Nantong oil cake is a very popular snack. It's a kind of cake fried with fermented noodles, not fried cakes in the north. This kind of cake is not available all year round, but it usually comes on the market after the weather is warm.
2. Nantong jump face
Nantong Miantiao snacks are also called "Cao Ding Noodles", "Daoxiao Noodles" or "Daoxiao Noodles". Because the processing technology is exquisite, the appearance is uniform, the strip length is smooth, elastic and ribbed, so it will not paste after cooking for a long time. When you eat, you add tough but not hard snacks, which are chewy and delicious. If served with various toppings. Stir-fry Hangzhou specialty snacks with soy sauce, lard and monosodium glutamate. , are particularly delicious. Nantong tiaomian, as a high-grade pastry, has a long-standing reputation. When did the "cut plane" become a "jumping plane"? According to legend, it is related to the anti-Japanese hero Cao Ding. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Ding opened a noodle restaurant in Chengshan Road, specializing in noodles. At that time, Langshan incense was at its peak, and the specialty snacks of Dalian and Xi 'an were gathered by pilgrims from all directions. To go to Wolf Mountain, you have to go through Chengshan Road to get Shanghai's special snacks. Therefore, our business is very prosperous. Cao gets up early and is greedy for the dark, relying on two-sided handmade noodles. Although he is exhausted, the demand is still in short supply. While rolling noodles, Cao Ding thought that if we can produce more noodles to meet the requirements of pilgrims without spending too much effort on Shanghai specialty snacks. Once when he came home, he saw a villager mowing the grass to feed the cows. Inspired by this, he finally came up with a wonderful method: tie a strong hemp rope buckle on a special low table and put a rolling pin in the rope buckle. In this way, raise your hand and gently knead Xi 'an's special snacks. With the inertia of the hemp rope shaking, your body will jump while rubbing and the rolling speed will be greatly accelerated. Because the dough is pressed to produce gluten, the noodles are extremely tough, and with various special snacks, the taste is unique. One day, a customer enjoyed a special snack in Shanghai and asked, "What's the name of this noodle?" Cao Ding had a brainwave and replied with a smile: "Jump face".
3. Nantong Huojiao
Fire pepper is a traditional snack in Nantong, and it is relatively simple to make. Because boiled water is required for cooking and hot oil is required for frying, the finished product is similar to jiaozi's Shanghai specialty snacks, so it is called Huojiao. Nantong Bars: Bars, also known as "resting feet", are an economic snack in Nantong, belonging to the category of baked wheat cakes. Because the mature tool is cylinder furnace, and the foreign dish is rhombic, the finished product is divided into two pieces, so Nantong area is called cylinder piece. The materials and production of cylinder slices are different from those of sesame cakes, and the flavor is also different, which is rare in other places.
4. Sweet and sour yellow croaker
Yellow croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea) produced in Lvsi Fishing Ground is one of the oldest and most important economic fish in China. Yellow croaker contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, calcium, iron and other nutrients. Yellow croaker gum is an advanced nutritional supplement, and there are many ways to eat yellow croaker. Sweet and sour yellow croaker is a famous dish in Nantong.
5, money radish cake
Founded in the late Qing Dynasty, Nantong Dim Sum Chef improved it in the 1970s according to Suiyuan Food List, making the finished product harmonious and pleasing to the eye, with clear money shape, clear lines, crisp skin and fragrant stuffing. "Nantong Money Radish Cake" has been included in China snacks and encyclopedia of China.
6. Hibiscus huoxiang dumplings
Pogostemon cablin is cool and fragrant, and it is a good Chinese herbal medicine. The pastry chef in Nantong made dumpling wrappers with leaves of Pogostemon cablin, stuffed with sweet-scented osmanthus bean paste, and soft fried. Beijing specialty snacks Hangzhou specialty snacks are like hibiscus flowers in bud, and the entrance is cool and fragrant. This point has been included in "China Snacks" and "Encyclopedia of China" and has become a national famous point.
7, leek box
Yuan Mei's "Menu with the Garden" during the reign of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. Leek boxes are generally packed with leeks, which are suitable for spring consumption. The skin of this product is golden and crisp, and the filling is crisp and tender, which has the effect of crisp without frying and soft without rice flour. It is a timely snack in Shanghai.
8. Stewed Langshan Chicken
Langshan Chicken is one of the eight standard chicken breeds in the world, formerly known as Chahe Chicken and Matang Black Chicken. 1872 was discovered by an English sailor in Nantong, and brought back to England to join the special snacks, so it was named Langshan Chicken. Langshan chicken is a special snack in Xi 'an, with black feathers and bright colors. It is a kind of chicken with both eggs and meat, with long legs and thin skin and fine meat. After Langshan Chicken was exported abroad, Shanghai specialty snacks spread all over the country and were once included in the World Excellent Poultry Atlas. Langshan chicken has many ways to eat because of its thin skin and tender meat.
