Guangzhou has been an important town in the south of China since ancient times. After Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan, Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and customs quickly merged, and Guangzhou became the cultural center of Lingnan. There were many rivers and tributaries in ancient Guangzhou, with abundant rainfall and pleasant climate. The west, east and north are surrounded by mountains, with lush forests and grass, rich fruits in Lingnan and numerous birds and animals. South of the sea, the beach is vast, producing many salty and fresh water products and amphibians, which makes ancient Guangzhou one of the regions with the richest food resources in China. The formation of Cantonese cuisine has a long history, and a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains moved to Lingnan, which made Guangzhou's food culture deeply influenced by the Central Plains. As early as the Han and Wei Dynasties, the snake dishes, roasted goose and fish soup in Guangzhou had been affected. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Song fled south with his kitchen, and many court delicacies spread to the people in Guangzhou. After the Opium War, missionaries and businessmen from Europe and America flooded in, and thousands of businessmen gathered in Guangzhou, which provided a broad market for the development of catering industry. Guangdong cuisine absorbs the advantages of Central Plains cuisine and Western cuisine, and then absorbs the advantages of Guangdong local cuisine. Just like Guangzhou's culture, it blends ancient and modern, and Chinese and western cultures run through, forming a unique Guangzhou food culture different from other places in China, winning the reputation of "Eating in Guangzhou" and enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. Numerous tourists come here to taste delicious food and feel this unique Lingnan food culture.

The most obvious feeling in Guangzhou is that there are many restaurants and restaurants. As long as you want to eat, you can eat a variety of food anytime and anywhere. Tea market is the most attractive feature of Guangzhou's diet. In the past, there was only "morning tea" in Guangzhou, but now it has developed into three tea markets: morning, noon and evening. Almost all restaurants and restaurants have set up tea markets. As soon as the guests were seated, the waiter immediately called, "How many people? What kind of tea to drink? " The tea market provides all kinds of salty, sweet and dry snacks such as buffet to meet your needs, and the price is very affordable, which can be consumed by the general public. Guangzhou tea market has become an important social occasion for friends to get together and exchange ideas, an important way for family members to get together and enjoy family happiness, an effective buffer for modern tense and fast-paced life and work, and an important way for some people, especially the elderly, to relax. A morning paper, a cup or two, can sit for hours, eating, watching TV, chatting, caring about family affairs, state affairs and what's going on in the world.

There are many kinds of exotic ingredients in Cantonese cuisine, such as snakes as dragons, chickens as phoenixes, cats as tigers, rats as deer, flying in the sky, crawling on the ground and swimming in the water. Cantonese cuisine is fresh and smooth, light in summer and autumn, and rich in winter and spring. It uses unique spices, cooking, roasting, soaking, frying, boiling, simmering and other techniques to cook dishes with unique local flavor. The "raw seafood" of Cantonese cuisine has its own characteristics. Many restaurants and restaurants have not properly decorated their halls. First, the seafood pool at the entrance should be designed to display dozens of raw seafood to attract customers. Cooking and drinking herbal tea in Cantonese cuisine is a pioneering work for Guangzhou people to adapt to the geographical and climatic environment and adapt to local conditions. "What's cooking today?" It is a necessary topic for housewives to meet and chat, and there is a lot of knowledge in it. Guangdong restaurants have all kinds of dishes. Every once in a while, restaurants will create new dishes with new raw materials and different combinations, so as to enhance their competitiveness, and a new food trend will often be set off in the market, which is the strong vitality of "eating in Guangzhou".

