With passage of time, morning tea become a custom that provides Guangdong's diverse population, rich and poor, young and old, and men and women with a common cultural identity: Cantonese. And in the morning tea, in addition to having tea, they also have all kinds of dishes and dim sum, including shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, lobag gow, maatai gow, phoenix talons, steamed meatballs, spare ribs, lotus leaf rice, congee, chien chang go, char siu sou, taro dumpling, egg tart and so on. Drinking tea is a mode of social exchange, which is an important and key factor for the long history of prosperous teahouses in Guangzhou through the centuries.
Every morning, the Cantonese come to morning tea for different reasons. The real tea-drinkers, for instance, prefer to kill time with one pot of fragrant hot tea and two plates of snacks. Businessmen came here in the old days to exchange information as well as to enjoy life a little bit over a cup of tea with some snacks. But thousands of ordinary urbanites would rush to the teahouse in the early morning for a moment of relaxation before starting their daily routine work.
With time passing by, morning tea has prospered ever since it appeared in Guangzhou. Nowadays, it has become an inseparable part of the local life, and life here starts with morning tea for many Guangzhou urbanites.
Editor: Xu Xinlei
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