Salted duck/duck head: You can't go to Nanjing without eating salted duck. Nanjing people love ducks so much that some people even say that Nanjing people had a grudge against ducks before. Whether this rumor is based or not, Nanjing is called "Duck Capital" but it is a real name. Salted duck is a famous specialty in Nanjing and has a long-standing reputation. It is said that it has a history of 1000 years. Nanjing salted duck skin is white and tender, fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious, with the characteristics of fragrance, crispness and tenderness.
The salted duck around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year has the best color and taste, because the duck is made in the season when osmanthus is in full bloom, so it is called "osmanthus duck". "White Door Recipe" records: "In August in Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that there is osmanthus fragrance in the meat." Every holiday or working day, it seems to have become a secular etiquette for tourists from home to chop a bowl of salted duck on the street.
It is also because of eating too many ducks that Nanjing people turn waste into treasure and make duck heads into delicious snacks. Duck head, whether braised in soy sauce, soaked in soy sauce or soaked in salt water, is delicious. Buy three or five duck heads and a bottle of beer. Taste carefully and chew slowly. That's very comfortable ...
Zhuangyuandou/spiced egg: Zhuangyuandou is one of the special snacks of Nanjing Confucius Temple. According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Dashi, a poor scholar who lived in an alley next to Jinsha well in the south of the city, studied until late at night every day because of his poor family. His mother cooked beans with Redmi and red dates, put the beans in a small bowl and gave him a red date to eat, encouraging him to study hard and win the top prize in the future. Later, Qin Dashi won the first prize, the story spread, and the champion fight became famous.
Some vendors take advantage of students' psychology to sell Zhuangyuan beans near Gong Yuan, the father-son temple, and say with the lining that "if you eat Zhuangyuan beans, you will be the champion". Zhuangyuan bean is actually spiced bean. Spiced beans, like spiced eggs, taste fragrant, salty, sweet and tender, and are very interesting to eat. Because it is cooked and eaten, it is generally rosewood color, elastic and fragrant, so it makes people want to stop eating.
Assorted bean curd stains: Bean curd stains are also called bean curd brain and bean curd flower, and in Nanjing dialect, they are also called "none is old". This snack is found all over the country, but the tofu stains in Nanjing are not quite the same as those in other places, except as white as jade. Nanjing tofu stains are not only fragrant and refreshing, but also pay attention to one kind of seasoning, supplemented by more than ten kinds of seasonings such as shrimp, mustard tuber, fungus, chopped green onion, spicy oil and sesame oil. It is not only gorgeous in color, but also mellow, thick, fragrant, fresh and salty, spicy and full of flavor. Nanjing people eat snacks well, which has also been verified in this simple snack: it is said that young people eat tofu stains to strengthen their brains, while old people eat tofu stains to prolong their lives. In order to please people, the store also added mixed rice to it. What does this mean? The future is bright, hehe.
Ruyi Huilujan: Nanjing has a long history, and Nanjing people are willing to contact all kinds of snacks and history. Take this ordinary salt water drying for example, it is also associated with Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, he was tired of eating the delicacies in the palace. One day, he went out of the palace incognito and saw a snack bar frying tofu in the street. The smell was overflowing, the color was golden, and his appetite increased greatly. He took out a silver ingot and asked the shopkeeper to process a bowl of tofu fruit for him to enjoy.
Seeing that he was a rich gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the tofu into the chicken soup pot and cooked it with a small amount of bean sprouts and seasonings until the tofu was soft and tender, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised it again and again after eating it. Since then, oily tofu has been all the rage and spread to this day. Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts when firing, its shape is very similar to the jade ruyi in ancient jade articles, so it is called ruyi drying.