Nanjing is a famous historical and cultural city.

In addition to attractions, there are also many delicious foods.

When you come to Nanjing, you must experience Nanjing’s food culture.

Recommended stores to try include Nanjing Soup Dumplings, Li Ji Halal Restaurant, Nanjing Big Brand Store, Zheng Xiao Biscuits, etc.

Each has its own flavor and endless aftertaste, making people want to stop.

1. Nanjing Soup Dumplings Xu Jianping’s soup dumplings are on par with Ji Ming’s soup dumplings.

Xu Jianping's taste is sweeter.

Chicken crow glutinous rice balls are very famous and taste equally delicious.

A bowl of steaming hot soup dumplings was brought to the table. The thin, almost transparent skin was carefully picked up, and the soup filled the mouth, sweet but not greasy.

Generally, Xiao Long Bao consists of red bean glutinous rice balls and sweet taro sprouts.

Almost every store has these two types of soup, and the recipes are roughly the same.

A century-old store is better than details.

2. Li Ji Halal Restaurant Li Ji Halal Restaurant is the most representative halal snack in Nanjing and the favorite time-honored pot sticker shop among locals.

Order the beef pot stickers.

The pot stickers are all freshly packed.

The filling is big and the skin is thin.

Be careful of the soup scalding your mouth.

Affordable.

You can pick up your tickets after ordering.

Usually, there are a lot of people.

If you don’t want to queue, you can take it away.

Beef pot stickers, I can’t tell anymore, it’s five servings, but it’s quite filling.

There was a long queue outside the door early in the morning.

There must be at least dozens of pots in each pot, and it is common for the old aunt to make a round meal by herself.

The bottom of the pot is fried and crispy, and the beef filling soup is almost as good as the soup dumplings.

3. Nanjing Dai Pai Dong Nanjing Dai Pai Dong is a classic hotel brand with Nanjing’s unique cuisine.

It has many branches and is very popular.

The interior of the store is antique, and the old man wearing a long gown at the door is very kind.

Here, you can eat fresh lion heads, juicy and delicious roast duck soup dumplings, and a bowl of sweet and glutinous taro sprouts.

The famous snack can be eaten in one sitting.

It doesn't open until eleven in the morning.

It is recommended to queue online first.

You can also follow WeChat to order food in advance, which is very convenient.

Nanjing's big brand food stalls have opened branches in many provinces across the country, but Nanjing locals still recommend Nanjing's big brand food stalls first when recommending food places.

Roast duck, Meiling porridge, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, glutinous rice and lotus root, stewed lion’s head, I’ve had it many times.

Roast duck is the specialty of Nanjing Dapai Dong.

It's still sweet, and the meat is firm and satisfying.

According to legend, aged porridge was made by the chef of Soong Meiling’s family using soy milk, glutinous rice, japonica rice, yam, lily, wolfberry, and rock sugar.

Very exquisite and stunning!

The glutinous lotus root was okay, but the jade-belted loofah was a bit greasy as a green vegetable.

4. There are also many shops of Xiao Zhengsu Shaobing and Zheng Xiaosu Biscuit.

This family near Confucius Temple looks desperate from a distance.

While queuing up, I often heard the order 50 green onions and 50 black sesame seeds.

Only tourists buy one or two to try out.

My aunt in line also shared her experience: every morning it is heated in the microwave and it’s like fresh out of the oven!

5. Lianhu Cake Shop is the oldest store in Confucius Temple and is famous for its Soviet-style desserts.

Osmanthus Lantern Festival and five-color cake dumplings were also rated as "Eight Specialty Snacks of Qinhuai" by the Nanjing Qinhuai District Snack Research Association, and are deeply loved by the people of Nanjing.

An old shop in Confucius Temple, the five-color cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes are so rich that two people can’t finish them.

The sugar taro sprouts are really different from other stores. They are not so sweet and the large pieces of taro are also very tempting.

6. Qifangge Qifangting, founded in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, is an authentic time-honored halal restaurant.

Among the "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai", Qifangge's duck cakes, dried sesame oil, mixed rice buns, and shredded chicken noodles occupy four seats.

The restaurant is decorated in an antique style.

The first floor is a takeout window, a place to eat Nanjing snacks, and the second floor is a place to eat.

You can see the other side of the Qinhuai River from the window, and the scenery is good.

Brother Fang has snacks, vacuum salted duck for takeaway, and dinner on the second floor.

We had already had dinner before going to Confucius Temple, so we only tried duck fat sesame cakes.