Refreshments not only pay attention to sensory enjoyment such as color, aroma and taste, but also pay attention to the cultural connotation of refreshments. For example: In Yangzhou, the "Red Mansion Tea Snacks" based on the classic "Dream of Red Mansions" are launched at the "Riyue Ming Teahouse". The varieties are rich and diverse, including pine nuts and goose oil rolls, crab roe Xiaojiaoer, Ruyi Lock slices, etc. There are 25 varieties, each with rich cultural connotations, allowing customers to learn about little-known production methods and stories while tasting. For example, pine nuts and goose fat rolls. In the 41st chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", "Tea and Plum Blossom Snow at Cong Cui'an", it is written that Jia Mu asked everyone to "eat whatever you want". The snack is: "After the banquet at Zhujin Pavilion, girl They brought two boxes of snacks. There were two steamed items in one box, namely pine nuts and goose oil rolls and lotus root powder and osmanthus cake..." It is said in Chapter 62, "On Baoyu's birthday, Fang Guan sent a message to the kitchen. Lunch, which included four pine nut puff pastry..." Among them, the creamy pine nut rolls also appear in the "Red Mansion Tea Snacks" launched this time.

Another example: Chapter 41 of "Dream of Red Mansions" describes the cakes and snacks of the Jia family. A special silver mold is used to press rice flour into more than 40 flower shapes such as chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, and water chestnuts. And each form is only the size of a bean. No wonder Grandma Liu saw the exquisite and clear small fruits (snacks) while eating. She wanted to eat them but was reluctant to eat them. She specially picked one in the shape of a peony flower and said she would take it back to make patterns for the women in the countryside. The regional nature of refreshments is mainly due to the eating habits of one place. For example, the Ganbei region of Jiangxi Province is rich in tea, and is especially famous for Jiujiang Lushan Yunwu Tea. Based on the characteristics of local tea products, local residents have developed classic tea-accompanying snacks such as Jiujiang tea cakes, crisp candy, glutinous rice cakes, and Amy fruit. Most of these refreshments are made from local products. They are exquisite in appearance and have a sweet and unique taste. They complement each other well with the fragrance of Yunwu tea. As the saying goes: Appreciating the beautiful scenery of Mount Lu, tasting Yunwu fragrant tea, and eating Jiujiang's famous snacks are one of the great pleasures in life.

Many people like to drink Kung Fu tea in the southern Fujian area of ??Fujian Province and the Chaoshan area of ??Guangdong Province. Kung Fu tea should be strong and fragrant, so it should be accompanied by snacks. These snacks are quite particular, not only delicious in taste, but also elegant in appearance. The big ones are no more than the size of small mooncakes. They mainly include mung bean paste pie, coconut cake, mung bean cake, etc., as well as "taro dates" with southern Fujian characteristics. There are also various puffed foods and preserves. Family and friends usually enjoy tea and snacks together, and enjoy themselves happily. Cantonese people call morning tea "one cup and two pieces", that is, one cup of tea and two snacks. Tea is a clear drink with additional seasonings, which can satisfy your hunger without losing the fun of drinking tea.

Another example: There were many teahouses in old Beijing, which were different from those in the south. There were fewer teahouses in old Beijing, but book teahouses were very popular. Tea tasting was only auxiliary, and listening to storytelling was the main thing. Therefore, the refreshments during tea tasting were mostly melon seeds and other snacks, which was very casual. But there is a kind of teahouse in Beijing called "Red Stove House", which makes all Manchu and Han snacks, small and exquisite, with big eight pieces and small eight pieces, mainly including Beijing's aiwowo, bee cake, paicha, pot cake, sesame cake, etc. Customers can enjoy tea and refreshments at the same time. The development of refreshments must be trendy and reflect the characteristics of the times. With the development of tea-making technology today, tea has become an important raw material for many specialty refreshment foods. These refreshments add a little taste and fun to the tea drinking process. For example: green tea melon seeds are carefully made from the finest pumpkin seeds and green tea powder. They are thick, crispy and delicious. You can peel them and eat them, or you can hold them whole in your mouth. Because green tea powder is added, it contains a variety of tea elements and does not cause irritation. It is a healthy tea food for leisure time. Another example: tea gummies are made from high-grade steamed green tea and high-calcium, low-fat milk powder. They have a delicate, soft texture and do not stick to your teeth after eating. They are high-calcium, low-fat, and low-calorie green tea foods. In addition, there are tea jelly and so on, which have injected many fashion elements into the ever-changing tea market.

Another example: Due to the influence of Western food culture, the current Guangdong tea cake production has many varieties of baked tea cakes. The common ones include frankincense chicken cake, loosened nectar cake, puff pastry pineapple buns, Lingnan Egg tarts, etc., as well as various other egg tarts, milk tarts, puff pastry tarts, sago tarts and various Lingnan-style crispy corners, etc., are all high-quality baked snacks. Because the snacks made by baking are very particular about the selection of ingredients and portions, as well as the shape and baking temperature and time, the tea made in this way will be beautiful and delicious, and it will be very innovative in terms of taste, mouthfeel and shape, which can be called The perfect combination of Cantonese refreshment technology and fashion creativity.

