The morning tea culture
Feb 02nd 2010 19:01
I am a native of Guangzhou, locally born and bred. In here, morning tea culture has been being know by all parts of the country. Most people in Guangzhou like having morning tea, especially the elderly. Normally, we should get up early because of that there are so many people taking morning tea here that fairly hard to find a table. In spite of this, people are still crazy on morning tea. Apart from green tea or black tea, the restaurant usually prepare variety of refreshments and dimsum for guests. For example, there are fengzhua、shaomai、Chinese gold cake、Chinese roasted pork bun、rice noodle roll、shrimp dumpling、various congee and so on. Actually we like the way having morning tea with family or friends in our holidays. We often chat or read newspaper during morning tea, thus we will feel noisy and busy not that silence when we are in Cantonese restaurant, but this is the particular and most popular recreation in Canton. We usually say that ‘Yi Zhong Liang Jin’, or called ‘Dim Sum Depot’, it means a pot of tea and two dishes of dimsum. How casual!
In the past, all restaurants just serve morning tea. However, in recent years they also serve afternoon tea, even evening tea. You can take your tea from morning till evening if you want to, but first you should know which place provide the service. Hehe……..
The pictures above were all taken by me at Taotaojv restaurant of Guangzhou.
Chinese Version:
早茶文化
我是一名土生土长的广州人。在广州，这里的早茶文化早已全国闻名。这里的人们都喜欢喝早茶，特别是老公公老婆婆。一般喝早茶都需要很早起床，因为茶楼是非常多人光顾的，位子很难找。除了典型的喝茶叶茶外，早茶还可以尝到各种各样的点心小吃，品种非常的丰富。例如有凤瓜、拉肠、黄金糕、叉烧包、烧卖，虾饺，各种粥等等。其实，喝早茶主要是大家聚在一起拉拉家常或看看报纸等，环境相对是比较吵杂的，并不会非常的安静，但这是广州本地人独有的非常喜爱的生活方式。通常说的“一盅两件”，就是指一壶茶两份小点心消磨一早上，非常休闲。
以前都只是喝早茶，现在已经发展成下午茶还有晚茶了，所以只要找准地方，你完全可以从一大早喝到晚上，哈哈。
上边是我上次去陶陶居喝茶的照片。
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I am a native of Guangzhou, locally born and grown bred.
In here, morning tea culture has been being know known by all parts of the country.
In spite of this, people are still crazy on fond of morning tea.
Apart from green tea or black tea, the restaurant usually prepare variety of refreshments snacks and dimsum for guests.
We often chat or read newspaper during morning tea, thus we will feel noisy and busy, not that silence when we are in Cantonese restaurant, but this is the particular and most popular recreation in Canton.
However, in recent years they also serve afternoon tea, and even evening tea.
Morning tea culture or The morning tea culture of China
My English diaries are all written in Chinese first and then translated into English.
I am a native of Guangzhou, locally born and bred raised.
Morning tea culture is known all over the country. (By country, do you mean China or do you mean the countryside around Guangzhou? You could say, "Guangzhou's morning tea culture is known all over the country).
Most people in Guangzhou, especially the elderly, like to have morning tea. (I think "having" is also correct, but it sounds better to me to say "like to have")
Normally, we must get up early because so many people take morning tea here that it is fairly hard to find a table.
Despite this, people are still crazy about morning tea.
Apart from green tea or black tea, the restaurants usually prepare a variety of refreshments and dimsum for the guests.
Actually, we like having morning tea with family or friends during our holidays.
We usually say that ‘Yi Zhong Liang Jin’, or ‘Dim Sum Depot’, means a pot of tea and two dishes of dimsum.
In the past, restaurants just served morning tea.
You can take your tea from morning till evening if you want to, but first you should know which place provides the service.
The pictures above were all taken by me at the Taotaojv restaurant in Guangzhou.