I believe that everyone is already familiar with "food in Guangzhou", even in the late 1970s after the turmoil, walking on the streets of Guangzhou will still be surprised by the number of restaurants. (North Garden Restaurant)
Since ancient times in Guangzhou, there has been a saying of "five steps on the first floor, ten steps and one cabinet", which describes the many restaurants in Guangzhou, which is also the characteristics of Guangzhou. (Tao Tao Ju)
At that time, there were more than 500 restaurants in Guangzhou, and this did not include a larger number of roadside stalls, of which more than 20 were designated restaurants that were allowed to receive foreign guests at that time. (Street Stalls)
Among them are the famous Panxi Restaurant, North Garden Restaurant, South Garden Restaurant, Datong Restaurant, Da Sanyuan Restaurant and so on. (Wild game fragrant hotel, famous for mountain rare game)
Food in Guangzhou, there is also a meaning that Guangzhou four-legged in addition to the stool table are eaten, wings in addition to the plane are eaten, swimming in the water except for the submarine are eaten. (Huifu Meat Market, the largest market in China at the time.) At that time, the price of vegetables and meat here has not changed since 1964)
Guangzhou's food culture has a long history and a wide variety. For example, the snake eating that is often mentioned by people is recorded in the Han Dynasty "Huainan Zi" as early as 200 BC.
Guangzhou people have the habit of drinking morning tea, every morning three or five old friends in the frequent restaurant together at a table, while eating and chatting, enjoy the fun of drinking morning tea for a day. (The North Garden Restaurant was drinking morning tea at that time, and the price of a tea plus two or three snacks was hex-dime)
At that time, there were thousands of types of dim sum in Guangzhou, and chefs were constantly innovating. Guangzhou dim sum can be said to be the place where all kinds of famous points from ancient times to the present are gathered.
Panxi Restaurant's Horseshoe Cake, Guangzhou Restaurant's Crab Yellow Dumplings, Beiyuan Restaurant's Puff pastry egg tarts, etc. are all must-eat snacks for diners.
At that time, even in the street street stalls, fresh shrimp wonton noodles, pork hand noodles, lard glutinous rice chicken, crispy chicken cakes, osmanthus white sugar London cake, cotton cakes and so on are the favorite snacks of Guangzhou people.
At that time, in addition to the above-mentioned restaurants in Guangzhou, the Muslim Hotel, the Beijing Hotel, the North China Hotel, the Taipingguan Restaurant, the Dagong Restaurant, the Lianxiang Restaurant, and the Tao Tao Ju were all equally famous.
At that time, the price of high-grade pork was 2.44 yuan / catty