Analyzing the natural landscape and human environment of "Eating in Guangzhou" has rich cultural connotations. First of all, it is open. Guangzhou is located along the coast with convenient transportation, and has been an important port for economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries since ancient times. The open environment endows Guangzhou people with an open way of thinking, which is reflected in the open mentality of "eating to the full" in diet. Hotel restaurants with North-South flavor can be found all over the streets of Guangzhou, and almost all the major cuisines in China and the flavors from all over the world can be found. The second is compatibility. An open culture must be compatible at the same time. Lingnan culture has the characteristics of eclecticism and inclusiveness, which is also fully reflected in Guangzhou's diet. The third is pioneering. Guangzhou people dare to eat anything, and are good at exploring traditional local flavor foods and eating methods, constantly transplanting and transforming, and bringing forth the new. There is such an ancestral motto among Guangdong chefs: "There is tradition, but there is no authenticity." It embodies the courage and pioneering spirit of Guangzhou people who dare to be the first in the world. In addition, Guangzhou people don't waste food, but they also "pack" it back after eating it, which embodies the virtues of Guangdong people who cherish food and are diligent and thrifty. Guangzhou cuisine has raised eating and cooking to the artistic level, and has become an important part of Lingnan culture, which has greatly enriched the connotation and characteristics of Lingnan culture and had a far-reaching impact on the food culture in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

With the development of economy, social progress and the continuous expansion of opening to the outside world, Guangzhou's food culture is also constantly developing and changing. On the one hand, Guangzhou's food culture has been impacted by foreign cultures, such as western fast food culture represented by McDonald's and KFC, which has occupied the market of many young people and children and brought about new changes in people's living customs and cultural concepts. On the other hand, the continuous improvement of people's living standards has laid an economic foundation for the development of Guangzhou's food culture. "Eating in Guangzhou" is also facing good development opportunities, showing the following development trends: First, the combination of food and tourism. The setting of hotels and hotels should be adapted to the development of tourist attractions, attach importance to the protection and construction of time-honored brands, and promote each other with the overall planning of tourism products; The tourism department holds the "Guangzhou International Food Festival" every year, which attracts visitors from all directions, widely publicizes Guangzhou food culture, and effectively combines food with tourism. Second, it is convenient to eat. In view of the rapid development of modern work and life, all kinds of food, semi-finished products and fast food have developed rapidly and are widely welcomed. Third, food nutrition science. From "satiating" to "eating well", Guangzhou people gradually pay attention to the scientific collocation of nutritional structure, food supplement, dietotherapy and medicated diet, and the study and research on nutrition is in the ascendant. Fourth, raw materials are naturalized. People in Guangzhou pay more and more attention to environmental protection and sustainable development. Safe vegetables and meat have become a public concern, and the market demand for green food and pollution-free food is expanding day by day. Fifth, the taste of food. Restaurants in Guangzhou pay more and more attention to decoration, elegant style and comfortable environment. The display of the hall, the naming of dishes and the costumes of waiters all reveal the taste of food culture. Coupled with melodious music, or set up dance art, fashion show, or set up karaoke, so that diners can enjoy eating and drinking in a beautiful artistic atmosphere. This combination of diet and culture and art makes the taste of Guangzhou cuisine constantly improve, and diners will enjoy more and more rich food culture.

Colorful food culture is an important window to reflect the economic and social development of Guangzhou. It is believed that with the construction and development of Guangzhou as a modern central city, the potential of "food in Guangzhou" is infinite, and the future prospect will be more brilliant.

Eating Cantonese food to the fullest is indeed the most attractive enjoyment. Among the major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine is particularly prominent. Its exquisite cooking technology, diverse dishes, delicious taste, perfect overall design of color, fragrance, taste and shape, elegant dining environment and atmosphere, meticulous and thoughtful service, etc. Are second to none. Cantonese cuisine is dominated by Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang, with Guangzhou as the representative and unique southern flavor. In today's China, from the capital to the frontier, from the coast to the customs, a "Cantonese cuisine style" is sweeping across the country, even impacting the market originally occupied by other cuisines.

Cantonese cuisine originated in Lingnan. Since ancient times, Guangzhou has been an important port for China to trade with overseas countries, which has enabled the social economy to prosper and promoted the development of food culture. Gradually absorbed various cooking methods at home and abroad, which enriched and improved Guangdong's cooking skills and made its unique style increasingly distinct. There are many overseas Chinese living in Guangdong. They bring home the cooking skills they learned in Europe, America and Southeast Asia. In this situation, Cantonese cuisine has developed rapidly, and finally formed a unique style that combines North and South flavors and Chinese and Western cooking, which stands out among major cuisines and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

