eat it. The sweetness and softness of the pastry are perfectly combined with the pink and crispy texture of the pastry, making it so delicious that you can’t stop eating it. Various porridges, such as Ji Di porridge, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, raw fish fillet porridge, etc., are all based on a soft and smooth porridge base, topped with different kinds of meat, fish and eggs, and then served with crispy shrimp slices and green onions. Then, sprinkle a small spoonful of pepper, and it will taste soft, sweet, and rich in umami. 2. Jiangmen morning tea style morning tea time is usually from around 7 o'clock in the morning to lunch. Every weekend or holiday, Jiangmen people bring together the old and the young, or make appointments with close friends to gather at the teahouse to have morning tea. "Sigh" means enjoyment in Cantonese. It can be seen that drinking morning tea is a pleasant pastime in the minds of Jiangmen people. At this level, it is no different from other entertainment activities. The elderly who have some spare money in their pockets are the main drinkers of morning tea. Whether it is those who have returned from morning exercise, or those who got up late after doing massage last night, or those who are nothing but morning tea lovers, their first reaction in the morning is to go to the teahouse. There are their confidants who have been "conversation therapy" for many years. They can talk freely in the teahouse about topics that are difficult or inconvenient to discuss with their families. Although there are many types of refreshments and the prices vary a lot, there are only the same ones they like to eat most, and the plus or minus error at each checkout is no more than one yuan. Their consumption level is not high, but there are many of them and they come every day. The teahouse’s attendance depends entirely on them. Without them, the teahouse would be much deserted, and the business would gradually slow down and even go downhill. Therefore, they definitely enjoy the courtesy of being a guest. . Businessmen are the main contributors to teahouse profits. Their group of people is not fixed, it’s either this or that, but a group of people will come every day. "If you don't have any profit, you won't be able to come early." Even though they were exhausted from yesterday's nightlife, for business needs, they must be ready to respond to calls and come even if no one is invited. They order the most expensive but not necessarily the best food, especially the lucrative roasted, grilled, braised chicken, duck, goose, etc., as well as the large table of drinks that any restaurant welcomes guests to order.

Members of our daily team interviewed the person in charge of a teahouse. He said that the profit of one table for businessmen is equivalent to more than 10 tables for seniors. A teahouse with more than 40 tables would be very profitable as long as it has 5 tables like this every day. Late night snack culture The "late night snack" time is generally from 8:30 to late at night, and some even until early morning. "Late night snack", also called late night snack, includes not only "drinking night tea", but also other ways of eating without drinking tea, such as simply eating a bowl of stew, or eating a bowl of wontons. In order to attract diners and prosper the market, not only are many teahouses, restaurants, restaurants, and hotels opening night markets one after another, but individual restaurants and stalls all over the streets are also competing to operate night markets, often forming a night snack street, commonly known as "food." street". The lively scene of late night snacks can be compared with drinking morning tea. When eating late night snacks, one is to "sigh" (enjoy), and the other is to exchange information and connect with each other, so the sitting time is longer and the consumption level is higher than in the morning tea market. The variety of late-night snacks is very rich, including high, medium and low-end. There are many exquisite dim sum, as well as fried field snails, boiled beef louvers, sweet and sour pig's feet, chicken feet, fried chicken wings, beef offal, beef balls, soup dumplings, and fresh shrimps. Wontons, seafood, delicacies, and snakes can also be cooked to order, as well as various hot pots, stir-fries, various noodles, desserts, porridges, etc. The choice is yours. In the traditional "Water Street" section with a history of over a hundred years, there is the famous "Heji Rice Roll Rice Roll Shop". Their beef rice roll rolls are tender and smooth, and the soy sauce is made from roast goose juice, which is very tasty. Sometimes I come across the festive cured broccoli, the sauce is soaked in, and it tastes fragrant. It is also a form of casual gathering for people, friends, relatives, and lovers, ordering a few of their favorite foods. , eating and talking, while admiring the night scenery of Jiangmen, spending a good night, holding a lamp by the river, watching the colorful scenery on both sides of the Pengjiang River, it is even more refreshing and fun. Late-night snacks have become another feature of Jiangmen's nightlife. Drinking morning tea and late-night snacks are not about eating, but more about communication. Some psychological experts have said that people are in a better mood when eating than at other times. The colorful Jiangmen food culture Jiangmen introduces representative delicacies from major cuisines across the country to express local customs and form a rich atmosphere of Chinese food culture. It highlights the characteristics of various snacks from all over the country and forms a distinctive food street with exotic flavors. Jiangmen citizens "can eat all over the world without leaving Jiangmen." In addition to the traditional morning tea, late night snacks, which are a major feature of nightlife, Hunan restaurants, Northeastern cuisine, Fujian famous dumplings, there are also flavors from all over the world, Japanese cuisine, Western restaurants, etc. It is really "there are only things you can't imagine, and there is nothing you can't eat" Arrived”! Jiangmen’s delicacies are famous all over the world. Wuyi people are actually advocating a positive and healthy life concept and a scientific and green food culture, and are constantly carrying forward the exquisite, harmonious, generous, open and innovative spirit of Jiangmen City.