Dietary Habits

Herbal Tea

(gz.gov.cn)
Updated: 2010-11-08 21:20

Drinking herbal tea is a local habit. The herbal tea is prepared by simmering medicinal herbs which are cold in nature and able to remove internal heat in summer and alleviating sore throat in dry winter weather. Local people tend to suffer from excessive internal heat as they eat a lot of fried food and live in a city with a subtropical monsoon maritime climate thus, drinking cold tea has become a part of the local dietary habit.

The herbal tea has a long history in Guangzhou and is available in many varieties. Since the 1980s, a great diversity of herbal tea granules and soft-package herbal tea has been developed and become a favorite drink for many families in the summer.