Saying that duck blood vermicelli soup is a flavorful snack in Nanjing, I'm afraid that no one doubts; but the duck blood vermicelli soup as Nanjing's "local specialties", may cause controversy. In recent years, the duck blood vermicelli soup "original" is the Nanjing people or Zhenjiang people's debate, in the online and folk rising, clamor.

It is said that the duck blood vermicelli soup was first created by Mei Ming, a Zhenjiang scholar, whose duck blood vermicelli soup was once praised by Jiang Zhixiang, the first editor-in-chief of the late Qing Dynasty's "Declaration," in a poem "Zhenjiang Mei Weng good diet, purple sand, two million boiled silver wire. A thousand jade ribbons are wrapped around the cuirass, and the soup is white and ugly in the mid-autumn moon. A scholar in cloth is a gourmand, who lives for food but not for poetry. If you want to praise Ming Weng's divine hand, you should know that the duck is warm in the spring river." This record can be said to be the earliest documented record of duck blood vermicelli soup.