Jiangsu cuisine is mainly composed of four flavors: Huaiyang (Huai 'an and Huaiyang cuisine-dim sum Yangzhou), Xu Hai (Xuzhou and Lianyungang), Jingning (Zhenjiang and Nanjing) and Suzhou and Wuxi.

Nanjing cuisine and Nanjing snacks

Nanjing cuisine has always been called Beijing-Suzhou cuisine, while chefs call themselves "Beijing-Suzhou Gang". Duck-making technology has a long reputation; Famous specialty snacks include aftertaste duck blood vermicelli soup, lion's head in the lion's palace, Yin's chicken soup packets, Lianhu pastry shop, "unforgettable" fish with Chinese sauerkraut, and Green Willow House.

Nanjing salted duck

Nanjing's duck-making technology has a long reputation, which was recorded as early as 14 years ago in the Southern Dynasties. Nanjing's duck dishes are famous all over the country. Apart from Jinling roast duck, salted duck, roasted duck, Jinling sauce duck, crispy duck, eight-treasure pearl duck and salted duck gizzard also have their own characteristics.

Food Street

Dashiba Street in Confucius Temple and Lion Bridge in Hunan Road are famous food streets, with many special snacks, such as vermicelli with aftertaste duck blood, lion's head in Lion Palace, Yin's chicken soup packets, Lianhu pastry shop, "unforgettable" pickled fish, green willow house and so on. In addition, many gourmet shops scattered around Xinjiekou and Nanda are also recommended by many netizens. In addition, most people who go to Nanjing Confucius Temple will try the delicious old duck vermicelli soup here, which is very delicious.

Eight Unique Scenes of Qinhuai

The so-called "Eight Unique Scenes of Qinhuai" refers to sixteen famous spots in eight snack bars in Nanjing:

spiced tea eggs and spiced beans in Kuiguangge; Crab shell yellow sesame seed cake and kai yang dried silk in Yongheyuan;

Duck oil crisp sesame cake and sesame oil dried silk in Qifangge; The scallion cake and bean curd in Liufengju;

jambalaya Bao and shredded chicken noodles in Qifangge; Jiang Youji's beef pot stickers and beef soup;

Thin bag dumplings and fried fish noodles in red soup in Zhanyuan noodle restaurant; Five-color cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings in Lianhu Cake Group Store.

Suzhou Cuisine Suzhou Snack

Biluochun Tea

One of the top ten famous teas in China, its common name is "Scaring people and making them fragrant". Kangxi passed through Suzhou on his southern tour and praised it after drinking tea. Therefore, tea was collected from Qingming and Grain Rain seasons, and was given the name "Biluochun" and listed as a tribute.

Taicang floss

Taicang floss has slender fibers, soft quality, golden color, delicious taste, and melts in the mouth. It is made from the lean meat of fresh pig's rear buttock tip as the basic raw material, and is made by four processes: cutting, boiling, frying and rubbing. Dried pork floss can be stored for 3-4 months, and it can be preserved for more than one year by vacuum sealing.

whitebait in Taihu Lake

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, whitebait was abundant in Taihu Lake. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, whitebait was listed as a tribute, and it was also called the Three Treasures of Taihu Lake together with plum and white shrimp. Whitebait is shaped like Hosta, with ivory color, scaleless cartilage, tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition, and contains many ingredients such as protein, fat, iron, riboflavin, calcium and phosphorus. The Japanese call it "fish ginseng". Whitebait can be fried, fried, steamed and made into soup. Scrambled eggs with whitebait, whitebait soup, whitebait balls and hibiscus whitebait are all famous dishes in Soviet cuisine.

Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab

Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab is the most famous freshwater crab in China. It is a big fat crab with a green back and a white belly and yellow hair and a golden hook, so it is also called "golden hook crab", and people are known as "the king of crabs". Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs can be steamed, boiled, fried, dragged, drunk and pickled, and are often used as raw materials for making delicious dishes and crab banquets, such as crab oil crystal balls, snow crab fights, pot-cooked crab powder, fried crab boxes and fried crab powder.

Yangzhou cuisine Yangzhou snacks

Yangzhou cuisine is represented by "three heads" (braised silver carp head, grilled whole pig head and lion head with crab powder). If you want to test the chef's knife skills, you might as well order a big boiled shredded pork. And more famous than these dishes are all kinds of Yangzhou dim sum and snacks:

Ten famous points in Yangzhou: three-ding buns, thousand-layer oil cake, double sesame crisp cake, jade steamed bun, dried vegetable bun, wild duck cabbage bun, glutinous rice steamed bun, steamed dumplings with crab roe, steamed pork chops and shredded chicken rolls.

top ten snacks: bamboo shoot fried dumpling, Yangzhou cake, crab shell yellow, fried eggs, salty pot cake, radish crisp cake, shredded chicken, three fresh pot cake, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar lotus root porridge and three-color oil dumplings.

Top Ten Special Snacks: Sixi dumplings, raw lotus root clips, tofu rolls, bamboo shoots, red bean dumplings, five-kernel cakes, scallion crispy cakes, Huangqiao sesame cakes, shrimp dumpling noodles and bamboo shoots wonton.

of course, don't forget the famous Yangzhou fried rice!

Taizhou cuisine Taizhou snacks

Taizhou cuisine belongs to Huaiyang cuisine, which is rigorous in selecting materials and tailored to its material. Fine production and elegant style; Pursue the original taste, freshness and peace. Qinhu Baxian Banquet, Meilan Banquet, Banqiao Banquet, Jiangxian Banquet and Whole Sheep Banquet are popular in the local area. The main specialties are Babao saury, longan ball, steamed shad, crab roe vermicelli, Taizhou dried silk, Huangqiao sesame seed cake, Jingjiang crab roe soup packets and so on.

