Yangchun Donghu Hotel · Classic Cantonese morning tea guide

#MarchGoodPlaces2025 📍Location: Yangchun City, Guangdong, China In the low-key town of Yangchun, if you ask the locals where to have the most authentic dim sum, nine out of ten times they will point to the **Donghu Hotel. **This is not only a gathering place for locals to drink morning tea, but also hides the rhythm of life and the atmosphere of old Guangdong. As soon as you walk in, the fragrant tea aroma and the smell of steaming steamers immediately make your stomach growl. The morning tea here is served in the traditional format - carts, dim sum paper, stamps, full of old-fashioned feelings. The auntie pushes a dim sum cart full of hot food slowly towards your table, shouting: "Do you want shrimp dumplings, siu mai, or chicken feet~" Classic Cantonese-style morning tea recommendations (Top 8 must-try dishes) 1. Chicken feet (steamed chicken feet with Chinese rice broth): crispy, fragrant, sweet and salty, with a very gelatinous texture~ 2. Shrimp Dumplings: thin skin and tender fillings. When you take a bite, the chewy texture of fresh shrimps bursts out instantly! 3. Shaomai: rich meat flavor, perfect ratio of lean meat to fat, super classic 4. Barbecued pork buns: sweet, fragrant and soft, full of honey-glazed barbecued pork when you bite into them~ 5. Glutinous rice chicken: wrapped in lotus leaves and steamed, rich stuffing, rice fragrance mixed with lotus leaf flavor, super healing 6. Rice noodle rolls (beef or barbecued pork): smooth and tasty, even better with special soy sauce 7. Lava buns: Salted egg yolk lava bursts, sweet and salty blend ~ full happiness index 8. Water chestnut cake/radish cake: crispy on the outside and glutinous on the inside, full of fragrance, especially suitable for a pot of hot tea~ 🌿 For tea, you can choose traditional teas such as Pu'er, Tieguanyin, Xiangpian, Shoumei, etc., which are refreshing and refreshing, and are the soul partner of the entire morning tea. In a small town like Yangchun, you can enjoy a traditional Cantonese dim sum. There is no need to queue and no commercial noise. Instead, there is only the daily life of the old Cantonese people. Every bite of dim sum here feels like a quiet, heartfelt moment. Next time if you pass by Yangchun, you might as well walk into this old hotel, order a pot of hot tea and a few baskets of dim sum, and sit by the window - eat slowly, drink slowly, and slowly feel the gentleness of the south.