Guangzhou has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate. At the same time, Guangzhou people love to eat, sometimes eating too much fried things will inevitably get angry, so drinking herbal tea has become a perennial habit of Guangzhou people. Every summer, herbal tea is an essential drink for Guangzhou people.
Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, such as Wang Laoji Herbal Tea, Xiasang Chrysanthemum Tea, Gong Herbal Tea, 24 Herbal Tea, Sanhutang Herbal Tea, Herbal Tea, Cucurbit Tea, Healthy Herbal Tea, Gold and Silver Chrysanthemum Tea and Bitter Melon Herbal Tea. In addition, people in Guangzhou often use turtle paste soup, sashimi soup, carrots and bamboo cane water as delicious herbal tea.
There are three main forms of selling herbal tea. First, pharmacies sell large and small packages or dried products for making herbal tea, which customers fry or take with boiling water after buying. The second category is herbal tea shops. In addition to selling dry tea bags, for the convenience of the masses, they also set up four shops on thoroughfare avenue to sell ready-made herbal tea that has been cooked for passers-by and neighbors to drink. The third category is herbal tea stalls, mostly individual stalls. Generally, herbal tea bags are bought from pharmacies, and some herbs are made by themselves. After processing and frying, they are sold in porcelain bowls or water cups. ? Guangdong herbal tea, the main ingredients are Prunella vulgaris, winter mulberry leaves, wild chrysanthemum, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, disintegrating pills, Prunus mume, plantain, Hedyotis diffusa, nutmeg, honeysuckle, perilla frutescens, mint, rose, lobelia chinensis and so on. There are also many kinds of herbal tea advertised as "eighteen flavors of herbal tea" or "twenty-four flavors of herbal tea", but in fact most of them are similar.