Why do Guangdong restaurants use tea to wash dishes before meals?

Cantonese people will wash the tableware before eating, which is called "lǒng" bowl in Cantonese. This is a habit that will be formed since childhood. When going out to eat, be sure to put away bowls, chopsticks and other tableware, and then set the table for serving. Therefore, Cantonese people are also called lǒng Bowl Shinto. To enter this kind of teaching, you must master several tricks:

1. Control the temperature of tea. The temperature of tea directly determines the success or failure of lǒng bowl. The temperature is too low to be disinfected. If the temperature is too high, you will burn yourself.

2. Master the correct order of lǒng bowls. First, pour the tea into the cup, stir the tea quickly with chopsticks, five times clockwise and five times counterclockwise, then quickly change the spoon and go up and down ten times. Then before the water temperature drops, pour the tea leaves into the bowl, and put the cup mouth into the water to rotate, preferably for more than ten times. Finally, pick up the bowl and use the residual temperature to rotate the bowl mouth, so that the tea leaves can flow evenly through the bowl mouth and stay in the public tea bowl. The bowl is ready. Whether you go to a food stall or a high-end restaurant, you must adhere to the purpose of lǒng bowl teaching: not only to be refined, but also to be coquettish. Don't care about other people's eyes, the lǒng bowl is to please yourself, and it is a life attitude of savoring life and pursuing high-quality life.

First, because Guangdong is located in the south, the climate is humid. Even if the tableware is clean, there will always be dust sticking to it after a while. Furthermore, going out to eat with public tableware and cooking with hot tea is also a disinfection process. Although it is only a few tens of seconds, it is enough to give people a psychological hint that "the tableware has been disinfected and can be used safely".

Second, go out for dinner, sometimes relatives or friends haven't arrived yet. At this time, helping them with the lǒng bowl reflects the care between people. A small action, which contains infinite love.

Third, Cantonese people like to drink tea, so they are also very particular about the brewing of tea. You can't drink the first tea, just to wash the dust off the tea. The first time I drank tea improperly, it was a pity to abandon it, so I was taken to the lǒng bowl.

Fourth, Cantonese people have the superstitious concept of "wealth around water". Water represents wealth, and ironing tableware with hot water means that water flows through tableware, which means that the whole body is surrounded by wealth.

Washing tableware with boiling hot tea in winter will warm the cold tableware. Hold it in the palm of your hand, warm and intimate.