Diet, as its name implies, is drinking and eating. Speaking of "drinking" in Guangdong, we can't help but talk about tea. Cantonese people have always loved tea. In some areas, Cantonese people even regard tea as important as rice. Tea is a good thing, and its benefits to human body are beyond words. Cantonese people love to drink tea. While enjoying the health benefits brought by tea, they also enjoy "Kung Fu Tea". Kung fu tea is not the name of a certain kind of tea, but a form of drinking tea. After a certain process of careful brewing, you get a small pot of fragrant tea. Pour the tea slowly into the ceramic teacup, pick up the teacup, carefully look at the clear brown in the cup, smell the delicate fragrance coming from the cup, take a sip and let the sweetness slowly infiltrate your throat. A glass of wine will refresh you. Perhaps this is the essence of Cantonese tea drinking.
Cantonese love tea, especially morning tea. In Guangdong, you will find restaurants and teahouses, large and small, which are already packed in the morning. The custom of drinking morning tea in Guangdong can be traced back to the Republic of China and even the Qing Dynasty. Today, there is still a saying among the people in Guangdong: a pot of tea in the morning keeps the doctor away. This is enough to show that Cantonese people attach importance to the custom of drinking morning tea. Get up early in the morning, find a good place in the teahouse, make a pot of good tea, order some Cantonese snacks, invite some old friends to enjoy tea and catch up with the past to kill their leisure time. Isn't this a great beauty of life?
"People eat for the sky." The same is true of Cantonese people. In terms of "food", there are Cantonese dishes. Cantonese cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. Cantonese cuisine has a wide range of materials and varieties, which are almost dazzling, flying in the sky, running on the ground and swimming in water. The practice of Cantonese cuisine is very particular. The selection of main ingredients is strict, the dosage of ingredients is fine, and the taste of ingredients should not be too heavy. Attention should be paid to preserving the original flavor of food. Cantonese cuisine pays attention to quality and taste, which is clear but fresh, light and beautiful. Such as Kirin bass, oyster chicken feet, Dongjiang brine chicken, etc. They are all famous Cantonese dishes. They pursue color, fragrance, taste and shape, not surprisingly salty as Anhui cuisine, rough workmanship as green onions and garlic as Shandong cuisine, heavy taste as Sichuan cuisine, sweet and greasy as Zhejiang cuisine, and no taste buds as Hunan cuisine. Cantonese cuisine is excellent in taste and food modeling, so it can stand out among the eight outstanding cuisines and become the representative cuisines of China in the world, enjoying a world-renowned reputation.
Guangdong's diet is natural and refreshing, with a light taste. Some people compare Guangdong's eating habits to a son who doesn't eat human fireworks. The reason for this metaphor is that in this era of seasoning flooding, Cantonese cuisine can still persist in retaining itself and returning to its true colors. We can't deny that Guangdong's food culture is quite excellent. In my opinion, Guangdong's excellent food culture should be the pride of every Cantonese!
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