In short, when tasting tea, you need to match the refreshments, just like red flowers and green leaves complement each other. Only with a pot of high-quality tea, some snacks to accompany the tea, and a completely relaxed mood can you taste the flavor of good tea. A cup of good tea and exquisite snacks make tea tasting more interesting. 1. Refreshments should adapt to the nature of tea

Drinking tea in leisure time, the principle of matching tea and food can be summarized into a short formula, that is, "match sweet with green, sour with red, melon seeds with oolong". The so-called sweet food is paired with green tea: that is, sweet food is paired with green tea, such as using various sweet cakes, pineapple cakes, etc. with green tea; sour food is paired with black tea, such as using fruits, lemon slices, candied fruits, etc. with black tea; Pair melon seeds with oolong tea: Drink salty food with oolong tea, such as melon seeds, peanuts, olives, etc. with oolong tea.

2. Tea snacks must be ornamental

Compared with traditional snacks, tea snacks are more exquisitely made, paying attention to the color and shape of the tea snacks, and paying attention to the ornamental value of the tea snacks. For example, the crystal butterfly dumplings are as clear as a tongue but still shy. After the dumplings are steamed, quickly insert the "butterfly whiskers" made of shark fin needles into the dumplings, which is lifelike and a wonderful touch. The all-vegetarian fillings appear in colorful colors through the transparent thin skin, which is pleasing to the eye; another example: the traditional tea shrimp dumplings are crystal clear in a small and exquisite bamboo steamer, and the fresh shrimps reveal a shy pink color, which is vaguely visible. The entrance is soft and elastic. Because the water chestnut paste is added to the stuffing, the shrimps are crispy and smooth, which seems to be especially reserved for tea drinkers. On the basis of the fresh shrimp dumplings, the innovative "Green White White" "Rabbit dumplings" are made with lean meat, fresh shrimps, etc. as fillings, transformed into the shape of a small white rabbit, dotted with ham meat as eyes, and then placed on the plate with coriander as a base, just like a group of small white rabbits playing on the grass...

3. Tea snacks should be tasty

The key to tasting tea snacks is to chew them slowly and savor them carefully, so tea snacks should be very tasty. For example: "Lihong Bubugao" is a tea snack made of lychee black tea soup mixed with water chestnut powder, with red and white alternate layers. First, mix part of the tea soup, water chestnut powder, white sugar and condensed milk to make a milk paste. The remaining tea soup is boiled with white sugar and powder slurry to make a tea soup paste. The two pastes are steamed in layers, and then frozen and carved into various shapes with molds. . Chew it carefully, it is cool and smooth, and the elegant lychee black tea fragrance lingers in your mouth. Paired with a cup of black tea, it will have a long aftertaste. Another example: Durian cake, the pastry is as thin as a cicada's wing. Brush the surface lightly with clear oil, sprinkle a few sesame seeds, and gently bite open the thin outer shell. It is like eating a freshly peeled durian. There are so many durians. Unexpectedly, the rich fragrance spreads on the tip of the tongue. The richness and freshness of durian is exactly the wonder of durian cake. The Dragon Ball Fragrant Sesame Rolls made of deep-fried Dragon Ball Tea Leaves are made by wrapping lean meat, shrimps, carrots and other fillings in glutinous rice skin and rolling them into a "sun" shape. Then they are sprinkled with egg yolk, sesame and Dragon Ball Tea Leaves, and placed in a pot. Deep-fried until golden brown; the tea leaves are inlaid on the outer skin, dotted with stars, crisp and brittle, leaving a fragrant aroma on the lips and teeth.

4. Refreshments should be diverse

There are many types of refreshments in my country with various flavors. In terms of local flavors, our country has Jinglu flavor and northwest flavor in the Yellow River Basin, Suyang flavor, Sichuan and Hunan flavor in the Yangtze River Basin, Guangdong and Fujian flavor in the Pearl River Basin, etc. In addition, there are Northeast, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei and Henan and other regions. Ethnic snacks. There is a wide choice of refreshments. Under the general guiding principle of "combination of dry and thin dishes, various flavors", you can choose any of the traditional snacks such as spring rolls, pot stickers, dumplings, shumai, steamed buns, glutinous rice balls, steamed buns, homemade cakes, white fungus soup, etc. There are several kinds, and innovative refreshment varieties based on different tea varieties can also be used. For example: Tea jelly is made by carefully blending jelly into four different flavors of tea (black tea, green tea, jasmine tea, oolong tea). It does not add coloring matter or preservatives and has a unique taste. It is a purely natural health food. In addition, there are tea melon seeds, tea milk candy and so on.