There are many snacks in Nanjing, such as duck blood soup, small wonton, dried silk and sesame seed cake, small boiled noodles, marinated eggs, glutinous rice lotus root, spiced quail eggs, plum blossom cake, sweet-scented osmanthus taro seedlings, beef vermicelli soup, steamed dumplings with mushrooms, marinated chicken juice and fried snails. If you want to eat special food, go to Confucius Temple, Qinhuai people's house, and go to Yat Sen Lou, and serve them one by one in a delicate small dish and bowl. It's so delicate that you can taste 36 and 72 snacks at a time. It's really an enjoyable thing. Nanjing does not depend on the mountain or the sea, and has no special products. However, it has made a group of satisfied diners with the most common materials, the means of turning decay into magic and the unique meticulous thoughts of Jiangnan people. Perhaps this is the essence of Nanjing snacks.
duck blood soup
Nanjing people like to eat ducks, the most common ones are salted duck, duck head, duck neck, duck gizzard, duck wings and duck feet, all of which are good things.
Small wonton
is divided into north and south factions. The southern faction is often made by Suzhou people, with thin skin and little stuffing. The soup is exquisite, fresh and not greasy with shrimp skin and mustard tuber. There is also a large wonton wrapped with shepherd's purse and meat.
Dried silk and sesame seed cake
Nanjing people like to eat many kinds of snacks. Such as steamed buns, Lamian Noodles, pancakes, scallion cakes, tofu waterlogging, noodle soup dumplings, vegetable bags, sesame cakes with butter, sweet bean paste buns, dried chicken noodles, spring rolls, sesame cakes, beef soup, steamed dumplings, pressed noodles, crab roe noodles, long fish noodles, beef pot stickers, dried braised pork, stewed tea eggs, and sugar porridge lotus root. Among them, dried silk and sesame seed cake are one of Nanjing people's favorite popular foods. Citizens can't live without it, and dignitaries often use it to change their tastes. Therefore, all the restaurants in Nanjing were engaged in dried silk and baked cakes. When you go to a teahouse to eat, you always serve dried silk before eating anything else. There is no teahouse that specializes in green tea.
Nanjing dried silk is a unique method of making. Those tender but not old, dry but not broken dried silk are specially made by tofu shop, with fine shreds, sesame oil fragrance and excellent soy sauce (locally called "autumn sauce").
Small boiled noodles
Small boiled noodles are characterized by no soy sauce and light taste, and the ingredients and soup inside are more critical. The best meat noodles are noodles with skin and belly, which are rich in soup, similar to chowder. At least there are 1 kinds of things, such as vegetables, fungus, skin and belly, pork liver, tomatoes, quail eggs, sausages, shredded pork ...
Dried pork and salted eggs
Nanjing snacks, dried pork and salted tea eggs. Returned brine is a thin slice of fried tofu cooked with water. Put a handful of soybean sprouts in the pot to get its subtle fragrance and umami taste. Freshness is the most important thing in taking the raw materials of marinated tea eggs, and the most important thing is "firstborn eggs". Shopkeepers wash, cook and shell fresh eggs, and make a few shallow cuts on the egg whites to make them smell good. Cook them with slow fire and not for too short a time.
porridge lotus root
It is another common food in Nanjing snacks in the past. At night, after the cries of fried rice, boiled water, fried Yuanxiao, dingdong jiaozi and tea eggs,
specialty-Pu Cai
specialty-Nanjing dried salted duck specialty-Liuhe beef breast.