Because Nanjing people are addicted to ducks and geese, the most popular food in Nanjing is a variety of foods made with ducks and geese, including Guihua salt water duck, Nanjing plate duck, duck blood vermicelli soup, duck gizzard, Dongshan roasted goose and so on. Another feature of Nanjing people's diet is the popularity of all kinds of wild vegetables, including artemisia, chrysanthemum brain, marjoram, wolfberry, chestnut, amaranth, goose intestine, toon (also known as dry eight fresh). There are also the so-called Water Eight Fresh, which refers to fish, lozenges, lotus root, wild rice, mizuna, chicken head fruit, lotus seedpods, and watercress. Nanjing snacks are also rich in varieties, including Wanton Eggs, Live Beads, Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup, Beef Vermicelli Soup, Duck Oil Crispy Biscuits, Kaiyang Dried Shredded Pork, Dried Chicken Sauce Huihao, Marinated Tea Eggs, Yin's Chicken Sauce Soup Buns, Glutinous Rice Lotus Roots, Five-Spice Quail Eggs, Plum Blossom Cake, Cinnamon Candied Taro Mushrooms, Tofu Brains, Cinnamon Chiboustic Bean Lantern, Cold Noodles, Five-Spice Soy Beans, and more. Nanjing snacks are mainly concentrated in Fuzimiao, Shishiqiao (near Hunan Road), Ganjiayuan, etc. Among them, Qifangge, Kuiguangge, Jiang Youji, Yongheyuan, and Liufengju in Fuzimiao area are the traditional famous stores of Nanjing snacks, and their specialty snacks are known as the "Qinhuai Eight Specialties". Liu Changxing Noodle House is a famous noodle house in Nanjing. The century-old Han Fuxing is a famous salted duck and duck store in Nanjing. Qinhuai Eight Perfections
The so-called "Qinhuai Eight Perfections" refers to the sixteen famous dishes of eight snack halls in Nanjing:
Five-spiced tea eggs and five-spiced beans of Kui Guang Ge;
Crab shell and yellow baked cake and dried shredded pork in Yong He Yuan;
Breaded cake with duck fat and crispy biscuits, dried shredded pork in sesame oil of Qifang Ge;
scallion pancakes and bean curd brains of Liufengju;
mixed vegetable buns and noodles with shredded chicken of Qifangge;
beef potstickers and beef soup of Jiang Youji;
thin-skinned dumplings and noodles with popped fish in red soup of Zhanyuan Noodle House;
five-colored cupcakes and osmanthus-sandwiched small yuanxiao of Lianhu Gaoxiao Dumpling Shop.
Specialty snacks
The Dashiba Street of Fuzhimiao and the Lion Bridge on Hunan Road are famous food streets with many special snacks, such as duck blood vermicelli, lion's head of Lion King's House, Yin's Chicken Soup Buns, Lianhu Gao Duan Shop, "Can't Forget" Pickled Fish, and Green Willow Residence, etc. In addition, there are many other specialty snacks scattered in Xinjiekou. In addition, scattered in the Xinjiekou and Nanda near the many food stores also for many netizens word-of-mouth recommendations. Nanjing snacks are famous throughout the country.
Other snacks
Small dumplings, boiled dried silk, duck blood vermicelli, Ruyi back to the halo dry, assorted tofu floods, the first yuan beans, salt water duck, steamed dumplings, eggs, stinky tofu, live beads, Nannong barbecued chicken and so on.