The temperature is warm year round and much of the living is done outdoors.
Perhaps the sidewalk food culture exists everywhere in China, but I have no
experience with other places. In Guangzhou, the street vendors selling snacks
and meals are everywhere. These ubiquitous vendors are besides the tiny eating
establishments. In one block you can pass four or five
small family restaurants with room for a dozen patrons. Much of the Chinese
economy is made up of very humble family businesses.
Street vendors supply all kinds of food: whole fruit, cut fruit, fresh juice from the fruit,
kabobs, Middle Eastern bread, omelettes cooked on the spot, little sponge cakes cooked
in semi-circluar tins, sugar cane, juice from sugar cane, steamed rice wrapped in bamboo leaves,
tofu, and many unfamiliar morsels.
It is fun to see it all. They do a good business near metro stations and schools.
We have loved the bread and the fresh orange juice. It is interesting to see the vendors wheel their
cooking equipment up and start cooking. There must be thousands in Guangzhou.
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