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The people of the girl in the northeast of Guangzhou depend on the sky for their meals.
I am a native girl in Harbin, although I look more like a southerner in both my thin figure and accent. Thanks to the golden age of Hong Kong's audio-visual industry in 1980s and 1990s, as a post-90s generation who grew up watching TVB and listening to Cantonese songs, I became interested in Cantonese and Cantonese culture, which later became an important factor for me to come to Guangzhou.

From college to now, I have been in Guangzhou five or six times, studying, traveling, visiting friends and even changing planes. I have visited this city for various purposes, but this time I decided to live here for a while, so I need to understand this city from a completely different angle.

As the saying goes, "Food is the most important thing for the people" and "Food is in Guangzhou". As the beginning of this series, let's talk about the most famous food culture in Guangzhou.

Eating habits are a reflection of regional character.

As a Northeastern living in Guangdong, I find it interesting to compare the eating habits of the north and the south. It is not only the sweet and salty dispute between bean curd and zongzi, but also the different regional characteristics are reflected in the details.

For example, in the use of tableware, Guangzhou people will first wash the dishes with tea, then use bowls to hold food, and use plates to hold garbage such as bones and shells; In the north, we don't have the habit of drinking tea before meals. People who love cleanliness usually wipe the tableware with paper towels, and then mainly use plates to hold food, and use bowls to hold rice or soup alone.

For another example, Cantonese people are often nicknamed "eat everything", especially in the hot and humid south. It stands to reason that they should like to eat raw and cold food, but the fact is just the opposite. Take cucumber as an example. In the north, cucumbers can be shredded to make cold dishes, cut into pieces to make tiger dishes, or cut into strips of dipping sauce. I even often wash the whole cucumber and eat it directly like fruit. In short, it is directly eaten raw. In Guangdong's boyfriend's house, they will fry cucumbers, or at least scald them with hot water, because they think there may be parasites in raw cucumbers that are unsanitary to eat raw.

In terms of food types, Guangdong can't live without the old fire soup, and the stew at home began to cook at least a few hours ago; And the soup I made was ridiculed by my boyfriend as "pot washing water". Cantonese people like to drink porridge, whether it's seafood or meat. In short, all kinds of ingredients are cooked together in rice porridge, and the taste is mainly salty; Northeasters also often cook porridge, represented by sweet eight-treasure porridge. The ingredients are mainly whole grains, and red bean porridge and mung bean porridge are desserts in Guangdong.

In terms of taste, Cantonese people are light and pay attention to health, so in addition to bitter herbal tea, they often add herbs when cooking, and there are many slightly bitter fire-removing soups; Northeasters are famous for their big mouths. Apart from salty food, they generally like to eat spicy and sour food, but seldom eat "bitter" food.

In terms of weight and form, Guangzhou's dishes are all side dishes. No matter snacks or dishes, the weight is small but exquisite, and the control of cooking quantity at home is also very accurate. Every meal is full and there is nothing left. The northern part of China is dominated by large dishes, which are not only complicated to cook, but also bulky, and often need to be packaged after eating. Cooking at home is often too much, and eventually it becomes an overnight meal.

In fact, these completely different eating habits reflect the personality characteristics of people in the North and South. Guangdong people pay more attention to self-discipline, such as a small family in the boudoir, a gentle and lovely daughter; Northeasters are generous and chivalrous.

Morning tea is actually not early.

Speaking of Guangzhou's food culture, "morning tea" is a mountain that can't be bypassed. It stands in the heart of everyone in Guangzhou and is their proudest way of life.

From 6 am to 2 pm, the eight-hour time span can be regarded as morning tea time. In front of morning tea, brunch, afternoon tea and midnight snack are all defeated.

Unlike Shanghainese, who like to sit alone in a coffee shop and enjoy the peace, Guangzhou people's morning tea is always very lively. A typical Guangdong morning tea usually goes to a big restaurant, where at least a whole floor is filled with round tables, just like a traditional wedding banquet. If it's a family, it's a whole table. If it's three or two people, it needs to be combined with other guests. Cantonese people pay attention to meaning, which may explain why all morning tea restaurants use big round tables instead of small square tables.

There is a fixed charge for morning tea in Guangzhou called teahouse, which is charged per head. Generally, 35 yuan is alone in the restaurant, and a very high-end place may be around 15 yuan. Pay attention to the utensils when drinking tea. People in Guangzhou never use glasses, but drink tea in special small porcelain cups. Since the container is small, the tea will naturally be finished soon, and Guangzhou people will never have empty cups. Just take a sip of the tea in the small porcelain cup and it will be replenished for you. After adding tea, I usually take a sip as a polite response immediately, but after drinking, I will be added with tea, so after dinner, the tea fee is finally in vain.

There are many kinds of snacks in Guangzhou. There are hundreds of them on the morning tea menu in every restaurant, and each restaurant is different. It really guarantees 365 days a year. In addition to the common soy sauce spareribs, steamed chicken feet, rice rolls, rice rolls skin made of black sesame seeds, and various snacks with crispy skin and thick meat, it has also refreshed my diet view again and again. Even chicken feet are a kind of food. There are many ways to do it. The chicken feet soaked in Shanxi mature vinegar are very tight and crisp. The meat of braised chicken feet has been boneless, and it melts as soon as it is put into the mouth; Steamed chicken feet are time-consuming to make, and need to be fried first and then steamed. They are soft, but very elastic.

Having said so much about Guangzhou cuisine in my eyes, let me finally talk about how Guangzhou people view their own cuisine. Remember to invite your elders and boyfriends to have morning tea in Guangzhou. One of his aunts pulled me and asked me where I came from. I said I just got back from Shanghai and went to Guangzhou to develop. At this time, the waiter began to serve, and my uncle and aunt said that the food in Shanghai was too sweet. If you want to eat in Guangzhou, we are the capital of food. She said she would help me eat more. I didn't mean to stir up regional disputes at all. I just wanted to show that Guangzhou people have a high sense of identity with their own food culture and will think that they are the well-deserved "boss" in the food industry.

Of course, this sense of identity is not only manifested in food, but also in their recognition of Lingnan culture and lifestyle. If you want to know more about Guangzhou in the eyes of Northeast girls, please click on the blue word above and pay attention to "Miss Holiday's Fantasy Journey".