Salted duck, also called osmanthus duck, is a famous specialty of Nanjing and a Chinese geographical indication product. Because Nanjing is nicknamed "Jinling", it is also called "Jinling Salted Duck". It has a long-standing reputation and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Nanjing has a long history of producing salted duck and has accumulated rich production experience. The produced salted duck has tender skin, white meat, fat but not greasy taste, and is fragrant, crispy and tender. The salted duck made around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom, has the best color and taste, and is called sweet-scented osmanthus duck.

Osmanthus duck is a famous specialty of Nanjing. It has a long-standing reputation and is said to have been fragrant for more than 2,500 years. The duck skin is white and the meat is tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and has the characteristics of fragrant, crispy and tender. The salted duck around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year has the best color and taste because the duck is made during the season when the osmanthus is in bloom, so it is famously known as: osmanthus duck.

"Baimen Cookbook" records: "In the August period of Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that the meat has the fragrance of osmanthus." Osmanthus duck is "clear and purposeful, and you will never tire of eating it for a long time." It is the following Excellent wine. It seems that it has become a secular etiquette to go to the street to buy a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus duck during the holidays or when guests come to your home on weekdays when thousands of houses are lit up at night.

The origin of salted duck

Salted duck is a very famous snack in Nanjing. It is said that this kind of duck is also related to Qianlong. During the Qianlong period, Qianlong went to Jiangnan and ordered roast duck from a restaurant. The chef quickly brought in a batch of ducks. When I came back in the afternoon, I found that all the ducks were dead. It turned out that the duck farmer's child was too naughty and used salt to tease the ducks. In the end, the duck was salted to death. But Qianlong was coming soon, and it was too late to find another batch of ducks. If the roast duck couldn't be cooked, it would lose its head, so the chef had to cook the ducks (the salt content was too high, and the barbecue would explode). After Qianlong ate it, he expressed that it was "very much appreciated by me" and gave him the name "Salt Water Duck". From then on, this Nanjing famous food became popular.