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The essence of Guangdong cuisine is not morning tea or rice rolls, but something you can’t imagine!

2024-08-18

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When many people mention Cantonese cuisine, the most impressive thing should be morning tea, followed by rice rolls, and then seafood and a wide variety of other foods. But there is another kind of food that can be seen on the streets and can be served in formal restaurants, but it is overlooked by everyone. Its influence is really asymmetrical with its reputation. Today, Rice and Food will promote it so that everyone can have one more kind of food to enjoy, and it can also polish its reputation!

Morning tea has a long history. The key is that the various dim sum in morning tea are delicious and eye-catching, and have become popular delicacies. This is normal and natural. However, the food to be introduced below also has a long history and is delicious. In the eyes of Guangdong people, it is also highly sought after. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the essence of Guangdong cuisine. However, its influence is limited to Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao. It is not as famous as morning tea, rice noodle rolls, etc. What is going on? Next, let's analyze it together.

Guangdong stew is a delicacy with a long history. It is both a recipe and a medicinal food. Guangdong people have always believed that drinking more soup can nourish the body. There are particular requirements for what kind of soup to drink in different seasons. Different soup ingredients have different effects. This is not a casual one! The weather in Guangdong is hot and humid, and many people have long had the habit of drinking herbal tea to detoxify. However, herbal tea is always three-point poison. So by adding an appropriate amount of medicinal food or ingredients to the daily warm and nourishing soup, the role of the medicinal materials can be brought into play, which will not hurt the body and can achieve the effect of conditioning the body. Therefore, Guangdong people especially like to drink soup, especially a cup of stew!

However, Guangdong people like to drink soup, which does not mean that northerners like it. I remember one time, a friend from Lanzhou came over, and I happily invited him to eat together. So I thought about it and took him to drink Guangdong's special stew. Who knows, my friend couldn't stand it after two sips! This is strange, how can we not drink soup that is treated as a treasure here? It turns out that in Lanzhou, they are not used to drinking stew at all. They instinctively have a resistance to putting pork, chicken or turtle in the soup. Moreover, the soup has the taste of medicinal materials, which makes them feel like drinking Chinese medicine, which they are not used to.