Morning tea in Guangdong is not only a refreshment, but also a gentle and calm feeling.

Guangdong is located in Lingnan area, and its cultural customs have distinct Lingnan characteristics. Morning tea is a classic Lingnan custom. When it comes to Cantonese cuisine, many people's first reaction is morning tea, but not many people know it specifically, especially northerners. Many northerners think that the morning tea culture in Guangdong is like soaking in a teahouse, just sitting on the coffee table and drinking tea slowly. Actually, morning tea is not that simple. In addition to drinking tea, snacks used to accompany tea are also extremely rich.

Cantonese call drinking morning tea "sighing tea", which means enjoying it, so we can also see that it takes a lot of time to enjoy a cup of morning tea. If you are a student or an office worker who is in a hurry to go to school or work, you may not be able to enjoy morning tea on weekdays. Only on holidays can you go to the teahouse to enjoy yourself. Many retired people regard drinking morning tea as a pastime. As soon as the teahouse opened, they went there and didn't leave until it closed. The leisure time in the morning is spent in morning tea.

Drinking morning tea is not only a breakfast, but also a social way for Cantonese people. You can accompany a family to the teahouse, talk about things around you, talk about housework and enjoy family happiness; You can also make an appointment with three or five friends, order more tea, chat and have tea chat; Even if you are talking about business with customers, going to the teahouse is a means to enhance your feelings; There are many young couples, and love can also be carried out in teahouses. Morning tea has long been an indispensable part of Cantonese life.

There are many kinds of teahouses. There are luxurious, quaint and elegant high-end luxury tea houses; There are also three or five stools, affordable street teahouses, high-end, complex and simple, and there is always one that suits your appetite and preferences. People with slightly embarrassed pockets can choose ordinary "two cups", and wealthy businessmen can even gargle with shark fins, so morning tea is suitable for people from all walks of life, as long as they are calm.

There are many kinds of tea soups for morning tea, including green tea, white tea, black tea, Pu 'er tea, Tieguanyin tea, Dahongpao tea, etc., as well as substitute teas such as chrysanthemum tea and rose tea, which can also be mixed for drinking. Green tea is fresh and refreshing, and black tea is warm and fragrant, each with its own characteristics. The morning tea in Guangdong is mainly black tea, not only because its taste is better than other teas, but also because of its thick taste, slightly bitter smell and deep red color, which can be well matched with the tea with tea.

Compared with tea, the types of refreshments are more diverse. The most classic refreshments are Guangdong people's favorite water chestnut cake and glutinous rice chicken. These two kinds of food have already appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and they are the oldest refreshments. Even though there are many new refreshments, Cantonese people love them. The raw material of horseshoe cake is sweet potato powder or horseshoe powder, which is blended with sugar water. It tastes sweet and soft, tough and smooth.

Glutinous rice chicken is not a sweet food like water chestnut cake, but a salty food very similar to zongzi. Chicken, ribs, barbecued pork, salted egg yolk, mushrooms and other ingredients are put into glutinous rice, wrapped in lotus leaves and steamed in a pot. Glutinous rice not only contains all kinds of aroma of ingredients, but also absorbs the aroma of lotus leaves, which makes the taste very rich. The meat in the glutinous rice is completely soft and rotten, and the aroma is fragrant, and it melts at the entrance.

Besides these two kinds, there are too many morning teas in Guangdong, such as rice rolls, Shaoshao, shrimp dumplings, barbecued pork buns, cream steamed buns, quicksand steamed buns, spareribs and chicken feet, as well as egg tarts, cakes, pineapple cake and durian cakes. These refreshments are very delicious when eaten alone, and with tea, there is a chemical reaction, which further sublimates the taste and taste.

Morning tea is not only all kinds of tea and refreshments, but also the calmness of Cantonese people when they lament morning tea. No matter how busy and stressed you are, don't be impatient when enjoying morning tea. Enjoy a happy morning tea time every minute, which is also the charm of Guangdong morning tea culture.