Zhi Chun Chai Sei ( teahouse )

rating: 4/5

When we first stepped into the tea house, we felt that it still remained the old palace feel. It's rooftop didn't change to our modern HDB rooftops but still remained like the olden days. When we went into the dining area, the first thing that caught my eye was the left over food on certain tables. In Singapore restaurants, seldom are there many left overs, however in these tea house, it was as if most of the food served was left over. Another shocking point is that there is no room temperature water served at this tea house. Nowadays, due to the fast paced lifestyle that most of us adopted, we can't afford to slowly drink sips of hot water, so many preferred cold water. However, there is no cold water in this tea house, which once again highlights to us that their lifestyle in Yangzhou is of a slower pace as compared to Singapore's. Overall, the food served at this tea house were very different from Singapore's but very delicious and we enjoyed our them a lot. Their waitresses were also very friendly as they explained thus the name of the dishes and told us the way of eating certain dishes. Therefore, we have learned the types of dishes the people in Yangzhou will consume for their breakfast.

The entrance to the teahouse. The rooftop of the teahouse bring out a royal feeling as It's roof is like those of the traditional palace, showing that this teahouse has a long history, and it is passed down from one generation to another 

The customers in the teahouse mostly gather in quite a large group and the proportions of the amount of food that they eat is alot,  compared to the normal breakfast we had in singapore. 

The dishes served at the teahouse include cow's intestine, mushroom, cold meat, buns, dumplings and other type of dishes. The favour of the dishes were rather strong and oily, especially the buns as the bread is oily and quite tasteless, unlike the buns in Singapore 

A bun which require to use a straw to drink the hot gravy inside the bun before eating it. The gravy in the bun is quite oily but fragant. If you did not drink finish all the gravy before eating the bun, it will burn your tongue.