Meiyuan Restaurant of Jinling Hotel: After all, it is a "second to none" hotel. Its antique decoration reveals "the demeanor of an old gentleman", and you can feel "the elegance and dignity of history" in it. The waiter is also "warm and thoughtful". Meiyuan Restaurant focuses on "Authentic Huaiyang Cuisine", with rich varieties, excellent materials, exquisite products and light taste. In particular, salted duck is famous for its extremely tender meat, distinct fat and sweet, and moderate salty. Although the price is "expensive", it is "value for money".

Nanjing Tourism Food Raiders II: Special Snacks and Local Cuisine

Easy as going back to Gan Lu

Easy as going back to Gan Lu

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 made the shopkeeper cook a bowl of ruyi for him to enjoy. Seeing that he was a rich gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put Ruyi back into the chicken soup pot and cooked it with a small amount of bean sprouts and seasonings until the tofu was soft and tender. 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.

Nanjing Tourism Food Raiders III: Food Street, Food Plaza

Shiziqiao food street

Lion Bridge Pedestrian Food Street is located in the middle section of Hunan Road in Nanjing, with a total length of 330m and a width of 12- 16m. The whole line is paved with granite and underground, and public facilities such as colored landscape dry fountains, flower pots, landscape street lamps, leisure chairs and public telephone booths are built. All the residential buildings along the street are European. And erected a "99" Lion Arch, which became the landmark building of Lion Bridge. You can eat all kinds of Nanjing cuisine here, and there are also various shops nearby.

The following are recommended specialties in Nanjing:

Nanjing Yayao

Nanjing cuisine-Jinling roast duck

Nanjing's duck-making technology has a long reputation, which was recorded as early as 1400 years ago in the Southern Dynasties. Nanjing's duck dishes are famous all over the country. Besides Jinling roast duck, salted duck, roast duck, Jinling sauce duck, crispy duck, eight-treasure pearl duck and salted duck gizzard also have their own characteristics.

Qinhuai bajue

The so-called "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai" refers to the sixteen famous points of the eight snack bars in Nanjing:

Five-spice tea eggs and five-spice beans in Kuiguang Pavilion; Crab shell yellow sesame seed cake and Kaiyang dried silk in Yongheyuan;

Duck oil cake and sesame oil dried silk in Qifangge; Liu Fengju's scallion cake and tofu;

Assorted rice bags and shredded chicken noodles in Qifangge; Jiang's beef pot stickers and beef soup;

The thin bag of jiaozi and red soup fried fish noodles in Zhanyuan noodle restaurant; Five-color cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing jiaozi from Lianhu Pastry Group Store.

Some of these stores have closed down, and some stores are just so good. Don't be superstitious. Many restaurants in Confucius Temple have snack packages, and you can taste the eight wonders of Qinhuai at one time, such as the snack package of Qifangting, which is divided into 50 yuan and

80 yuan two kinds. You can also go to Qinhuai family, VIP building, Zhuangyuan building and other large restaurants to taste, which can guarantee the taste, but the price should be above 100 yuan.

Duck blood fan

In Nanjing, there are many stalls selling duck blood soup.

Duck blood soup

The shrewd stall owner cooked the duck blood in advance, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pot. When he saw the tourists coming, he fished out the duck blood and put it in a white porcelain bowl, then poured a spoonful of hot soup, dropped a few drops of sesame oil, sprinkled a pinch of dried shrimp, duck liver and duck casing, and ordered a pinch of coriander. Guests who like spicy food can also add some Chili oil or pepper, which is fragrant and spicy and delicious.

Nanjing dried silk

Nanjing dried silk

"Nanjing Dried Silk" has a unique production method different from other cities. Those tender but not old, dry but not broken dried silk are specially made in tofu shop. Tofu is cut into filaments, boiled with various soups, and served with sesame oil and superior soy sauce (locally called "three-volt autumn" soy sauce), which is refreshing and has a long aftertaste.

Variety: There are several kinds of Nanjing dried silk, such as vegetarian soup and vegetarian pork. Since the Republic of China, new varieties have been increasing. There are dried salted duck and Kaiyang in the mosque. There are dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, dried crab roe and dried chicken in the meat restaurant.

dried salted duck

dried salted duck

Dried salted duck is salted with brine, which can be divided into two types: salted duck and spring salted duck. Because its meat is tender and firm, like a plate, it is named dried salted duck.

History: Nanjing salted duck is famous at home and abroad. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were "ancient academies, glass pagodas, dark satin and salted ducks" circulating in Nanjing. Folk songs show that Nanjing salted duck has long been famous. The production technology of Nanjing salted duck has a history of more than 600 years. In Qing dynasty, local officials always chose new salted duck with better quality to pay tribute to the royal family, so it was also called "tribute duck". Court officials exchanged salted duck as a gift when they visited each other, so they were also called "official salted duck".

The above is the recommendation of Nanjing specialty food. I hope my friends can taste authentic Nanjing cuisine in Nanjing.