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 wander around. 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 sauce, 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 pm every day. It is almost impossible to walk in less than ten minutes during the day at night. Gourmets from all directions gather here. In front of each booth, there will be more than a dozen customers waiting to taste. The stall owners warmly entertained them, adding a few more spoonfuls to the bowl while comforting the guests. This is not only the way to survive in the food street, but also the tacit understanding between customers and stall owners over the years.
It is said that the food street is a hodgepodge with everything, but the reason why Zhongshan Road can stand among so many food streets in Nanning and become a signboard recommended by local people to foreigners is that it combines geographical advantages, not only bringing together food from all over China, but also food from all over Southeast Asia, which is extremely inclusive. Let me recommend some special snacks in Nanning for 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. The water chestnut cake is a little transparent and crunchy when chewed. There will be many different fillings to choose from, sesame flavor, pineapple flavor and so on. I'll help you cut into pieces. Things coated with powder feel best in summer.
The material of thin cake is different from that of water chestnut cake, but the taste is very similar. The appearance of alms cake is very pleasing. It is very cute in a bowl, and red beans or shredded coconut will be put in it to form different flavors. 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. I once thought that this kind of thing could not be bought. Later, I found that it actually appeared on Zhongshan Road, which was really unexpected.
There are many roast pig's trotters on Zhongshan Road. I've only eaten one, and it's delicious. The trotters are roasted on barbecue carbon until they are half-cooked. Customers need to reheat them on the spot, add some cumin powder and Chili powder, and the roast trotters they want to spray will soon be ready. This Chinese dish is recommended for everyone to eat on the spot, so it will be tender and not greasy.
In Nanning, in addition to friends' powder, you have to mention powder dumplings. Fenjiao is different from ordinary jiaozi. Its skin is made of rice and it 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. It is sweet, sour, spicy and salty, with a wide variety, collected from fruits and vegetables, and tends to be sour. The word "raw" is the most important material choice. Fruits and vegetables that are ripe at first are not suitable as sour materials, because they are already soft and not crisp enough, but their taste highlights the word "sour" and they 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, milic acid, papaya acid, pear acid and mango acid.
In addition, the most striking thing in Nanning Zhongshan Road Night Market is all kinds of fried insects, such as 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 all my friends have the courage to taste it?
A road that gives people the impression that "the night is like heaven and the day is like a straw house", a road that takes no more than 10 minutes to walk from beginning to end with your feet, but may make you recite it with 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 major 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 be forgotten, 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 is the 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 suggest you go to Zhongshan Road to experience the colorful night market life of Nanning people anyway. I believe you will also fall in love with Nanning, a city full of delicious food.