Jiangsu has been my country's land of plenty since ancient times. Yangzhou once led the way in history and is also a famous tourist city. Celebrities such as Li Bai and Du Mu once praised it in poems.

As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yangzhou was one of the central cities in Jiangsu, with stronger overall strength than Suzhou and Nanjing today.

The geographical advantages and salt merchant culture have driven Yangzhou's rapid development, and its bonsai art, garden art and food art are also unique.

Huaiyang cuisine, which is popular in Yangzhou, is one of the four famous dishes in China. Yangzhou has also been selected as the World Capital of Gastronomy by UNESCO. It is the only city in Jiangsu Province and even the entire Jiangnan region to be selected.

Currently, there are only eight cities in the world selected as world gastronomy capitals. In addition to Yangzhou, there are three more cities in China, namely Shunde, Macau and Chengdu.

The foreign cities selected as world gastronomy capitals are Popayan in Colombia, Odetsund in Sweden, Zahle in Lebanon and Jeonju in South Korea.

Yangzhou is beautiful to the core. Ge Garden and He Garden can be compared with Suzhou gardens. Slender West Lake is essentially a collection of classical gardens, and Daming Temple has a long history.

Of course, many tourists travel to Yangzhou mainly for the food.

There is a popular saying in Yangzhou: In the morning, the skin is filled with water, and in the evening, the skin is filled with water. What does this mean?

The former refers to food, and the latter refers to Yangzhou’s bathing culture.

In the narrow sense, Pi Bao Shui refers to Yangzhou's soup dumplings. Its outer layer is a layer of skin, and the meat filling soup inside is breaded. Pay attention to the tips when eating it. First, you need to gently lift the plate to chest level with one hand, and then use

Take a small bite with your mouth and drink up the soup.

This delicacy may seem simple, but it actually tests the skill of the chef.

In a broad sense, "Pi Bao Shui" refers to Yangzhou's morning tea culture, which is similar to Guangdong's morning tea culture. However, Yangzhou people pay more attention to the environment when drinking morning tea. Some well-known teahouses are opened in antique courtyards or gardens.

, Fuchun Tea House, Quyuan Tea House, and Zhichun Tea House are all like this.

There are countless morning tea snacks in Yangzhou. In the teahouse, tea is just the middle medium, and food is the protagonist. It not only satisfies people's appetite, but also plays a role in connecting emotions and killing time.

Drinking morning tea for Yangzhou people is not only a kind of enjoyment, but also a kind of sentiment. As a foreign tourist, it is a kind of enjoyment to integrate into this morning tea culture.

There are many classic dishes in Yangzhou morning tea. In addition to soup dumplings, there are also dried shredded noodles, crab shell roe, thousand-layer cake, jade siomai, sandwich buns, etc.

While enjoying the delicious food, chatting, and not forgetting to appreciate the beautiful garden scenery amidst the scent of tea, it is both elegant and elegant.

When I traveled to Yangzhou before, I made a special trip to taste morning tea every day and enjoyed this feeling very much.

Yangzhou's morning tea culture is very unique, and the types of dinner are more abundant and of higher quality.

The decoration of many well-known restaurants in Yangzhou is full of garden features, inheriting the style of the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially closely related to the salt merchant culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Yangzhou delicacies are carefully prepared and the presentation is very particular. Its taste is not too salty, not too bland, and generally just right. The local chefs are good at bringing out the umami flavor of the ingredients and using fine production techniques.

Give food a more profound cultural connotation.

Among Yangzhou delicacies, the boiled dried shreds fully demonstrate the knife skills of Huaiyang cuisine chefs. The braised silver carp head, grilled whole pig head, and crab meat lion head are unforgettable. The classic dish Buddha Tiaoqiang is also made with local characteristics, which can be called Buddha Tiaoqiang.

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