Xiaolongbao: eat Xiaolongbao pay attention to the soup, to do when the soup condensed into a transparent solid gel, chopped up and mixed in, the heat of a steam, all melted into the soup. The skin of a good xiao long bao is as thin as paper, and it is not broken when it is lifted. Carefully raised, placed in a bowl of vinegar, aimed at the top of a suction, the delicious soup into the belly. But not in a hurry, or it will burn, and then slowly enjoy the contents. That's why Nanjing people eat xiaolongbao and have a song, "gently move, slowly lift, first open the window, then drink the soup".
Boiled dry silk: Nanjing dry silk is a unique set of production methods different from other cities. Those tender and not old, dry and not crumbled dry silk, are specially made for the tofu store. The tofu is cut into thin slices, cooked with various soups, mixed with sesame oil and superior soy sauce, which is refreshing and has a long aftertaste
Nanjing Top Ten Specialty Snacks (3): Beef Pot Stickers
Beef Pot Stickers: Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with plenty of filling and juicy. Salty and sweet is the biggest feature of Nanjing beef pot stickers. Because of the juiciness, old customers have used the soup dumplings to eat the pot stickers. The first bite big juice will leak; bite fierce juice will spray; bite too small and not hidden!
Nanjing top ten snacks (four): duck blood fans
Nanjing top ten snacks (five): Ruyi back to the brine dry
Ruyi back to the brine dry: Nanjing has a long history, Nanjing people are willing to put all kinds of snacks and history on the side. Take this ordinary back to the brine dry, but also with the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang involved in the connection. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, tired of eating the palace delicacies, one day out of the palace in microdress, in the street to see a snack store fried oil tofu fruit, fragrant, golden color, can not help but appetite. He took out a silver ingot to shopkeepers will be tofu fruit processing a bowl for him to enjoy. Shopkeepers see him as a rich gentleman, immediately put the tofu fruit into the chicken soup pot, with a small amount of soybean sprouts and seasonings with cooking, cooking to the tofu fruit soft and flavorful to send, Zhu Yuanzhang ate and praised. From then on, oil tofu was popular for a while, and has been passed down to this day. Because the Nanjing people often add bean sprouts in the firing, and its shape is very much like the ancient jade jade so it is called Ruyi back to brine dry.
Nanjing top ten snacks (six): assorted tofu waterlogged
Assorted tofu waterlogged: tofu waterlogged, also known as tofu brain, tofu flower, the Nanjing dialect is also known as "are not old". This snack is available throughout the country, but Nanjing's tofu waterlogged and other places are not quite the same, in addition to the same color white as jade. Fresh and refreshing, Nanjing's tofu flood pay attention to a condiment, supplemented by shrimp, squash, fungus, green onions, spicy oil, sesame oil and other more than ten kinds of condiments, not only is the color beautiful, taste is mellow, thick, fragrant, fresh, salty and light, Xin Pen hand school ferocious escape form Ding D flaw ┤shun pregnant] said to buy enzyme goblet eight捣ā保 庖壞坏诙垢 哉飧e銎邮档男]陨弦驳玫搅搜橹ぃ壕菟担 垢 哉馔嬉眨 昵崛顺粤私∧圆鼓裕 According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, Qin Dashi, a poor man living in the alley next to Jinshajing in the south of the city, because of his family's poverty, read late into the night every day, his mother used soybeans with red currant rice, red dates cooked, in a small bowl, the beans, with a red date added on top of the beans to give him to eat, and to encourage him to study well, and in the future, good to win the scholar. Later, Qin Da Shi won the first prize, the matter spread, the first prize beans will be famous. Some vendors take advantage of this mentality of the students, in the father of the temple near the tribute to sell the scholar beans, lining the mouth of the colorful saying "eat the scholar beans, good in the scholar Lang". Scholar beans is actually five spice beans, and five spice eggs, five spice beans inlet fragrance, salty-sweet soft tender, savor, interesting, due to the cooking taste, general color was rosewood color, the entrance is elastic, rich in aroma, so that people eat up can not stop talking about it.
Nanjing top ten snacks (eight): salt water duck / duck head
Salt water duck / duck head: to Nanjing is not to eat salt water duck. Nanjing duck deep, and even some people say that Nanjing people have a grudge against ducks in previous generations. Regardless of this rumor has no basis, but Nanjing is known as "duck" is a real name. Salt water duck is a famous specialty of Nanjing, a long reputation, it is said that so far there has been more than a thousand years of history. Nanjing salt water duck skin white meat tender, fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious, with fragrant, crispy, tender characteristics. Every year before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the best color and taste of the brine duck, because the duck is made in the season of osmanthus flowers blooming, so it is beautifully named: osmanthus duck. The White Gate Recipes recorded: "Jinling August period, salt water duck is the most famous, everyone thought that the meat inside the fragrance of osmanthus also." On New Year's holidays or weekdays at home to guests, on the street to chop a bowl of salt water duck, seems to have become a secular ritual in Nanjing. It is also eat duck eat too much, Nanjing people also turned waste into treasure will be duck head made into a delicious snack. Duck head whether braised or soaked in sauce, or salt water, are hanging water on the earth's delicious. Buy three or five duck head, and then a bottle of beer, savor slowly nibble, that comfortable ah ......
Nanjing top ten snacks (nine): steamed dumplings
Steamed dumplings: steamed dumplings in fact, all over the country, but Nanjing steamed dumplings are unique, not only the shape of the exquisite, the taste is known for its freshness, a bit of grease, a bit not to achieve the effect of refreshing! A little bit of oil and grease will not achieve the effect of refreshing. Steamed mushroom dumplings are stuffed with fresh pork and mushrooms, plus delicious mushroom juice, and after steaming, the meat is tender and juicy, and when you gently inhale it, a strong freshness permeates your mouth.
Nanjing top ten snacks (10): cake dumplings
Cake dumplings: the people of Jiangnan sweet, so the traditional cake dumplings store in Nanjing is still a very good market. Nanjing people eat sweets pay attention to sweet but not evil, glutinous but not sticky, known as the dessert of the top. In addition, the light taste is not good, the shape of the color and lustre to be outstanding, so most of the Nanjing cake dumplings delicate and small, colorful, sweet and fluffy mouth, fragrant cavity, and then a pot of good green tea, it is the top of the mouth good fortune!
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