What are the specialties in Nanjing?

If you only know that you are a fan of duck blood, you will be out. The editor will introduce to you the local delicacies and snacks in Nanjing 1. Salted duck. The grain-fed duck produced in Nanjing has white fat color and fresh and tender meat. It was famous throughout the province in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, duck dishes were popular in Nanjing, and it once had the reputation of "Jinling duck delicacies are the best in the world".

After Jinling was established as the capital in the Ming Dynasty, "Jinling Roast Duck" appeared, and then "Jinling Salted Duck" appeared.

The duck is made from the "osmanthus duck" produced during the Mid-Autumn Festival that year. It is marinated with hot salt and clear brine, then taken out and hung in a cool place to dry.

After being cooked, this duck is tender and delicious with a unique flavor.

Therefore, it became famous at home and abroad in the Ming Dynasty. Like the "Nanjing salted duck" that appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, it was sold all over the country. It was used as a palace tribute in the Qing Dynasty. For more than 500 years, "Jinling salted duck" has always been famous and has become a popular choice among people in the south of the Yangtze River.

A popular dish to accompany wine. 2. Beef pot stickers Beef pot stickers are a traditional snack in Nanjing. They are fried and stuffed food, shaped like dumplings, but slightly longer than dumplings. Beef pot stickers are one of the eight specialties of Jinling and Qinhuai.

Use beef as filling, wrap it into dumplings with dough, fry in oil until golden brown, then serve on a plate. This sweet and salty snack is tender on the top and crispy on the bottom. The beef filling is delicious and has a unique taste.

3. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, he got tired of eating the delicacies in the palace. One day, he left the palace in disguise and saw a snack shop fried tofu fruit on the street. It was fragrant and golden in color, which made him want to eat.

He took out a piece of silver and asked the shopkeeper to make a bowl of tofu fruit for him to enjoy. Seeing that he was a wealthy gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the tofu fruit into a chicken soup pot and cooked it with a small amount of soybean sprouts and seasonings.

Cook until the tofu is soft and delicious, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised it repeatedly after eating it. From then on, the fried tofu became popular and has been passed down to this day because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts to the cooking, and its shape is very similar to the jade in ancient jade.

Ruyihui Lugan 4. Sugar porridge and lotus root is a traditional dessert in Nanjing. The porridge is made from glutinous rice. It has a thick rice soup and clear grains. Add brown sugar to the porridge and enlarge the lotus root segments. When eating, add it to the soup.

Cut the lotus root into thin slices and mix it into the porridge. The lotus root is lavender and the slices are dark brown. The rice grains are moderately warm and fragrant and have a sweet taste. In addition to glutinous rice and lotus root, sugar porridge lotus root is also required.

Served with lotus seeds, red dates, and sweet-scented osmanthus, the sugar porridge is sweet and glutinous. If it is simmered with the rice, lotus seeds, dates and "rusty lotus roots" grown between the cold dew and the beginning of winter, the porridge will be even more sticky and delicious.

Delicious. Old Nanjing people like to talk and do things for good luck, and they also have many beautiful interpretations of sugar porridge lotus root, which symbolizes a prosperous life at home; children who eat lotus root will wake up early; adults who eat lotus root will have good luck.

The road is connected; the couple eats lotus root to form a pair; the new daughter-in-law eats dates and lotus to give birth to children early; the presence of sweet-scented osmanthus in the porridge also symbolizes wealth and wealth; the lotus roots are broken, which means they are connected by blood with relatives far away from their homeland, and love each other.

Come on, this sugar porridge with lotus root is really auspicious and suitable for all ages. 5. Zhuangyuan Bean According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a poor scholar named Qin lived in an alley next to Jinsha Well in the old city of Nanjing. Because of his poor family, he studied until late at night every day.

His mother cooked the beans with red yeast rice and red dates. She put the beans in a small bowl and gave him a red date to eat. She encouraged him to study hard and win the first prize in the future. Later, Master Qin won the first prize.

, this matter spread, and Zhuangyuan beans became famous. Like five-spice eggs, spiced beans are fragrant in the mouth, salty and sweet, soft and tender, and are interesting to taste. They are delicious due to cooking.

It is red sandalwood in color, has a elastic texture in the mouth, and has a rich aroma that makes people unable to stop eating it. 6. Jiangnan people are fond of sweet cakes, so there is still a market for traditional cake dumpling shops in Nanjing.

When people eat sweets, they pay attention to sweetness but not badness, glutinousness but not stickiness, so that they can be called the best desserts.