It may be caused by the living habits that have been passed down, but I think it may be a difference in the concept of life.
First of all, Lingnan's morning tea/night tea is by no means "desperate to eat", but very leisurely eating, which is a process of extreme enjoyment. For example, the two old men in the picture below, it seems that they should be retired, they are about eight o'clock to the restaurant, comfortably drinking, chatting, eating, sitting until 10 o'clock, from the cloth bag in their hands, I guess they may go to the market next to buy.
Of course, most office workers don't have such a generous time to enjoy, so, just as I have seen in Guangzhou, most of the customers are elderly. On Saturdays and Sundays, there will be more customers of all ages.
Second, the people there seem to pay more attention to the quality of life than the northerners. Whether it is decoration or cuisine, this can be reflected. Take drinking morning tea, most of them are mainly "drinking" and "chatting", and the proportion of "eating" is not large.
Every time we drink morning tea in Guangzhou, our couple will sigh - how good it is that we also have this environment, the elderly get together, spend most of the happy morning, spend not much money, it is better than drinking bowls of soy milk and eating fritters.
In fact, Beijing also has morning tea - the earliest in the west side of the front door there is a "Tiangong Restaurant", operating a very authentic Cantonese morning tea, but disappeared after a few years, now can eat refreshments, one is the Tang Palace seafood boat, the other is Jindingxuan, unfortunately the price is much more expensive than Guangzhou, this is not counted, the latter probably since last year, even tea is gone.
According to my observation, the per capita consumption of morning tea in Guangzhou is not high, and other surrounding cities, including Wuzhou, Guangxi, are cheaper. From the customer's point of view, this is a low-cost but enjoyable process; from the perspective of the merchant, although it has not been able to make more profits from refreshments, it has gained a good reputation and can attract more customers for the subsequent lunch and dinner.
According to personal feelings, among the major cities in China, Guangzhou is probably the closest to the people and the most down-to-earth. I also like Shanghai very much, but in terms of grounding gas, Guangzhou is more advanced. As for my hometown of Beijing, there is no comparison with these two places.
Mention the famous breakfasts all over the country, the bean juice and scorched circle in Beijing; the pancake fruit in Tianjin; the peppery soup in Henan; the beef noodles in Lanzhou, Gansu; the morning wine in Anhui; the sheep soup with oil cake in Shandong, and so on. It can be said that every place has a local favorite breakfast, but to say that these breakfasts are the most abundant, the most expensive is the morning tea in Guangzhou, it can be said that in the breakfast all over the country, Guangzhou's morning tea is the top match.
I remember in the early 90s, our only five-star hotel in the northern city opened, when the Cantonese restaurant had Cantonese morning tea, in the eyes of ordinary people at that time, going to the Cantonese restaurant to eat morning tea was something that only the "tycoon" could do, even now the morning tea in the Cantonese restaurant is synonymous with high-end in our place, and few ordinary people will consume it.
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First, morning tea in Guangdong is not something that ordinary people can consume regularly
Cantonese morning tea varieties are particularly diverse, generally including intestinal powder, shrimp dumplings, chicken claws, ribs and other categories, Cantonese morning tea in Guangdong almost a tea house to eat a meal also cost 180 yuan, which even in Guangdong is not an ordinary person will often go to the place to consume.
The grade of morning tea is also high, medium and low grade, the street side of the fried intestine powder and fried niuhe is also considered morning tea, there is a street food stall side of the side of the stove is also considered to be part of the morning tea, these things are just like the northern fritters soy milk, this is the Cantonese people often eat morning tea, spend not much to eat, this is the real meaning of breakfast.
Guangdong people can go to the tea house to eat morning tea slowly, in addition to the old people with good economic income after retirement, that is, people who have money and leisure or go to talk about things, ordinary office workers do not have the leisure to eat morning tea every day.
Second, why morning tea can't catch fire in the north
Different eating habits: Northerners are used to simple convenience in the morning, such as a few buns and a bowl of tofu brain; or two fritters and a cup of soy milk; or a set of pancake fruits; or a bowl of ramen. The breakfast of northerners pays attention to the combination of light and dry and thin. Because northerners like to eat greasy and salty food for other meals, this is different from the Cantonese people's preference for light and crisp eating habits, and meals must have soup.
The consumption concept of breakfast is different: "eat early, eat early and eat less late" Although everyone knows this truth, but for office workers and students, the morning time is particularly tight, and the simpler and faster the breakfast, the better. The cost of a meal of Cantonese-style morning tea may be the top of many people's half a month's breakfast cost, and slow and methodical eating for half a day, even Cantonese people do not have much to consume in this way.
Operators operate in different ways: the restaurants in the north are basically doing lunch and dinner, the basic façade specializing in selling breakfast is very small, and the northern sale of breakfast belongs to the thin profit industry, because the unit price of customers is low.
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In fact, the breakfast of northerners is also very rich now, basically want to eat anything, but this has to go to large chain stores or hotels to eat.