The food of Nanjing people has a moderate taste of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Nanjing cuisine generally belongs to Huaiyang cuisine, but it has its own characteristics, mainly including the following quirks: Nanjing people are famous for their love of duck.

A banquet must be complete with ducks. There can be no banquet in Nanjing without ducks.

Nanjing people are very particular about eating duck, and there are many ways to eat duck, such as the famous salted duck, salted duck, etc.

Nanjing people entertain guests at short notice. If the family is in a hurry and has no food to prepare, they usually "chop" a bowl of salted duck or roast duck.

In addition to duck meat, Nanjing people like to eat almost all ducks.

Nanjing people especially like to eat "four pieces of duck", which is the two wings and two feet of the duck. Together they are called "four pieces". There are many ways to eat it.

He also likes to eat duck blood, such as the famous Nanjing snack duck blood vermicelli soup, and also likes to eat duck intestines, duck heart, and duck liver. These can be eaten together with duck blood in soup, or they can be eaten separately as side dishes.

And duck gizzards.

In short, Nanjing people like to eat duck very much. Love to eat duck is a symbol of Nanjing people in general.

A city with grass and grass-eating citizens. Nanjing people especially like to eat wild vegetables. To people in other areas, these wild vegetables are generally just ordinary grasses, but in Nanjing, they can all become treasures.

The wild vegetables that Nanjing people like to eat mainly include artemisia, chrysanthemum, alfalfa, malan, toon, shepherd's purse, wild garlic, etc., as well as ground vegetables, chicken feet, wild rice, etc.

You can eat these wild vegetables, make soup, or make dumplings.

Nanjing people like to eat wild vegetables, mainly because these wild vegetables have a very unique fragrance. Nanjing people mainly eat them for this fragrance.

Modern science has proven that it is very scientific for Nanjing people to eat more wild vegetables, which can prevent many diseases and play a replenishing effect.

Half a plate of salt, a pot of eggs, a beautiful sight on the street. Nanjing people also eat chickens that have not yet been hatched. If they are live embryos, they are also called live beads.

Women in Nanjing especially like to eat this. It is said that this egg is a traditional Chinese medicine that can cure dizziness in women.

Outsiders are generally surprised to see Nanjing people eating Wang eggs.

The snack of Wang eggs is a household name in Nanjing. If Nanjing people say that a person is forgetful, they will usually say that he "eats too many Wang eggs", which is the homophony of "wang" and "forget".

In recent years, since "Wang" means "prosperity", it is said that when someone opens a shop or something, they will eat a Wang egg. I don't know whether it is true or not.

There is another strange thing about Nanjing people’s eating habits: they like to eat moldy vegetables, mainly moldy beans and moldy dried vegetables.

Moldy beans look ugly at first sight, and people who don’t know about them simply dare not eat them, but once you take a bite, they taste really good.

Mold-dried vegetables are mainly eaten when roasting meat and have a particularly fresh taste.

Nanjing people also like to eat dried vegetables, which means they blow the vegetables into dryness before eating them.

For example, many families will pull out the cabbage hearts when they are flooded with vegetables in winter, string them up one by one and hang them under the eaves. Wait until around the Spring Festival, take them out, blanch them in boiling water, and then use peanuts and dried tofu.

Cut into pieces and mix with sesame oil to make a delicious dish.