Yancheng Welcome Tea | Sit quietly and listen to the wind and snow, and the aroma of tea welcomes guests home

Since the ancient road "welcome guests to tea" as a welcome tea

It is the first tea to be served to guests who come from afar

Indicates a welcome to the guests

It is respectful and polite to guests

Polite and gentle

The guests came and the tea was served

Take a small sip and quench your thirst

"Seven things to open the door every day, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea". Tea has been used as a necessity in people's lives for a long time, and a set of unique customs has gradually been formed - tea customs.

Tea, in the past, in the lives of the people, at least in our Yancheng is different from today's sense of "tea".

The tea ceremony in Yancheng is to connect "drinking" and "eating". In Yancheng, the soup that is boiled, and everything that can put sugar instead of salt, is called tea.

Stepping into Water Street, the aroma of a bowl of welcome tea or the faint greetings of water street people can make the trivial thoughts in your heart seem like vulgar dust, swept away.

Brown rice tea

Brown rice tea is a household name in Yancheng in the 90s, and one of the main simple meals in the countryside for easy farming. Brown rice tea is made from stir-fried brown rice with a unique fragrance. A cup of clear brown rice tea, take a sip, healthy and comfortable. The aroma of fried rice is mixed with the taste of sugar water, and it is warm and fragrant to drink.

Steamed bun tea

In the past, steamed bun tea, also known as confinement tea, was the main diet for women to confinement in the 90s. The moment the "crackling" sound, breaking the steamed buns, sprinkling sugar, and pouring boiling water, the fragrance spreads. Steamed bun tea does not have the grease of dry steamed buns, which adds to the richness of the steamed bun tea soup, which can both satisfy the stomach and quench thirst.

Fruit tea

There are two kinds of fruit tea, one is directly soaked with sugar water, and the other is paired with Funing cake, allowing guests to drink sweet tea while eating fruit and cake. A steaming bowl of fruit tea, tea and fruit complement each other, let the fruit simmer in boiling water for a while, and then put a handful of sugar, instantly wafting out a burst of sweet taste.

Scorch chips

Crumbs are a simple and fast delicacy specially made during the busy season of farming in order not to affect farming, and are usually enjoyed in the morning and afternoon. Stir-fried noodles made of boiling water and sugar oil, put sugar in, stir well with chopsticks, its taste is caramelized and sweet, emitting a strong wheat aroma, add some white sugar, soft and delicious, both thirst quenching, but also full of hunger.

Egg stammer

Egg stubs are also one of the simple teas that rural people in old Yancheng receive friends and relatives. Egg crapples are actually poached poached eggs, because the eggs that come out of this are not as complete as boiled eggs, but flattened. Usually paired with brown rice tea, put a little sugar in a bowl, the fragrance is fragrant.

Round tea

The traditional round tea is made of glutinous rice flour as raw material, which is sweet and refreshing, rich in nutrition, and has the function of strengthening bones and blood. Dipped in a little sugar in the mouth, soft and sticky and sweet, swallowed into the stomach and let people taste for a long time. Every year on the first day of the Chinese New Year, each family gets up to let go of firecrackers, and eats round tea, symbolizing the family's new year's family reunion, a complete life, and all the best.

Come to Water Street and drink a bowl of welcome tea

Lips and teeth are fragrant and refreshing

Warm the body and warm the heart, warm up the flow of years