Breakfast Bowl · Pounded Tea
Gongcheng Youcha (Yao Pounded Oil Tea)
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The Yao oil tea custom is part of the UNESCO listing of China's traditional tea practices, inscribed in 2022.
Soaked tea leaves are stir-fried in hot oil with ginger, garlic and peanuts and pounded as they cook, then boiled into a bitter, gingery broth. It is poured over puffed rice, peanuts and other crunchy bits, and bowls are refilled again and again.
Why it's made this way: It is the breakfast drink of Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County in Guilin, and the Yao oil tea custom was added to China's national intangible heritage list in 2021.
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