The top ten must-eat delicacies in Nanjing include salted duck, beef pot stickers, duck blood vermicelli soup, sweet-scented osmanthus and taro sprouts, assorted tofu dumplings, red bean rice dumplings stuffed with wine, steamed dumplings, Zhuangyuan beans, Nanjing stinky tofu and Nanjing dry shreds.

1. Salted duck Salted duck, also called sweet-scented osmanthus duck, is a traditional delicacy in Nanjing.

It is said that during the Song Dynasty, Nanjing's ducks were famous throughout the province.

Jinling Salted Duck appeared after the Ming Dynasty established Jinling as its capital.

It was used as a palace tribute in the Qing Dynasty.

2. Beef pot stickers Beef pot stickers in Nanjing are also famous.

Shaped like a dumpling, but slightly more elongated.

Moreover, the beef pot stickers here are combined with the Nanjing Xiao Long Bao method. The filling is so juicy that the juice will flow out when you take a bite.

Moreover, this kind of pot sticker is soft on the top and crispy on the bottom. The beef filling is delicious and has a unique flavor.

3. Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup Nanjing people have been particularly fond of duck since ancient times. Duck-eating has a history of 1,400 years.

According to legend, during the Qing Dynasty, a Nanjing man killed a duck and was reluctant to throw away the blood, so he collected its blood in a small bowl.

Unexpectedly, the fan fell in, and he had no choice but to boil the duck blood with the fan.

In this way, duck blood vermicelli soup was born.

Characteristics are: mild taste, fresh and smooth.

4. Sweet-scented osmanthus and taro seedlings. This is a famous traditional dessert in Nanjing and also belongs to Jinling cuisine.

Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, Nanjing is filled with the faint fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, which happens to be the season when taro is ripe.

So the hard-working women in Nanjing picked the sweet-scented osmanthus and marinated it with sugar, which was called "osmanthus slurry".

Use fresh taro sprouts, steam them and then peel them. Add special osmanthus syrup and slowly simmer them in a large pot. When the taro sprouts are almost soft and rotten, add lotus root starch. The addition of lotus root starch will make the sugar taro sprouts look thick and delicious.

It tastes smooth and refreshing, sweet and soft, and the soup is sweet, leaving a fragrance on your lips and teeth after eating.

5. Assorted tofu pudding. Tofu pudding is also called tofu nao or tofu pudding.

Tofu puffs are available all over the country, but Nanjing’s tofu puffs are different from those in other places. Nanjing’s tofu puffs have more condiments. Generally, there are more than ten kinds of spices such as shrimp, mustard, fungus, chopped green onion, spicy oil, sesame oil, etc.

, not only is the color better-looking than what we usually eat, but the taste is more fragrant, fresh, salty, etc., making it delicious.

6. Red bean and fermented rice dumplings. Adzuki bean and fermented rice dumplings are a special snack and dessert in Nanjing. They taste really good. The red beans are boiled very well and have a melt-in-your-mouth feeling. They are paired with glutinous rice dumplings and added with fermented rice.

It is very delicious. Friends who like desserts should not miss it. It can be used as breakfast or as a dessert after a meal, both are very good.

7. Xiao Long Bao The most important thing about Nanjing Xiao Long Bao is its soup. The skin of a good Xiao Long Bao is as thin as paper. When you lift it up, you can see the transparent liquid inside. This is because the soup stock must be condensed when making Xiao Long Bao.

Form into transparent solid tape, chop into pieces and mix in the stuffing.

Nanjing people also wrote a song specifically for eating Xiao Long Bao: "Move gently, lift slowly, open the window first, then drink the soup."

8. Zhuangyuan Bean Zhuangyuan Bean is one of the specialty snacks of Nanjing Confucius Temple.

It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a poor scholar named Qin lived in an alley next to the Jinsha Well in the south of the city. Because of his poor family, he studied until late at night every day. His mother cooked the soybeans with red yeast rice and red dates, and put the beans in a small bowl.

Add a red date to him and encourage him to study hard and win the top prize in the future.

Later, Master Qin won the first prize, and this matter spread, and the first prize bean became famous.

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Some vendors took advantage of this mentality of students and sold Zhuangyuan beans near the Gongyuan of Confucius Temple. They said, "If you eat Zhuangyuan beans, you will win the Zhuangyuanlang".

9. Nanjing Stinky Tofu Nanjing Stinky Tofu is a simple home-cooked dish. The main ingredients are 1 piece of Nanjing Braised Stinky Tofu, a little minced meat, dried chili peppers, minced onion, ginger and garlic, appropriate seasonings, 1 tsp of refined salt, and appropriate amount of stock.

10. Nanjing dried silk Nanjing dried silk has a unique production method that is different from other cities.

Those tender but not old, dry but not broken shreds are all specially made by the tofu shop.

Cut the tofu into thin strips, cook it with various soups, and mix it with fragrant sesame oil and high-quality soy sauce. It has a refreshing taste and a long aftertaste.