Out of Guangdong Province, the most obvious feeling is not only the ever-changing language, but also the differences in food culture. So, if you go to a restaurant to eat, you can experience this very well.
Eating in Guangdong and leaving Guangdong will be particularly profound. This sentence means not only the variety of dishes, but also the courtesy you receive when you enter a restaurant.
When you walk into Guangdong, or any restaurant in Guangdong and Guangxi in a broader sense, the biggest feeling is that you will be warmly greeted by customers, and the number of guests will be asked, thus guiding you to eat at the right table.
Needless to say, the service staff will consciously offer tea and bowls for washing dishes and chopsticks. Guests will wash dishes and chopsticks with tea when ordering. Then, the waiter will pour you formal tea, chat while drinking tea, and wait patiently for the dishes to be served.
In the meantime, the waiter will check whether the teapot on the customer's desk needs refills from time to time. If the waiter is busy, you can lift the lid of the teapot and put it on the teapot. When a waiter passes by, he will know that it is time to pour water, and will consciously take the teapot away to pour water for the guests. There is no need for words between customers and service personnel, so they understand each other. Eating in such an atmosphere makes you feel very happy.
However, when you step out of the border between Guangdong and Guangxi, you may not enjoy such treatment.
I remember we went to a restaurant in Yunnan, but no one paid attention to us after we sat down, so I had to get up and walk to the service desk. Then the staff at the service desk asked me and made me laugh. She asked, "What's the matter?" !
At that time, I looked around the restaurants, and then I asked her inexplicably, "Isn't this a restaurant?" What can I do if I come to you? " Then the girl gave me an impatient look and said, "I haven't started business yet, and the master hasn't come yet." Then she ignored me.
I looked at the wall clock behind her in surprise. It's already half past five! Isn't it normal to come to dinner at this time? You even said it was closed! Well, we have to get up and change for another one. Although there is food, it gives us the feeling that we disturb their cleanliness and are reluctant to serve them.
In addition, there are links of washing dishes and chopsticks before meals. Except for Guangdong and Guangxi, other provinces do not have this habit.
And we often do as the Romans do and don't wash. However, the children are unwilling. The way they came up with was to take the poured bowls and chopsticks to the restaurant door and wash them before returning to their seats with confidence.
In addition to this unaccustomed, no service staff offered you tea, and even some restaurants didn't even have water. When you ask the waiter to bring a pot of water, they still feel strange. Aren't you here for dinner? Why drink water?
When encountering such a restaurant, we can only express our helplessness. Let nature take its course If there is no water, there is no water. After the dishes are served, it is also possible to quench your thirst with soup temporarily.
There is no problem in asking waiters to serve meals in hotels in Jiangnan provinces. For example, in Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and so on. Rice is on call. But it is not easy to cross the river to some northern provinces, such as Henan, to eat a bowl of rice.
I remember a while ago, we went to the restaurant to order food, and we didn't remember to serve rice until we were halfway through, so we asked the waiter to give each of us a bowl of rice. But the waiter didn't think about it, and told us directly that there was no rice, only noodles.
This answer surprised us a little, so we asked her why the restaurant didn't prepare rice. People here seldom eat rice, so if you want to eat it, you must tell me in advance, so it is easy to wash rice in the kitchen. If you don't say it in advance, it will take a long time to improvise now.
So that's what happened! So we learned our lesson. Every time we go to a restaurant to order food, we will tell the waiter to serve us several bowls of rice in advance, otherwise we will eat vegetables or order noodles!
The above are some interesting things encountered in self-driving travel. Through personal experience, let children fully feel the cultural differences on the basis of diet. I think this is also one of the meanings of going to road trip.
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