Guangzhou cuisine is the main body and representative of Cantonese cuisine, including the dietary flavor of the Pearl River Delta and its surrounding areas. A major feature of Guangzhou cuisine is the variety of ingredients. You can eat almost everything that flies in the sky, crawls underground and swims in the water. Once the chef's skills are superb, they all become delicious food, which makes the eaters clap their hands and exclaim as "rare treasures"

Guangzhou cuisine pays special attention to exquisite cooking skills. There are as many as 2 1 cooking methods, especially frying, frying, stewing, frying, stewing and buckling. It pays attention to the temperature, especially "frying" and frying and eating now. The cooked dishes pay attention to color, fragrance, taste and shape. The taste is mainly clear, fresh, tender and refreshing, which changes with the seasons. Light in summer and autumn, rich in winter and spring, with five flavors (fragrant, crisp, crisp, fat and strong) and six flavors (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and fresh). There are many seasonings in Guangzhou cuisine, such as oyster sauce, fish sauce, vermicelli sauce, sand tea sauce, black bean sauce, passion fruit juice, sweet and sour sauce, sour plum sauce, curry powder and lemon juice, which play a decisive role in the unique flavor of Guangzhou cuisine. However, compared with other cuisines in China, Guangzhou cuisine uses less strong and spicy seasonings to keep the original flavor of food.

The famous dishes of Guangzhou cuisine are: roast suckling pig, Long Hudou, old chicken, braised skirt wings, chrysanthemum, dragon and tiger, phoenix, snake soup and so on.

Chaozhou cuisine is the local flavor of Chaoshan. The eating habits in Chaoshan area are similar to those in southern Fujian, and influenced by Guangzhou area, they gradually integrate the strengths of the two families and have their own flavors. Chaozhou cuisine is good at cooking seafood, especially soup, which has the most distinctive features, exquisite processing and pure taste, and pays attention to maintaining the umami flavor of raw materials. Cooking is good at stewing, stewing, burning, frying, steaming, frying and soaking. The taste is still fresh, gloomy but not greasy. Love to use seasonings such as fish sauce and sand tea sauce. Famous dishes with special flavor include Chaozhou roast goose, Chaozhou sauce chicken, Huguosu soup, boiled mandarin ducks and crabs. Sweet food is characterized by taro paste, black fruit soup and so on.

Dongjiang cuisine, also known as Hakka cuisine, refers to the hometown dishes of "Hakka" in Dongjiang River Basin. Dongjiang cuisine is characterized by prominent main ingredients, rich flavor and simple shape. Most dishes are meat, vegetables and aquatic products are few, oil is heavy and salty, and casserole dishes are good at it. Famous dishes with unique flavor include brine chicken, stuffed tofu, braised pork with plum, whole duck in Babaowo and so on.

Cantonese dim sum also has its own characteristics. There are so many beautiful scenic spots in Guangdong, which is probably the best in the country. Guangzhou Panxi Restaurant, known as the "first snack", can make exquisite snacks over 1000. Cantonese dim sum is characterized by wide selection of materials, fine production, various patterns, salty and sweet taste and fresh taste. All kinds of snacks pay attention to harmonious colors and different shapes, which set each other off and make people never tire of eating. Snacks with local characteristics include: shrimp dumplings, steamed dumplings, vermicelli, Pantang horseshoe cake, honeycomb taro horn, chicken cake, glutinous rice chicken, hometown salt water horn and rice rolls with various fillings.

Guangdong enjoys good fruits all year round, and litchi, mango, banana, carambola, longan and pineapple with unique flavor are listed in turn. Su Can Dongpo's praise of "300 lychees a day, being a Lingnan person" is not famous in the world. Guangdong people's "food is the most important thing" lifestyle makes Guangdong's catering industry rank first in the country, attracting all kinds of food from all over the country and other places, from extremely luxurious high-end restaurants to cheap civilian food stalls, as well as restaurants such as forests and food streets where thousands of people can eat and drink, always full of diners, showing the pride of "food capital" and forming a situation that "all the food in the world is in Guangdong"