9, the world's first fresh
Meretrix meretrix, which is abundant in the South Yellow Sea beach, has the reputation of being the freshest in the world, and contains many elements such as iron, calcium and iodine needed by protein and human body. In ancient times, tributes were dedicated to the imperial court. There are many ways to eat clam shells, such as frying, simmering soup, barbecue, raw wok and so on. Iron plate clams and money clams cakes are famous dishes in Nantong.
10, Wenfeng Shuangzhu
The famous dish of Wenfeng Hotel is also called Fried Double Bamboo. The main raw material is Soren, fried with bamboo shoots. Soles are mainly produced in Dalian specialty snacks in Rudong Beach of this city. Shaped like a bamboo tube, the shell is yellowish and the meat is like jade, which is the top grade of seafood. In recent years, a sole fish farm has been developed in Dongsha, Rudong, and the sole fish harvested from autumn and winter to around Qingming is delicious. The razor clam can also be used for making stewed dried razor clam, bathing the imperial concubine (razor clam milk soup) and making nun glue (steamed razor clam with eggs).
1 1, white catfish
Fish, also known as baiji fish, kisses the minister. There are many kinds of special snacks in Dalian, including 13 in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River alone. Catfish produced in Langshan Yangtze River, Nantong is a rare and precious species in the Yangtze River, with hidden red in white, few thorns and tender meat. Amin Yang Shen thinks baiji has both the beauty of puffer fish and shad, and is non-toxic and stingless. In his words, it was pink and white, beautiful, the beauty of the stone was beyond words, and the water sheep was ripe. This dish has been included in China's famous dishes and China's cooking dictionary.
12, cooking seed fish
Seed fish, also known as anchovies, is one of the local specialties in Nantong. The shape of anchovies is similar to that of swordfish, and their body length exceeds 10 cm. They are called seed fish because of their thin meat and rich seeds. From long summer to big summer, anchovies migrated from Lv Songyang to the Yangtze River estuary to lay eggs, resulting in fishing season. Female anchovies have a lot of red eggs in their bellies, and nutritious snacks are very delicious. Its cooking method is to wash the fish and fry them until they are brown, that is, the special snacks will be added to the Shanghai special snacks. At this time, the bones are crisp, the meat is tender and the seeds are fresh, and the seasoning is added, which is worthy of being a dining table. Canned anchovies are good for travel and gifts to relatives and friends.
13, Haimen Fresh Soup Mutton
Haimen goat is a famous fat and delicious snack in Nanjing, and Haimen mutton soup is famous in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Local chefs choose castrated fat goats as raw materials and make them through unique cooking. They are tender and juicy, delicious, low in lean meat, low in fat, easy to digest and light in smell, and have the functions of warming the middle warmer, tonifying deficiency, appetizing and keeping fit. Mutton soup is made in winter, and it can be mixed with sweet noodle sauce and dipped in pepper to eat cold; It can also be cooked with vermicelli, green vegetables and original soup; You can also add soy sauce, rock sugar and a little sheep oil to stew. The three ways of eating have different tastes, similarities and differences, differences and similarities, which are wonderful.
14, roasted bamboo chicken with taro
Taro is a special snack of perennial leguminous plants in Xi 'an, and it is named because of its elegant fragrance. Taro is known as the king of vegetarian dishes. Jia Baoyu recorded that taro was a fruit in the nineteenth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, which shows that it is delicious and can be eaten for a long time. Haimen and Qidong in Nantong still retain the tradition of planting taro. Bamboo chicken is a kind of wild bird, which lives in bamboo forests in mountainous areas. Commonly known as the cock-headed stork, it looks a bit like a pheasant. Its feathers are chestnut with white spots. It likes pecking bamboo shoots and moths, and the meat is delicious. Nantong people burn bamboo chicken and taro together, which is crispy and delicious, and it is a rare and precious game.
15, sweet and sour yellow croaker
Pseudosciaena crocea produced in Lvsi Fishing Ground is one of the oldest and most important economic fish in China. Yellow croaker contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, calcium, money and other nutrients. Pseudosciaena crocea gum is an advanced nutritional supplement. There are many ways to eat yellow croaker, such as braising in soy sauce, stewing soup, steaming and steaming. Sweet and sour yellow croaker is a famous dish in Nantong.
16, roasted eel
Eel, a special fish with both salty and fresh water, is a peculiar river-sea migratory type. Eel meat is fine, tender, smooth and fat, and it is rich in vitamins and amino acids. It is not only delicious, but also has the medicinal function of tonifying deficiency and strengthening yang. There are many eel farms in Nantong, and the products are mainly exported. The local roasted eel is full of color and flavor, which can be used as a good product for state banquets, tourism and gifts to relatives and friends.
17, money radish cake
Money radish cake was created in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1970s, Nantong pastry chef improved it according to Suiyuan Food List, and changed the pastry into special snacks and oily noodles fried with shredded radish in thin water, which made the finished product harmonious and pleasing in color, similar to money, clear in grain, crisp in skin and fragrant in stuffing. Nantong Money Radish Cake has been included in China Snacks and Encyclopedia of China.