"Water in the morning, water in the evening." In fact, this sentence is not only suitable for Yangzhou, but also for cities such as Taizhou and Dongtai north of the Yangtze River.
Speaking of Yangzhou, I have to say morning tea.
In fact, Taizhou morning tea and Yangzhou morning tea are in the same vein. But for many people, Yangzhou morning tea is not only a taste, but also a culture.
Founded in 1885, Yangzhou Fuchun Tea Society, the prestigious century-old Yechun Tea Society, the Qianlong Emperor came to Visit Yangzhou four times when he was six times, and gave it the "Fun Garden" and so on.
These local premier and established tea houses not only have exquisite dishes and elegant environments, but also carry the food memories of generations of Yangzhou people.
Yangzhou's morning tea culture began to flourish during the Ming and Qing dynasties, thanks to the prosperity of the salt industry here at that time, countless people interspersed here, here gathered people from the south to the north, and the cuisine from all over the world was gathered here.
In Yangzhou, the place where morning tea is eaten is called the tea house. Eat Yangzhou morning tea, don't rush to hurry, take your time, in order to taste the taste.
But if you ask the locals in Yangzhou, they will say, we generally don't go to Fun Garden, Fuchun, Yechun, these shops are tourists.
In Yangzhou City, there are many places to eat morning tea, and every morning, when you enter an old street, you will encounter one or two lively tea houses, most of which are nearby permanent residents.
Old faces, old places, three things: a plate of hot dried silk, two steaming buns, and a cup of ordinary green tea.
For tourists, since the mille-feuille oil cake is a representative variety of Yangzhou morning tea, and it is called "Yangzhou Double Absolute" together with jade roasted wheat, it is a must to try.
Crab yellow soup bun is not too recommended to eat, one is not yet the season to eat crab, crab yellow is frozen, and second, most of them will feel fishy, many people can not accept.
Several times I went to Fun Garden for morning tea, and the queues were very serious every day, and I needed to make an appointment in advance.
But you will also be amazed, this salted duck egg, actually each is a double yolk egg? This small river shrimp is like a flower.
Yangzhou's Yechun Tea House has also eaten several, and the most recommended is the Royal Horse Head Shop. Yechun Royal Horse Head Store, located on the site of Yechun Garden, one of the eight famous gardens in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, has been more than 300 years.
There is an old saying in Yangzhou: "Fuchun's buns, Yechun's dry silk, Republican spring dumplings".
In addition to the large boiled dried silk that appeared in "China on the Tip of the Tongue", steamed dumplings are also the unique work of Yechun Tea Society. Steamed dumplings with bamboo shoots are not only large, but also have thin skin and thick soup.
Mille-feuille oil cake, pine seed roasted wheat, Yechun stewed meat, three-ding bun, jade roasted sale, boiled dried silk, steamed dumplings, lion's head, tofu brain, vegetable buns, meat buns, fried shrimp, bean paste buns, shiitake mushroom vegetable buns, crab yellow soup buns, scalded dried silk, tofu skin buns, yechun steamed dumplings, green Poplar spring, five ding buns.....
If you want to eat it all at once, it's almost impossible.
This is the morning tea of Yangzhou, and it is more and more expensive for ordinary people to eat. Fun Garden morning tea, box from 128 yuan / person, Yechun morning tea, box from 158 yuan / person. Ten friends had a morning tea and spent 1580 yuan.
Later, I went to Taizhou and had morning tea at the Taizhou Huibin Building.
You will find that if you only shoot morning tea and do not shoot the environment, send a circle, your friends must think that you are in Yangzhou. In fact, Taizhou is an hour's drive from Yangzhou.
Yangzhou and Taizhou were one more than a decade ago, and in history, Taizhou was a city separated from Yangzhou.
Located at No. 15 Gulou North Road, Taizhou Huibin Building was recommended by a local friend in Taizhou to go. It opens at 6:30 a.m., there is a queue at the door at 6:00 a.m., there is no morning tea after 9:30 a.m., and lunch is made after 11:00 a.m.
I arrived at 7:30 and thankfully lined up not long ago. By eight o'clock the long lines began.
After taking a look, the people who eat here are basically locals, and there are not many tourists. The whole restaurant was packed.
The waiters are older, speaking the local dialect, and sometimes I don't understand it after saying it several times.
The dim sum in huibin building is not like Yangzhou morning tea, which is one by one. But it is similar to Guangzhou morning tea, one is 3, and the small cage is served.
Taizhou morning tea, traditionally summarized as "one tea three points and one side".
A tea is a cup of tea and a hot dry silk, a hot dry silk is called a tea head; three points is to say three kinds of Taizhou's famous breakfast, that is, buns, steamed dumplings, roasted and sold; one side is fish soup noodles.
Tea is free, this table ate 54 yuan, enough for 2 people to eat.
In general, compared with Taizhou, Yangzhou's morning tea category is more abundant, the method is more exquisite, and it is more high-end. But Taizhou morning tea is relatively more affordable and closer to people's lives.
What do you think?