Guangzhou has been an important town in the south of China since ancient times. After Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan, Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and customs quickly merged, and Guangzhou became the cultural center of Lingnan. There were many rivers and tributaries in ancient Guangzhou, with abundant rainfall and pleasant climate. The west, east and north are surrounded by mountains, with lush forests and grass, rich fruits in Lingnan and numerous birds and animals. South of the sea, the beach is vast, producing many salty and fresh water products and amphibians, which makes ancient Guangzhou one of the regions with the richest food resources in China. The formation of Cantonese cuisine has a long history, and a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains moved to Lingnan, which made Guangzhou's food culture deeply influenced by the Central Plains. As early as the Han and Wei Dynasties, the snake dishes, roasted goose and fish soup in Guangzhou had been affected. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Song fled south with his kitchen, and many court delicacies spread to the people in Guangzhou. After the Opium War, missionaries and businessmen from Europe and America flooded in, and thousands of businessmen gathered in Guangzhou, which provided a broad market for the development of catering industry. Cantonese cuisine absorbs the advantages of Central Plains cuisine and Western cuisine, and then absorbs the advantages of Guangdong local cuisine. Just like Guangzhou's culture, it blends ancient and modern, and Chinese and western cultures run through, forming a unique Guangzhou food culture different from other places in China, winning the reputation of "Eating in Guangzhou" and enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. Tourists come here to taste delicious food and feel this unique Lingnan food culture.

Cantonese people always like to take you to places for dinner and tea. Here, the places for eating and drinking tea are always crowded. They let you drink tea, soup, raw seafood, all kinds of shells, birds, snakes, snakes, voles, bugs, all kinds of things that you find strange. They are always discussing where to eat and drink tea at the next stop. Although the meal is not finished yet, you only have two eyeballs to support it, and occasionally you struggle to turn around.

Their staple food has always been rice. There is always steamed fish in the last course. Their signal at the end of the meal was to ask the waiter for a toothpick. Sometimes they will finish the bill and walk down the street unconsciously with a toothpick in their mouth.

If you stay in Guangzhou for a long time, you will also find that Cantonese people are very concerned about your health. They adjust your body by enthusiastically suggesting that you eat all kinds of soups, vegetables and stews. They think you have endless moisture and heat in your body. They tell you whether the stew you are eating now is warm or tonic, this dish is cold, that dish is hot, and so on.

I really don't know how to express the enthusiasm and love of Cantonese people for you without the dining table among you, the rich voices and overwhelming scenes in teahouses and restaurants.

Cantonese people haven't changed much in diet. According to historical records, "Chu is vast and sparsely populated", and Cantonese people are "rice soup fish", eating rice and drinking fish soup. The subtropical climate, coupled with the dense harbor of Shanghai Lake, makes all kinds of fruits and insects, clams and shellfish in the water easy to get, and there is no hunger at all. So, don't worry about eating. If you have a rare visitor, you can cook and pick fruits, catch fish and shrimp and touch shells at most.

Cantonese cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. It is unique with its unique dishes and charm, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

Guangdong is located in the southern coast of China, with numerous mountain plains, criss-crossing rivers and lakes, mild climate, abundant rainfall and extremely rich food sources for animals and plants. At the same time, Guangzhou, as a trading port city, has a long history, absorbing all kinds of foreign cooking materials and skills, making Cantonese cuisine more and more perfect. In addition, overseas Chinese sent back the cooking skills of Europe, America and Southeast Asia to their hometown, which enriched the contents of Cantonese cuisine recipes and left a distinct trace of Western cooking in Cantonese cuisine.

