The top ten must-eat foods in Nanjing are: 1. Jinling salted duck, 2. Tangbao, 3. Duck blood vermicelli soup, 4. Nanjing roast duck, 5. American porridge of the Republic of China, 6. Assorted tofu waterlogging, 7. Small wonton, 8. Dried shredded pork, 9. Plum blossom cake, 1. Sweet-scented osmanthus sugar taro seedlings.

Jinling salted duck

Nanjing is called "Duck Capital" but it is worthy of the name. It is said that it has a history of more than 1 years. Salted duck is a famous specialty in Nanjing, one of the representatives of Jinling cuisine, also known as osmanthus duck, and a geographical indication product in China. The valley-fed ducks produced in Nanjing are white in fat and tender in meat, and they have been famous in the whole province since the Song Dynasty.

The salted duck is cooked at low temperature. After cooking for about an hour, the tenderness of the salted duck reaches a certain level. The production technology of Jinling salted duck is very ingenious and has a long history. In the long-term development process, this dish has accumulated a lot of experience in production. Salted duck skin is white and tender, fat but not greasy, delicious, fragrant, crisp and tender, which definitely makes you want to eat after eating it.

Sweet-scented osmanthus sweet potato seedlings

This is a famous traditional dessert in Nanjing, and it also belongs to Jinling cuisine. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, the faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers wafts everywhere in Nanjing, which happens to be the ripe season for taro.

So industrious women in Nanjing picked sweet-scented osmanthus and pickled it with sugar, which is called "osmanthus pulp". Fresh taro seedlings are selected, peeled after steaming, and added with special osmanthus syrup. When the taro seedlings are soft and rotten, lotus root starch is added. The addition of lotus root starch will make the sugar taro seedlings look thick and delicious, smooth and refreshing, sweet and tender, and the soup is sweet. After eating, the lips and teeth will remain fragrant.