There are six categories of Cantonese morning tea snacks, namely steamed meat, desserts, small steamed steamed buns, large steamed buns steamed, porridge and fried. Cantonese-style dim sum is extremely exquisite and comes in many varieties. In famous restaurants in Guangzhou, there can be as many as 100 varieties of dim sum.
Guangdong morning tea is a Lingnan folk food custom. Cantonese people drink morning tea, sometimes as breakfast, and usually the whole family sits around the table to enjoy family happiness.
The delicious tea soup forms an important part of the Cantonese diet, and also lays the foundation for another interesting form of dining.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou, the center of Guangfu culture, was once the only foreign trade port in the country. The rapid development of the commodity economy also promoted the urbanization and industrialization of surrounding areas. A large number of foreigners, surrounding craftsmen, farmers, and out-of-town businessmen poured into Guangzhou, making Guangzhou the absolute center of the south for people and logistics, and the complexity of society also greatly increased.
Characteristics of morning tea
1. Various styles: morning tea includes barbecued pork buns, rice rolls, thin-skin shrimp dumplings, dry steamed siomai, steamed pork ribs, shrimp and vegetable dumplings, custard buns, Mala cakes, ginger milk, carrot cakes, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, quicksand buns, chicken feet, etc., as long as they are snacks, you can see them on the morning tea table.
2. It takes a long time: in a morning tea shop, people will be waiting for it before it opens, and until almost eleven o'clock, there will be customers coming for morning tea. Moreover, most of the guests who have morning tea in the store come with their relatives and friends, order a table of delicious food, sit down and chat while eating. They can eat and chat from 7 am to 11:30 noon. many.