Guangdong cuisine has a long history, with Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang as the main three local cuisines. As early as 2,000 years ago, the book Huai Nan Zi in the Western Han Dynasty recorded that "the Yue people think snakes are the best food", and the Southern Song people also exaggeratedly described that Cantonese people "never get tired of eating them, regardless of birds, animals, insects and snakes". In the tomb of Zhao Hu, the second generation of Nanyue King around 122 BC, there were stoves, forks and suckling pig bones for boiling suckling pigs. 1956 held the first large-scale "Guangzhou Famous Cuisine Exhibition". There are 5457 kinds of dishes and 825 kinds of snacks, which show the essence of Guangdong food culture: Guangzhou food is rich in ingredients, good at changing, and pays attention to freshness, tenderness, smoothness and smoothness. Generally, summer and autumn strive to be light, and winter and spring emphasize strong alcohol. Especially good at stir-frying, you need to master the heat. Chaozhou cuisine is good at cooking seafood, with the most distinctive soup, exquisite knife work and pure taste. Pay attention to keep the original flavor of the main ingredients; Dongjiang cuisine has outstanding main ingredients, simple and generous, and unique local flavor. The above three dishes complement each other, forming the unique characteristics of Cantonese cuisine: first, the materials are extensive and peculiar, the materials are exquisite, and the seasonal dishes focus on color, fragrance, clarity and freshness; Second, the cooking is exquisite, and the knife operation is exquisite. Commonly used are boiling, stewing, stewing, frying, soaking, roasting, frying, soaking, rolling, stewing, burning and marinating. At the same time, there are many seasoning ingredients, such as fragrance, pine, crispness, fat, strong taste, sour, sweet, bitter and spicy.

"Eating in Guangzhou" is inseparable from drinking tea in Guangdong, which is actually a disguised form of eating. All restaurants, hotels and teahouses have morning tea, afternoon tea and evening tea. Drinking tea is associated with talking about business, listening to news and meeting friends. Drinking tea in Guangdong is inseparable from tea, snacks, porridge, noodles, noodles and some side dishes. It is worth mentioning that Chaoshan congou, which is reserved with special miniature teapot, small white porcelain cup and oolong tea, has two steps of "Guan Gong touring the city" and "Han Xin ordering soldiers" when pouring tea, and the brewed tea is fragrant, bitter and memorable. Cantonese dim sum is one of the three special cakes in China. It has a long history, many varieties, colorful, exquisite shape, novel taste and unique features.

Guangdong porridge is characterized by cooking rice and paying attention to seasoning, including slippery chicken porridge, sashimi porridge, porridge and boat porridge. Guangdong powder is Shahe powder, soft and tough. Guangdong noodles are most famous for their "lady noodles".

In a word, Cantonese cuisine combines "Kyoto flavor", "Gusu flavor" and "Yangzhou fried" and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

Cantonese cuisine is especially famous for its wide selection of ingredients. Birds and beasts, delicacies, wild vegetables and flowers are all forbidden in Cantonese cuisine. Snakes, rats, birds, insects, dogs and cats are jaw-dropping ingredients in other cuisines, but they are regarded as table treasures. For example, mainlanders dare not eat snakes. For example, there is an ancient idiom called "snake shadow reflects the mirror", and some people even mistakenly think that snake shadow will scare people out of illness, let alone eat it. In Cantonese cuisine, snakes are the best choice. Cantonese people have a long history of eating snakes, but they are the best choice in Cantonese cuisine. There is a song about eating snakes in Biography of Foreign Bodies in South Vietnam: "Snakes are long and long, and they are a guest banquet." Today, there are nearly 50 kinds of snake gall in Guangdong, and there are many restaurants with snakes as their basic dishes. Many foreigners and foreigners come to Guangdong to enjoy tasting snake gizzards.

In fact, the omnivorous character of Cantonese people is also a manifestation of open-minded diet. As the saying goes, one side of the soil and water support one side of the people, and different geographical environments have created different regional personalities. Guangdong is the only place for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, forming an open thinking structure of Cantonese people. At the same time, because it is located in the frontier, the control of successive dynasties is weaker than that of the mainland, and it is less influenced by orthodox feudal thoughts. The influence of the traditional culture of the Central Plains on it is weakening, which leads to greater freedom and tolerance.

Learn from others' strengths and be practical and willing to work.

Cantonese cuisine was formed in Qin and Han Dynasties. Based on the local food culture, it absorbs the essence of Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and Sichuan cuisines and the cooking techniques of western food. For example, the soaking, roasting and Sichuan cuisine in Cantonese cuisine are all transplanted from the explosion, roasting and frying in the north, and other methods are borrowed from western food, gradually forming a unique southern flavor.

All similar cultures can explore this relationship from historical contact. In the comparison of the same things in the two places, the greater the qualitative similarity, the more obvious the mutual spread. The openness of Guangdong culture is bound to be all-inclusive, which makes the food culture all-inclusive, and unconsciously promotes the development of food customs.

