The first custom: drink soup before meals.
Drinking soup before meals is an indispensable part of Guangdong's eating habits. You can spend hours making soup every day. It's delicious. It's really delicious. Chinese medicine believes that eating soup on an empty stomach can drive away the cold, clean the stomach and dredge the intestines. Modern medical research also proves that drinking soup before meals is beneficial to protect gastric mucosa, stimulate gastric juice and gastric acid secretion, help digestion and absorption, and help to lose weight. However, although the soup is delicious, don't cook it for too long, it will destroy many nutrients and lose some trace elements, which will have adverse effects on the body.
The second custom: I like to drink herbal tea.
Drinking herbal tea is a habit of Guangdong people all year round, so no matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, there are always many people drinking herbal tea in the teahouse. The so-called herbal tea, in fact, refers to the cold, can eliminate the internal heat of Chinese herbal medicine into a drink, in order to eliminate the human body's summer heat or winter dryness caused by sore throat. Its main components are Prunellae Spica, winter mulberry leaves, wild chrysanthemum, Artemisia capillaris, broken bowl, dark plum, plantain, Hedyotis diffusa, nutmeg flower, honeysuckle, perilla, mint, rose, lobelia chinensis and so on. There are also many kinds of herbal tea advertised as "eighteen flavors of herbal tea" or "twenty-four flavors of herbal tea", but in fact most of them are similar. Guangdong herbal tea has a long history, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Shi Qi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Dashenggong herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle flower tea, bitter gourd herbal tea and so on. There are even turtle ling paste soup, raw fish soup, carrots and bamboo cane water. It has become a traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Cantonese people like to sell in teahouses. Wang Lao Ji's most famous herbal tea has always been admired by Cantonese people. After the reform and opening up, with the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standards, in order to meet the needs of consumers, various kinds of herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being, such as Shennong herbal tea, Xiasangju tea, honeysuckle tea and winter melon tea, which became fashionable drinks for many families in summer.
The third custom: eat rice instead of noodles.
Southerners mainly grow rice, and their eating habits are naturally rice-based, so they have no habit of eating pasta since childhood. Even so, some people will eat some pasta more or less. But Cantonese people prefer rice to noodles. In Guangdong, except for foreigners who come here to make pasta, few locals can make pasta, especially noodles. Therefore, the living habit of "rice is not separated from rice, rice is rice" has been formed. If you eat noodles or other noodle products for lunch or dinner, you always feel that you didn't eat them afterwards. You can eat all kinds of rice products everywhere in Guangdong. For example, the famous rice noodles, rice noodles (broken rice) and rice rolls in food stalls can be fried, steamed or made into soup, plus some meatballs or ribs and pig's feet. There are all kinds of porridge soup, rice cakes and so on. No matter how the pattern is renovated, the raw material is always inseparable from rice.
The fourth custom: no chicken, no feast.
There is a jargon in the kitchen altar of Cantonese cuisine, which is called "no chicken, no table" or "no chicken, no table". There are good chicken customs all over Guangdong, such as the famous Qingyuan chicken, bearded chicken and so on; There are also many schools that are good at cooking chicken, such as brine chicken in Dongjiang and Market Chicken in Land Rover. There are also Qingping Chicken in Guangzhou, Tongji Chicken in changshou road, Taiye Chicken in Wen Ming Road and roadside chicken in Guangwei Road, all of which are very famous. In addition, there are boiled chicken, mushroom chicken, scallion chicken, steamed chicken, chestnut braised chicken, dry fried chicken, roast chicken, princess chicken and so on, which are all popular recipes. Among the colorful chicken cases, boiled chicken is the most eaten, which can be eaten in various restaurants. If you can't cook boiled chicken, this restaurant may not survive. In Guangdong, almost every meal has chicken. A banquet without chicken is as tasteless as a banquet without wine in the north.