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Guangdong often says "drink morning tea", "sigh morning tea", "sigh" means to enjoy; Shanghai, Yangzhou and other places also have the habit of drinking tea early, but do not say to drink tea, but to "eat morning tea", in fact, the most appropriate saying is "eat snacks", drinking tea is secondary. Buns, roasted wheat, rice, Yangchun noodles, etc., are all exquisite dim sum in the Jiangnan area.
There are also meat foods, such as chicken claws, beef brisket, ribs and the like in Cantonese morning tea, and when they arrive in Yangzhou, the subject matter is replaced by pork or ham.
Spring under Yangzhou. After eating a long-established brand such as Fuchun Yechun, this time we went to eat the Quyuan Tea House located in the HongqiaoFang Hotel.
Last time I missed the fun garden perfectly. Living in Hongqiao Fang, walk to the promenade in front of the store at eight o'clock in the morning, which is already bustling. Ran over to ask the waiter, and replied that he had finished the queue, and if he was in line now, he could only eat lunch, and the meal time was uncertain.
This time I did my homework. Commented that Xiaohongshu searched for a strategy, looked around the Internet, and concluded that if you want to eat fun garden at breakfast, it is not wrong to queue up earlier. As for how early? It is best to arrive before 6 o'clock.
Before going to bed, I searched on a treasure and found that it was still interesting to queue up?! 160 yuan a number, thinking in my heart, with this money two people can eat a meal beautifully, why bother.
So we got up at 5:30 in the morning, arrived at fun garden before 6 o'clock, looked at the queue of dozens of people in front of us, and hurried up. Roughly counting, from the first one to me, there were about 80 people, but because everyone was in a group, the actual number was less than 80.
So he stood in the middle of the line and quietly waited for the restaurant to call. At that time, the sky was already bright, the trees in the garden were luxuriant, clean and tidy, the wind blowing from the Slender West Lake was still chilling in the early morning, and the March day in Yangcheng was the most romantic and most perishable.
A big sister in front of me was chatting with me. She is from Lianyungang, traveled with several friends and family, and today is the third day of her arrival in Yangzhou. The eldest sister asked me, is this restaurant worth queuing up? I said, look at this team, it should, compare, it's worth it. Oh, not necessarily, the people who come to this queue for dinner are estimated to be out-of-town tourists like us! I said not necessarily, you see a few people in the front of the line, calm and relaxed, like locals who come to dinner. The eldest sister mourns, if I can't eat today, I won't queue, and I'll come back a little earlier tomorrow!
At 7 o'clock, the dust settled, we are the 49th, but it is also the second round. So I took the ticket number, waited for an hour, and sat down at eight o'clock. Pushing the door in, the tension of the queue immediately dissipated, the diners leisurely enjoyed the gifts of the fun garden, the waiters were not hurried, the food was closed, and we were finally able to eat the food.
Ordered some representative dishes of Yangzhou morning tea, namely five-diced buns, Huaiyang scalded dried silk, glutinous rice dumplings, steamed dumplings with soup, crab yellow soup buns, radish shredded oil terminals, pine nuts and so on.
Jadeite roast for sale. In the first episode of "Flavor of the World 2", the crew went to Fun Garden to shoot "Yangzhou Double Jeopardy", one of which was a mille-feuille cake, and the other was jadeite roasting. The common point of the two kinds of Yangzhou dim sum is a large amount of sugar, sugar melted into the noodles at high temperature, disappeared into the invisible, sweet with salty, salty without pressing sweet, salty and sweet, the rest is fresh.
The first time I ate King Kong Navel Bubble Fruit Powder. This thing is not a high-end food, but it is very interesting. In the old days, Nanjing people had to eat a "lower day" after a summer nap, sometimes a bowl of small wontons, sometimes a piece of duck fat shortbread, and sometimes a piece of diamond navel.
It is called the Vajrayogini because its shape is similar to the navel of the Vajra in the temple. A Diamond Navel has six teeth, it is said that it was originally eight teeth, when Qianlong toured the south, he found that people had eaten the eight navels "Eight Flags" into their stomachs, so they changed it to six navels.
Before the diamond navel is baked in the oven, only a layer of sugar water is brushed on the surface, and after baking, the dough cake is date red, the outer skin is sweet and crispy, and the inside is soft, and its sweetness becomes the original sweetness of the flour.
In Shanghai, the King Kong navel is called "tiger's claw", which is very graphic.
Dumpling noodles are also a traditional food in Yangzhou. Wonton noodles are boiled together with noodles, not only eat wontons, but also eat noodles, but also drink soup, really manage to be full, is a good thing on the breakfast table of working people.
Just the day before writing this article, the 2021 Black Pearl list was released, and the Fun Garden Tea House was once again awarded the Black Pearl Two Diamonds.
If you ask me, is Fun Garden worth queuing up? I would say that it is worth a row once, for this exquisite taste and the view of the early morning. Perhaps, for a queue experience, it is also worth getting up early to queue up.
Eat and drink enough, the sun shines on the earth, the spring outside the door is full of spring, and the ancient capital is full of life.