Gardern TeaHouse

We lined up early in the morning and waited for almost an hour. It was ok for the three of us. The price was acceptable, nearly 300 yuan. The green pepper noodles and dried shredded vegetables were quite good. The crab roe buns were not good, 22 yuan each, not worth it. The shrimp stewed noodles were not good either. Others were ok!

I finally got a chance to queue up at the Garden Teahouse. Every time I went there the line was always so long that I eventually had to give up. This time I finally got a chance, and the taste was still very good, but as a Yangzhou morning tea, it wasn't much different from other morning teas!

I have known for a long time that Yangzhou snacks are very famous and that you have to queue up if you want to eat them. After arriving, I found the most famous Garden Teahouse, and as expected, there was a long queue. But fortunately, the store has a rule that you have to queue up for a la carte orders, but you don’t have to queue up for set meals.

The Garden Teahouse should be a latecomer in Yangzhou morning tea. It is located on Xingcheng West Road in Yangzhou. I ordered the famous small hot dried shredded vegetables, kidney soup and five-piece buns. The kidney soup was served first, with a little coriander and a decent amount of pork kidneys. It was smooth and refreshing in the mouth, and the soup was a little salty. I had never seen hot dried shredded vegetables before. It was my first time eating it. The ingredients were quite exquisite. There was dried shrimp on the top, and then a layer of shredded ginger, and below the shredded ginger was chopped mustard tuber, and then coriander. There were also a few crushed peanuts under the coriander. The overall taste was quite fresh and salty. The five-piece buns had very good ingredients, including diced ginseng, diced chicken, diced bamboo shoots and diced meat. I didn't taste the remaining one. The overall taste was not bad, but the price was a bit expensive. Friends who come to Yangzhou for the first time can come and taste the Yangzhou morning tea.

Long queues are a must on holidays. There are fewer people upstairs for the set menu, so you don't have to queue, but you still have to wait for a seat. The 90 set menu has a wide variety of dishes, including braised pork, large boiled dried shredded vegetables, small boiled dried shredded vegetables, and kidney soup. There is a basket of noodles, including fresh meat buns, red bean paste buns, dried plum buns, three-diced buns, green vegetable buns, and steamed dumplings. I added a crab roe bun and a five-diced bun. After tasting them, I decided to buy them to take away.

Yangzhou steamed buns are famous for being delicious, but the downside is that there are too many people. I don't like queuing so I went to the second floor with my family of three to eat the set meal. The portion is quite large. The big boiled dried shredded pork and the chicken soup dried shredded pork are delicious. The pig lung soup and various snacks are a set meal, so I have to eat them. Next time I would rather queue up than go to the first floor. The snacks must be ordered by yourself to taste good!

The poetic and picturesque scenery of Jiangnan is fully displayed in the spring scenery. Go to the teahouse and order a large plate of boiled dried bean curd, and feed one or two pieces of steamed bun skin to the koi and swans in the lake. For a moment, I feel as if I have traveled back to ancient times and become a young man with free time all day long.