While learning from others, Guangdong food customs can gradually abandon some bad habits in foreign food and form a non-luxurious and practical style. Cantonese people pay attention to a small but refined diet. Even if they entertain guests, they will never be extravagant. They take the principle of eating well and eating well, which is in sharp contrast with some places in the north. The extravagance and waste of northerners is due to the formality of etiquette, although it has its generous and lovely side, but it should be noted that the red tape in diet is unacceptable in modern society. Of course, this does not mean that Cantonese people don't pay attention to manners. On the contrary, Cantonese people pay great attention to politeness when they treat guests, so that guests can come on impulse and have a good time. That kind of extravagance and waste that is divorced from reality is unwilling to be done by pragmatic Cantonese people.

The pragmatic spirit of Guangdong people's current diet is the inevitable result of the development of modern society. Cantonese people live up to their reputation and pay attention to reality. The realistic spirit in Confucian culture has little influence on Guangdong. On the contrary, they are influenced by the realistic attitude of westerners. This influence has formed that Cantonese people can learn from each other's strong points in diet, but at the same time keep a pragmatic attitude.

Elaborate production, pursuit of enjoyment

The production of a delicious dish depends on the orderly cooperation of all links. Cantonese cuisine has very strict requirements in ingredients, knives, cooking time, cooking time, cooking, wrapping, utensils, serving methods and many other aspects. If you cook fish, you should kill it before cooking it, so as to keep the fish delicious; Another example is its platter making, so we must pay attention to the choice of ingredients in order to achieve the effect of beautiful shape and rich taste. A good platter is not only a dish of delicacies, but also a work of art, which is pleasing to the eye and appetizing.

Nothing is more famous than chicken gizzards in Cantonese cuisine. There are hundreds of kinds of chicken dishes, which allow guests to taste dozens of kinds of chicken dishes without repeating them. Almost every famous restaurant has its own signature chicken, such as Wenchang chicken in Guangzhou restaurant, carved chicken in Beiyuan restaurant, bamboo queen chicken in Foshan, white-cut chicken in Qingyuan and so on. Such as white-cut chicken, you must choose a hen or a capon, and Qingyuan Sanhuang chicken is the best. The most important thing in the production is the heat, which is suitable for people who have just cooked and cut it. If they are overcooked, the meat will get old and the characteristics of the boiled chicken will be lost.

Exquisite food preparation is inseparable from the Cantonese cuisine culture which emphasizes personal value and pursues enjoyment. Pleasure is not a one-sided pursuit of eating, drinking and having fun. It belongs to a moral category and corresponds to asceticism. Abstinence rejects worldly wealth and enjoyment, and suppresses desire to achieve some social goal or moral self-improvement. From the perspective of moral types, Guangdong culture does not belong to asceticism, but shows a hedonistic tendency, full of secular enjoyment of human nature and emotional appeal, manifested in the pursuit of comfort, happiness and a better life, with the aim of working hard and enjoying it to the fullest. The word "enjoyment" has always been given a derogatory meaning in China culture, and it is always associated with getting something for nothing. It is considered that enjoyment is a bourgeois way of life, and it seems that only the bourgeoisie is entitled to enjoy it. In fact, enjoyment is a very advanced lifestyle of human beings and an inevitable cultural choice for the development of human civilization to a certain extent.

Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong's dietary customs have developed to a higher level, which has had a strong impact on traditional values, and the traditional Confucian concepts of "a gentleman eats when he is poor" and "contentment is always happy" have been seriously challenged. Confucianism regards integrity as the only criterion to measure personality, and guarding poverty as a symbol of upholding integrity. The essence of this idea is to limit human beings to the lowest living standard. In the tide of reform, Guangdong people realized that it is desirable not to be extravagant, but they can't judge their behavior by poverty, which enables them to open their hearts and bravely pursue the continuous improvement of their living standards.

Dietary custom is an important cultural phenomenon. Food not only contains organic substances that can sustain human life, but also needs to be labeled with cultural consent for each food and its consumption mode. Similarly, Guangdong people's choice of diet is also the result of the long-term subtle influence of their culture. The reform and innovation of food can be ever-changing, but it must be based on culture in order to be accepted and liked by people.