China News Service, Wuzhong, June 26 (Yu Jing, Zhang Xingbang) What wakes up Guangzhou people is Cantonese-style morning tea, while in Wuzhong, Ningxia, in the northwest, the morning tea that wakes up Wuzhong people is a bowl of ramen.

"Diners have a table in twos, drink eight treasures tea, eat glutinous ramen, talk about work and business, and talk about family affairs." On June 25th, the day of the 2022 China Pasta Expo and the 2nd Wuzhong Morning Tea Food Culture Festival, the reporter walked into Wuzhong, Experience the unique and charming morning tea culture.

  "I come to the morning tea shop almost every day. This is the habit of our old Wuzhong people." On the same day, in the Xiangding Ding Morning Tea Food Experience Hall, 60-year-old Wuzhong's Ma Baogang told reporters that now, "eating ramen" has long been in Wuzhong. It is not limited to filling the stomach, but has evolved into a morning tea culture based on eating ramen, a social way.

He often makes appointments here with relatives and friends, ordering ramen and Babao Gaiwan tea, accompanied by some pasta and side dishes, and chatting while eating, starting at 8:00 in the morning and often ending at around 11:00.

  It is understood that there are more than 570 ramen restaurants distributed in the streets and alleys of Wuzhong City, and this is the scene every morning.

In recent years, morning tea ramen has gradually become a new symbol of Wuzhong dining.

Morning tea has become a new consumption trend for Wu Zhong people.

  "The real rise of Wuzhong morning tea shop began with a ramen restaurant. In the 1980s, the wave of reform and opening up poured into the northwest inland of China, and many Lanzhou people came to Ningxia to open a ramen restaurant, bringing the novelty of ramen to Wuzhong. , After nearly ten years of development, morning tea has become a common practice in Wuzhong City." The relevant person in charge of Wuzhong City told reporters that Cantonese-style morning tea is a folk food custom in Lingnan. A pot of tea and two desserts.

"Morning tea please" is also a common social way for Cantonese people.

Different from Cantonese-style morning tea, Wuzhong morning tea is rich in local characteristics.

The two most important protagonists in the morning tea, "Beef Noodles" and "Eight Treasures Tea", one represents the Northwest Noodles and the other represents Wuzhong Tea. In addition, dozens of side dishes and pastries are also full of Northwest characteristics. .

  On the same day, in the main store of Mazi Beef Noodles, Zhang Qiang, a citizen from Yinchuan, and his family sat together, drinking sweet Babao tea, and tasting exquisite pastries and side dishes.

"In recent years, it has become a very fashionable thing to come to Wuzhong for morning tea. After eating the morning tea, and then turn around to the beautiful scenery of Wuzhong, the beautiful weekend begins like this." Zhang Qiang told reporters that in order to taste the morning tea here, their family, Specially stayed in Wuzhong for one night.

  Today, Wuzhong's morning tea culture is closely related to tourism, and it is a must-have experience for foreign tourists to Wuzhong. Many tourists who come here in the name of "Wuzhong Morning Tea" will appreciate the beauty of Wuzhong after experiencing the morning tea culture.

Morning tea culture has become an important booster for the development of Wuzhong's tourism industry, and it has also provided more and more jobs for the local area, effectively promoting the development of the tertiary industry and social and livelihood undertakings.

  At present, the annual sales of morning tea catering stores in Wuzhong City have reached about 1 billion yuan, and they have gradually moved towards marketization, large-scale and industrialization, which has effectively driven the integrated development of Wuzhong catering, tourism and other industries, and solved more than 10,000 jobs. It has become a Wuzhong City's new economic growth pole.

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