Each place has its particular living style. If you go for Chaoshan area, you will see people there are fond of drinking tea, actually they called  “eat tea” not “drink tea”. Otherwise people there like to eat “beef hot pot”. So when the local chaoshanese go for another city. They probably take there drinking gongfu tea habit to another city. If you go for the Huaqian bei in Shenzhen futian, in lots of commercial building, you can easily see there is tea set in some stall, which it is definitely chaoshan merchant there. Take my personal as an example, I was actually not that fond of tea. But, I did buy a tea set and sometimes make a gongfu tea by myself in my rent place in shenzhen.

I saw some shop are selling smoky pork meat, I know some other province like Hunan and Guizhou , people there like eating this smoky process meat. I went to one of my colleague to have dinner who come from Hunan, he did take some wild pork smoky meat to Shenzhen. So it is surely a kind of living or cuisine style, even we come to a strange city, These kind of living style is still staying in our blood.

There is a kind of feeling called homesick, I would like to say eating those hometown specialty foods do make us comfort. Like we may not really come back home at moment, but we take some alternative option to miss and experience the hometown flavor.