Lotus root flour dumplings

Nanjing snacks have a long history and many varieties. They have been passed down since the Six Dynasties and have a history of thousands of years, with more than 100 varieties. Famous snacks include meat and vegetables, sweet and salty, and come in various shapes. Among them, the representative snacks are from the Confucius Temple area on the Qinhuai River. Its snacks are one of the four snack groups in China. The snacks in Confucius Temple may have originated from the Qinhuai River in those days. The boat has fine craftsmanship, beautiful shape, exquisite selection of materials and unique flavor. After years of hard work, the snacks produced by seven of the dim sum shops were appraised by experts, and eight sets of Qinhuai-style snacks were officially named "Qinhuai Eight Wonders". In addition to Confucius Temple, relatively concentrated dim sum and snack groups have gradually formed in Hunan Road, Xinjiekou, Chaotian Palace, Changle Road, Shanxi Road, Zhongyangmen, Huimin Bridge, Yanziji and other places.

Confucius Temple Snacks

Nanjing Confucius Temple Snack Group is located on the bank of the prosperous Qinhuai River. The snack vendors here sell fried dried tofu, tofu curd, five-spice braised dried noodles, five-spice tea eggs, turtle seeds, crispy sesame cakes, xiaolongbao dumplings, thousand-layer oil cakes, Huafei Sijiwang hot and sour noodles, and various toppings. Style soup noodles and other varieties are cheap and high-quality, especially the colorful dim sum with matching baskets are most popular among consumers.

Representatives include steamed buns, ramen, pizza, scallion pancakes, tofu dumplings, soup noodle dumplings, vegetable buns, butter sesame cakes, sweet bean paste buns, shredded chicken noodles, spring rolls, sesame cakes, beef soup, and steamed buns. Dumplings, pressed noodles, crab roe noodles, long fish noodles, beef pot stickers, braised dried noodles, braised tea eggs, sugar porridge lotus root, etc.

Eight Wonders of Qinhuai

The first: Huangqiao Shaobing and Kaiyang Dried Silk in Yonghe Garden

Nanjing Tofu Nao

The second The best: Jiang Youji’s beef soup and beef pot stickers

The third best: Liufengju’s tofu and scallion pancakes

The fourth best: Qifangge’s duck fat crispy pancakes and Assorted vegetable buns

Fifth wonder: Qifangge’s dried shredded sesame oil and shredded chicken noodles

Sixth wonder: Lianhu cake shop’s sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings and five-color dumplings Small cakes

The seventh wonder: Zhanyuan Noodle House’s smoked fish silver noodles and thin-skin dumplings

The eighth wonder: Kuiguang Pavilion’s spiced beans and spiced eggs

Suzhou snacks

Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks have a long history and rich and diverse snack culture. Xuanmiaoguan Snack Group is located on Guanqian Street in downtown Suzhou. It integrates Suzhou dim sum and snacks in one store. The famous ones include Liao Spare Ribs’ five-spice pork ribs, Shengmeizhai’s chicken and duck blood soup, Xiao Youtian’s lotus root starch dumplings, and fried crispy beans. Sugar porridge, etc., in addition to Qianzhang steamed buns, various Soviet-style noodles from Guanzhenxing Noodle House, vegetarian vegetable steamed buns, etc.; in addition, there are also varieties for people to eat after tea and wine: salted cauliflower, pickled huangtou, peeled Youjiu fruit jade, oily soybeans, soy sauce snails, oily stinky tofu, oily rice cakes, baked potatoes, oily rice dumplings, etc. are all cheap, high-quality snacks with a strong Jiangnan flavor.

Representatives include (1) plum blossom cake/begonia cake; (2) glutinous rice balls;