Three bowls of thin beef brisket noodles on demand: Xie Anqi's "I Love Tea Restaurant"
The tea restaurant is the thing I am most familiar with since I was a child. When I was a child, after getting the money for breakfast and lunch from my parents, I always liked to go to the tea restaurant with my younger brother to have a full meal. After I grew up and devoted myself to work, I also liked to go to the tea restaurant with my younger brother for breakfast on holidays. When my parents went out to travel and my brother and I were left at home, the tea restaurant also became a place we frequented.
Tea restaurants are the most mundane and everyday things in Hong Kong. Ordinary as if nothing worth mentioning. But the tea restaurant carries memories of my teenage and early adulthood. Some of these memories are with family and some with friends.
The tea restaurant also carries a diverse and flexible Hong Kong-style culture. The food served in the tea restaurant includes Chinese-style, such as dry fried beef, and Western-style, such as steak and chopped rice. There are also Chinese and Western beverages, such as Chinese tea, soy milk, coffee, milk tea, etc. With the opening of more and more tea restaurants, some even offer Thai and Vietnamese food. It shows the diverse and inclusive Hong Kong-style culture. In addition, tea restaurants have also developed a set of market terms in order to order food quickly. For example, wheat skin breakfast is abbreviated as "Zaopi"; rice noodle breakfast is abbreviated as "early rice noodle" and so on. This also reflects the fast-paced Hong Kong-style life.
The song introduced today is already an old work from more than ten years ago. But the style of the song is very relaxed, and it also sings the characteristics of Hong Kong-style tea restaurants. My favorite chorus is:
"I love you with a simple and civilian personality. It will make customers happy and satisfied as if they are home. The butter meal bag is paired with a century-old strong tea, and the tired body is also sublimated."
Under the new Hong Kong, brainwashing education and general education have rushed like a flood. How to preserve Cantonese and Hong Kong-style culture is a problem and responsibility that this generation of Hong Kong people must face. But I believe that preserving Hong Kong-style culture in the most everyday and relaxing way is sustainable and effective. Would you like to have a cup of Hong Kong-style milk tea?
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