Zhongshan Road is a street dedicated to eating goods. For tourists, it is one of the top ten food streets in China, but for Nanning people, it is a small street where people usually eat supper, string together and stroll around, and it is a part of life in Nanning.
Zhongshan Road in Nanning is a famous snack street in China. It has a long history and many delicious foods. It is the favorite place for Nanning people to eat midnight snack, and it is also a must-see place for friends who travel to Nanning. From traditional snacks in Nanning, such as taro cake, rice rolls, zongzi, fried dough sticks, barbecue, snail, seafood, sour wild fruit, herbal tea, freshly squeezed juice, peanut paste, sesame paste, glutinous rice balls, beef balls, eight-treasure noodles, old friends powder and stir-fried dishes, to duck neck in Wuhan, glutinous rice cakes in Hong Kong and fried chestnuts in Beijing. Because of the variety of snacks and unique food culture, Zhongshan Road in Nanning was named "Top Ten Food Streets in China" and also called "Hong Kong Snack Streets" in the south. In 20 10, China CCTV came here to shoot a documentary, which added a lot of popularity to this old and young street.
For many Nanning people, Zhongshan Road is where they grew up. This small street, which is about 1000 meters long, will be crowded with hundreds of stalls after 6 o'clock every night. The journey that can be completed in less than ten minutes during the day is almost impossible at night. Foodies from all directions gather here. In front of each booth, there will be more than a dozen customers waiting to taste. The stall owner warmly entertained the guests and added a few more spoonfuls to the bowl. This is not only the way to survive in the food street, but also the tacit understanding formed between customers and stall owners over the years.
It is said that the food street is a hodgepodge of everything, but the reason why Zhongshan Road can stand among so many food streets in Nanning and become a signboard recommended by locals to foreigners is because it combines regional advantages, not only bringing together food from all over China, but also including food from all over Southeast Asia, which is extremely inclusive. Let me recommend some special snacks in Nanning to you!
Some friends will say that after seeing the method of making water chestnut cake, they will never dare to eat water chestnut cake again. Water chestnut cake is a bit transparent, chewy and crunchy. There will be many different fillings to choose from, sesame flavor, pineapple flavor and so on. I'll cut the pieces for you. The powdered things feel best in summer.
The making material of the rice cake is different from that of the water chestnut cake, but it tastes very similar. The appearance of alms cake is very pleasing. It's cute in a bowl, with red beans or shredded coconut in it, forming a different taste. I remember a long time ago, there were no alms cakes on Zhongshan Road, only some small shops opposite the school sold them. Later, those small shops gradually stopped selling. At one time, I thought there would be no such thing. Later, it was found that it actually appeared on Zhongshan Road, which was really a surprise.
There are many roast pig's trotters on Zhongshan Road. I've only eaten one, and it's delicious. The pig's trotters are roasted on the barbecue carbon until they are half cooked. Customers need to reheat them on the spot, add some cumin powder and Chili powder, and the roasted pig's trotters will be baked soon. This Chinese food is recommended for everyone to eat on the spot. It will be tender and not greasy.
In Nanning, besides Friends Powder, you have to mention Pink jiaozi. Fenjiao is different from ordinary jiaozi. Its skin is made of rice and tastes soft. This is a special snack of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, which may not be eaten in other places, so don't miss this delicious food when you come to Nanning.
Sour Shu is a Cantonese word, also known as "sour material" and "sour product". It is a popular specialty snack in all parts of Guangxi. There are sweet and sour, sour and salty, and there are many kinds, which are collected from fruits and vegetables and tend to be sour. The word "raw" is the most important choice of materials. First-ripe or ripe fruits and vegetables should not be used as sour materials, because they are already very soft and not crisp enough, but they have a prominent "sour" taste and are moderately sour, salty, sweet and sour. Common ones are radish acid, broccoli acid, concanavalic acid, cowpea acid, water chestnut acid, carambolic acid, peach acid, cucumber acid, melon acid, rice acid, papaya acid, pear acid and mango acid.
In addition, the most eye-catching night market in Zhongshan Road, Nanning is all kinds of fried insects, including scorpions and centipedes, as well as silkworm chrysalis, cicadas, bamboo worms, wood worms, grasshoppers, bee chrysalis, hyenas and dragonflies. According to the stall owner, these insects are cultured artificially, rich in protein, with delicate and sweet taste and rich nutrition. I wonder if friends have the courage to have a taste?
A road that gives people the feeling that "the night is like heaven, and the day is like a straw house", a road that walks from head to tail with your feet for no more than 10 minutes, but it may make you carry it on your mouth for several years; A road named after a famous politician in China is located in the center of the provincial capital city, but it is not a traffic artery. This is Zhongshan Road in Nanning.
This street full of "grass-root flavor" food will look like an old yellowed photo. In some people's memory, it will never stay, and it is worth remembering.
If you want to know a city, you must visit the night market there after nightfall. Nanning in the night, tranquility in the bustling city. Colorful lanterns light up gradually, reflecting each other with the lights, which is the most authentic taste of Nanning.
If you travel to Nanning, I recommend that you go to Zhongshan Road anyway and experience the colorful night market life of Nanning people. I believe you will also fall in love with Nanning, a city full of delicious food.