Taizhou's flavor snacks and delicacies have long enjoyed a good reputation in Huaiyang cuisine, and there are many kinds of them. The specialty snacks mainly include Jinsong preserved eggs, Huangqiao sesame seed cake, drunken crab in Zhongzhuang, dried silk, Qintong fish cake, fried stinky dried silk, dried silk with five flavors, fish noodle soup, Jiangyan shortcake, peasant buckwheat noodle soup cake, cicada wing cake in Chai market, Xuanbao small wonton, luobing and so on.

Among them, the most famous one is the Eight Fresh Banquet in Qinhu, and the eight fresh ones in Qinhu are represented by the crabs, shrimp balls, fish cakes and turtles in Qinhu. Crab-yellow soup dumpling is a traditional famous spot in Jingjiang, with a history of more than 2 years. It is listed as the "four famous spots in China" along with Tianjin Goubuli Steamed Bun, Shanghai Nanxiang Steamed Bun and Yangzhou Sandingbao. From the beginning of April to May every year, Taizhou will hold a large-scale Qinhu Baxian Food Festival, Jingjiang Jiangxian Food Festival and Tangbao Food Festival, which is the best time to taste.

The main commercial street in Taizhou is along Renmin Road, and Shuidong Road is a gourmet street, where you can taste authentic Taizhou cuisine. Pozi Street, Hailing Road and Wuyi Road (you can get there by bus No.1, 4, 9 and 29); Qingnian Road and Dongjin Road (take bus No.5, No.8, No.9, No.15, No.16 and No.29 to find good food shops. There are more than 1 traditional snacks and private restaurants in Taoyuan Ancient Street in Fengcheng Scenic Area, which constitutes the first snack street in the central Jiangsu area and can enjoy Taizhou delicacies.

Yancheng delicacies Yancheng snacks

The restaurants in Yancheng are mainly based on Huaiyang dishes of Jiangsu cuisine, which pay attention to the freshness of ingredients, and are good at making soups. Huaiyang dishes are salty, delicious, light and palatable, and exquisite in production. Huaiyang cuisine, also called Weiyang cuisine, is said to have started in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Huaiyang cuisine is also an important branch of Jiangsu cuisine.

There are many famous dishes in Yancheng, such as Dongtai fish soup noodles, Jianhu lotus root starch dumplings with smooth taste, fragrant and delicious stewed fish skin, and Yancheng Qiyuan crab roe buns with strong stuffing and fragrant juice, which are outstanding in taste. In addition, due to the Yellow Sea in the east, there are abundant seafood rivers here, such as raw baked shrimps, white stewed mullet with tender meat, and four-gill bass that used to be a tribute, which are full of color, fragrance and taste, and are extremely delicious.

Xuzhou Cuisine Xuzhou Snacks

Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times, because of Peng Zu and the big Pengshi country he established. Peng Zu is recognized as the ancestor of Chinese culinary circles. It is said that in Yao's time, Peng Zu was praised by Emperor Yao because he was good at cooking wild chicken soup, and established Da Peng's country in the present Xuzhou area. The dishes in Xuzhou are adhering to the ancient style of Dapeng, exquisite in production, unique in flavor and self-contained, and almost every dish has a touching legend. For example, the sheep hides fish, which is named after stewing the fish in a large piece of mutton cut with Chinese fire, and the Chinese character "fresh" comes from this.

Jiefang South Road and Fuxing South Road in Xuzhou are famous food streets.

Cuizhai, 4km north of Xuzhou, is a famous "hometown of dog meat", and hot "dog meat with catkins" can be seen everywhere in the street, with a catty of 17 yuan. There are many CMB buses going to Cuizhai in xuzhou station, and the fare is 6 yuan, which can be reached in one hour.

Lianyungang cuisine Lianyungang snacks

Lianyungang dishes are mainly Huaiyang cuisine and seafood. There are famous seafood dishes here all year round, which makes people never tire of eating them.

The delicious and exotic fingered citron fish, the silver swordfish that is several feet long, and the fat "covered persimmon" can be tasted once and remembered for life. Oriental shrimp and wool shrimp, stir-fried, wrapped in jiaozi and cooked in soup, are also delicious; Portunus crab is full of crab roe, which is delicious and tender.

There are anchovies with yellow tail and red body, crisp outside and tender inside; Delicious shrimp cooking section; Meirong crab with good color, fragrance, taste and shape; Drunk crabs with fragrant smell and tender and delicious meat; Fresh and tender raw smoked yellow croaker with good color; Golden-colored pot-collapsed whales; The crab yellow with delicious meat and soup is close to the fish belly; Soup is thick and tender, milk soup, fish skin and so on.

In addition, the crispy and refreshing lotus finch, the local famous chestnut roast chicken and the fried head breast with Shan Ye flavor are also unique delicacies.

Suqian Cuisine Suqian Snacks

Zhugan Street is a unique local food street in Lobster City. You can taste various flavors such as "Thirteen Green Lobster" and "Luoma Lobster". Besides, Suqian delicacies such as dried silk, pork head with yellow dog, mustard vermicelli, Farewell My Concubine, Sihong fish fried dumpling, dried dragon cake and Zaohe sesame seed cake are also worth tasting.

Huai' an cuisine Huai' an snacks

The most famous food in Huai' an is Xu Yi crayfish. Crayfish meat is white and tender, delicious and cheap. In particular, spicy crayfish and thirteen-fragrant crayfish cooked with unique spices are rich in aroma and have a large number of "shrimp fans".

crayfish: also known as crayfish, it belongs to the crustacean river shrimp. It is small and lobster-like in shape, with a well-developed first pair of feet and a bright and beautiful shell. Xuyi's big-headed crayfish, also known as "Crayfish", is large, with a thick shell and a dark red body.