Steamed buns: Pay attention to the soup when eating steamed buns. When cooking, concentrate the soup into transparent solid gum, chop it up and mix it in. As soon as the hot air is steamed, it turns into soup. Good steamed bread is as thin as paper and can be carried around without breaking. Carefully take it out, put it in a vinegar bowl, aim at it and take a sip, and the delicious soup will enter your stomach. But don't worry, otherwise it will burn, and then slowly appreciate the contents. Therefore, Nanjing people eat steamed stuffed buns with a ballad, "Move gently, lift slowly, open the window first, and then drink soup".
2. Duck blood vermicelli
Duck blood fans: In Nanjing, there are many stalls selling duck blood soup. The shrewd stall owner cooked the duck blood in advance, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pot. When he saw the tourists coming, he fished out the duck blood and put it in a white porcelain bowl, then poured a spoonful of hot soup, dropped a few drops of sesame oil, sprinkled a pinch of shrimp or duck casing, and added a pinch of coriander. Guests who like spicy food can also add some Chili oil or pepper, which is fragrant and spicy and delicious.
3. Beef fried dumpling
Beef pot stickers: crispy outside and tender inside, with a lot of stuffing. Saltiness with sweetness is the biggest feature of Nanjing beef pot stickers. Because there is so much juice, all the old customers use the soup packets on this pot sticker. The first bite will leak juice; If you bite hard, the juice will come out; Bite too small and not too hidden!
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4. Ruyi halogen drying
Ruyi Huilujan: Nanjing has a long history, and Nanjing people are willing to contact all kinds of snacks and history. Take this ordinary salt water drying for example, it is also associated with Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, he was tired of eating the delicacies in the palace. One day, he went out of the palace incognito and saw a snack bar frying tofu in the street. The smell was overflowing, the color was golden, and his appetite increased greatly. He took out a silver ingot and asked the shopkeeper to process a bowl of tofu fruit for him to enjoy. Seeing that he was a rich gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the tofu into the chicken soup pot and cooked it with a small amount of bean sprouts and seasonings until the tofu was soft and tender, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised it again and again after eating it. Since then, oily tofu has been all the rage and spread to this day. Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts when firing, its shape is very similar to the jade ruyi in ancient jade articles, so it is called ruyi drying.
5. Assorted tofu stains
Assorted bean curd stains: Bean curd stains are also called bean curd brain and bean curd flower, and in Nanjing dialect, they are also called "none is old". This snack is found all over the country, but the tofu stains in Nanjing are not quite the same as those in other places, except as white as jade. Nanjing tofu stains are not only fragrant and refreshing, but also pay attention to one kind of seasoning, supplemented by more than ten kinds of seasonings such as shrimp, mustard tuber, fungus, chopped green onion, spicy oil and sesame oil. It is not only gorgeous in color, but also mellow, thick, fragrant, fresh and salty, spicy and full of flavor. Nanjing people eat snacks well, which has also been verified in this simple snack: it is said that young people eat tofu stains to strengthen their brains, while old people eat tofu stains to prolong their lives. In order to please people, the store also added mixed rice to it. What does this mean? The future is bright, hehe.
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