1. Eat rice cakes in Cicheng, Ningbo, and eat rice cakes in Shuimo. Cicheng Shuimo Rice Cake is made by pure handicraft, selected high-quality japonica rice, and made by ten processes, such as seed, selection, soaking, grinding, steaming, frying and printing. It tastes delicate, smooth and chewy. The most common practice of Ningbo people is to put soup and stir-fry in oil. Xuecai shredded pork rice cake soup is quite authentic Ningbo cuisine. The soup is rich and salty, with a slight acidity, which is extremely refreshing.
2, red paste choking crab Ningbo dishes are naturally indispensable for seafood. Red paste choking crabs is one of the outstanding representatives. Since it is called red paste-baked crab, the choice of materials is naturally exquisite. One is red paste, and the other is live crab. Because it is eaten raw, it is very important to be fresh. Marinate it with 4: 1 salt water for not too long, so as not to drown out the savory taste. When starting, it is best to dip in ginger vinegar, which can sterilize and deodorize, and ginger can neutralize the coldness of crabs and protect the stomach. Whether it is raw food or not, people with bad stomachs had better not try it easily.
3. Ningbo glutinous rice balls are made of black sesame seeds, lard and white sugar, stuffed into glutinous rice balls, kneaded into balls and cooked. Round skin is soft and sweet. When the teeth bite through the skin, the stuffing with sesame fragrance instantly impacts the taste buds, which is really full of fragrance. With the popularity of glutinous rice balls, there are more and more ways to eat them. Some people like to fiddle with their practices, frying dumplings and eating them. Others like to think about stuffing, such as pork stuffing, durian stuffing, red bean stuffing and so on.
4. Taking the fresh from the three stinks in Ningbo probably best reflects the true nature of eating goods in Ningbo. Stinky white gourd, stinky amaranth stalk and stinky cabbage heart are the three famous odors in Ningbo. In Ningbo words, you can smell the odor even when it is "far away from water". It is said to be three stinks, and it tastes especially fragrant. Especially in summer, when I am tired of big fish and big meat, I serve a bowl of smelly wax gourd and drop a few drops of sesame oil. The salty and sour taste is like a clear spring, and it is refreshing from my mouth to my heart.