Yangzhou Morning Tea

Yangzhou morning tea is a folk food custom which has followed the style of Huaiyang cuisine. The key of drinking morning tea in Yangzhou is pursuing this ‘leisure’. With a cup of tea in hand, and a few friends, that leisure is nostalgic in this ‘busy’ era. Therefore, take your time, do not rush to have your morning tea so that you could enjoy the delicious.

The types of Yangzhou morning tea are variety:

Crab Dumplings in Soup: Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has already enjoyed a high reputation. Every August to March is the best time to taste it.

San Ding buns: The ‘San Ding’ mentioned here is made of chicken, meat, and bamboo. The buns are beautiful in appearance and it can be described as the best in the buns.

Multiple Layer Oil Cake: The cake is a diamond-shaped cube, and the cake is divided into 64 layers. The layers of sugar and oil are stacked on top of each other, which looks good and tastes sweet .

Boiled and dried bean curd: Dried bean curd and cooked chicken shreds are the main ingredients. This dish has extremely fine requirements for the chef’s knifework. A piece of dried bean curd can be sliced into 18 slices after processing by the chef. The dried bean curd cut out is uniform in thickness and tastes very good.

There are many morning tea house in Yangzhou, and most of them have branches. Well-known morning tea houses include: Yechun Tea House, Fuchun Tea House, Gonghechun Tea House, Jinchun Tea House and so on. In addition, there are many tea houses in the streets and alleys of Yangzhou, which are also loved by diners.