Nanjing Food

Nanjing cuisine is called "Jingsu cuisine", and the chefs call themselves "Jingsu gang".

Nanjing’s food is famous for its Jingsu cuisine (Jinling cuisine) and Halal cuisine. The four famous dishes of Jinling cuisine include squirrel fish, egg shaomai, beauty liver, and anchovy shrimp. Well-known restaurants that prepare Jinling cuisine include Luliuju Restaurant and Ma Xiangxing Restaurant.

Since Nanjing people love to eat ducks and geese, the most popular foods in Nanjing are various foods made from ducks and geese, including sweet-scented osmanthus salted duck, Nanjing salted duck, duck blood vermicelli soup, dried duck gizzards, Dongshan Roast goose and so on.

Another characteristic of Nanjing people’s diet is the popularity of various wild vegetables, including artemisia, chrysanthemum brain, malan head, wolfberry head, shepherd’s purse, purslane, goose sausage, toon head (also known as Chinese toon head) For dry eight fresh).

In addition, there are the so-called eight delicacies of water, which refer to fish, water chestnut, lotus root, water melon, wild rice, chicken head fruit, lotus root, and cress.

Nanjing also has a wide variety of snacks, including Wang eggs, live beads, duck blood vermicelli soup, beef vermicelli soup, duck fat crispy sesame cakes, Kaiyang dried shreds, chicken sauce braised dried eggs, braised tea eggs, Yin Chicken soup dumplings, glutinous rice lotus root, spiced quail eggs, plum blossom cake, sweet-scented osmanthus and taro seedlings, tofu curd, sweet-scented osmanthus red bean yuanxiao, jelly, spiced beans and so on.

The main gathering places for snacks in Nanjing include Confucius Temple, Lion Bridge (near Hunan Road), Gan Family Courtyard, etc. Among them, Qifang Pavilion, Kuiguang Pavilion, Jiang Youji, and Yonghe in the Confucius Temple area Yuanyuan and Liufengju are both famous traditional snack shops in Nanjing, and their specialty snacks are called "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai". Liu Changxing Noodle House is a famous noodle restaurant in Nanjing. The century-old Han Fuxing is a famous salted duck and salted duck restaurant in Nanjing.

Nanjing duck dishes

Nanjing’s duck-making technology has a long-standing reputation and was recorded as early as the Southern Dynasties more than 1,400 years ago. Nanjing's duck dishes are famous throughout the country. In addition to Jinling roast duck, there are also salted duck, salted duck, roast duck, Jinling sauce duck, crispy duck, eight-treasure pearl duck, salted duck gizzards, Jinling sliced ??duck, duck blood vermicelli soup, etc. Each has its own characteristics.

The Eight Wonders of Qinhuai

The Eight Wonders of Qinhuai

The so-called "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai" refer to the sixteen famous dishes of the eight snack restaurants in Beijing:

Kuiguang Pavilion’s five-spice tea eggs and five-spice beans;

Yongheyuan’s crab shell yellow sesame cakes and dried shreds;

Qifang Pavilion’s duck fat crispy sesame cakes and sesame oil Dried shredded silk;

Scallion pancakes and tofu naoer from Liufengju;

Assorted vegetable buns and shredded chicken noodles from Qifangge;

Jiang Youji Beef pot stickers and beef soup;

Thin-skin dumplings and fried fish noodles in red soup at Zhanyuan Noodle House;

Five-color cakes and osmanthus-filled dumplings at Lianhu Cake Ball Shop< /p>

Special snacks

Dashiba Street in Confucius Temple and Lion Bridge on Hunan Road are famous food streets. There are many special snacks, such as aftertaste duck blood vermicelli, lion head from Lion King Palace, Yin Chicken soup dumplings, Lianhu cake shop, "Unforgettable" pickled fish, Luliuju, etc. In addition, many gourmet restaurants scattered around Xinjiekou and Nanda are also recommended by many netizens. Nanjing snacks are famous throughout the country.

Other snacks

Xiaolongbao, boiled dried shredded noodles, duck blood vermicelli, Ruyi Braised Dried Dried Tofu, assorted tofu, Zhuangyuan Bean, salted duck, steamed dumplings, Wang eggs, stinky tofu , live beads, Nannong roasted chicken, sugar taro seedlings, etc.