When it comes to Ningbo, we have to say that Ningbo people have a business acumen. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the present, Ningbo business gangs have always been very active.

Of course, there are also a wide variety of local snacks run by Ningbo people, but unfortunately many of them have disappeared.

What we know now are: Zhao Da’s mung bean cakes and Aunt Wang’s oil hairpins from Nantang Old Street; fried dumplings, soy sauce wontons, and lard noodles from the Zhenming intersection market breakfast shop; and noodle soup from Cangqiaotou’s noodle shop.

, intestine blood soup, lard noodles, and Fenghua beef jerky noodles. Ningbo glutinous rice balls include small lard glutinous rice balls (Wending No. 1), fermented glutinous rice balls (Din Tai Feng) and Zhuji Ciwu noodles, and seafood types include heirloom rice dumplings.

Seafood noodles, smoked fish with chicken feet, sweet and sour smoked fish, and a special soup, lard dregs tofu soup. There are many early snacks in Ningbo that no one makes anymore or have been lost.

It is not recommended to eat in food hypermarkets such as Chenghuang Temple.

It is also not recommended to eat buffets in five-star hotels.

Of course, the non-buffet Chinese food at Nanyuan, Kaizhou, Shangri-La, and Park Hyatt all taste good, but they are not cost-effective, so I do not recommend them.

As for special delicacies, if you refer to traditional snacks, it is really sad. There are too few left, and many time-honored brands are just selling dog meat.

I presume that many of the recipes have been lost or have been modified for modern tastes.

Below I recommend a few small restaurants that I often go to for your reference.

A Snack Category 1. Mung bean cake, from Zhao Dayou in Nantang Old Street, is very suitable for afternoon tea and eaten with green tea.

Meizimeizi Cake's cranberry and mung bean cake, chilled and served with black tea, has a delicate taste, less sugar, and will not get greasy if you eat more. Recommended location: Meizimeizi 2. South in front of Ningbo Hotel (across the road from the Sailors Club on Mayuan Road)

After the oil hairpins on Tanglao Street, Aunt Wang’s oil hairpins moved to a new address in Gulou, the queues are much smaller, so you can give it a try.

3. There is a "pasta breakfast" at the vegetable market at Zhenming Road. The fried dumplings, soy sauce wontons and lard noodles sold here are highly recommended (the proprietress of this shop is the wife of the proprietress of the Weiyi family, so the recipe tastes better). The so-called Ning

Pan-fried dumplings, which look like pot stickers, with onion and meat stuffing and meat jelly inside.

Sometimes the noodles are not cooked well, but the basic level is still very high. 4. Cangqiaotou Noodle Shop next to the noodle breakfast, noodles with lard, noodle soup, and intestine blood soup.

Noodle knots are often found in Ningbo people’s breakfast.

Lean pork wrapped in thousands of skins with some fat.

The dough that is not cooked well tastes bad, but this one tastes okay.

There are also many Cangqiaotou noodle shops in Ningbo city. The taste is similar, they are copies of each other, and the basic recipes are similar.

5. Fenghua Beef Jerky Noodles. Fenghua Beef Jerky Noodles is located at the entrance of Taikoo Shing Community (near Baizhang East Road). The noodle soup is very good and the beef is delicious.

6. Ah Bian Tou Beef Noodles, (near Metro) Sangju Home Community, a very good beef noodle shop, business is booming every day.

8. Ningbo dumplings, there are many delicious places. 9. Gulou has Shanghai fried dumplings. Chen Yuansheng fried dumplings (close to the bathroom of the old Drum Tower) are not sticky and the soup is not greasy. It tastes good. I like the soup.

You can try the fried bun type.

12. Heirloom Seafood Noodles, Maocheng Road, Qianhu North Road, across the road from China Merchants Bank.

The chicken feet and smoked fish were great.

It’s worth a try for those who like to try Xiangshan flavored ginger seafood noodles.

My friend from Xiangshan who took me there commented: It tastes like my grandma’s house.

B restaurant subcategory: 1. Lard dregs tofu soup, Red Lantern Longfeng Restaurant (near Zhongshan West Road and Wangjing Road), this old restaurant in Ningbo has been eaten for many years, but I haven’t eaten much recently. The quality of the dishes has declined a bit and the price

It’s also a lot more expensive, and the boss is no longer in charge.

But I still recommend this dish.

2. Sweet and sour smoked fish, Yunyan Restaurant (near Zhongxing Road), the method is quite special. Instead of adding sweet and sour sauce to the smoked fish, the fried crispy smoked fish is put into the sweet and sour sauce. The fish is sometimes made with pomfret.

,taste good.

This restaurant's meatloaf stewed with eggs is very famous in Ningbo, but now it doesn't taste that good, probably because the boss doesn't know how to cook it.

This restaurant's Nanru Xiaofang Roast (similar to braised pork) is also delicious, and they often have plump little crabs, which is very good.

3. Seafood, a real nameless little restaurant, close to the PetroChina gas station next to the Yaojiang Gate. There is a bus stop at the door, and there is no other store name or street sign. It is very mysterious.

The price is comparable to that of a five-star hotel, and the taste and seafood ingredients are not inferior to those of a five-star hotel.

Crabs, snails, mantis shrimps, pomfret, all kinds of fish are great!

The best is the ingredients.

At Sanmenren’s shop, you can eat top-notch crabs during the blue crab season.

recommend.

4 Ninghai Restaurant Xiaowen Street Branch, Braised Yellow Squid Vermicelli, White Crab Potato Pot, Pomfret Noodles, Pomfret and Squid Egg Pancakes, the last two dishes are made by all big seafood restaurants in Ningbo, the difference lies in the ingredients.

Good taste requires good luck, and it depends on the store's input that day.

The basic level of this hotel is okay.