Jingjiang -- Because Jingjiang is located at the gateway to the Yangtze River and the sea, it is an important town that defends the whole of Wu (now southern Jiangsu), so it is named Jingjiang.

1. Jingjiang preserved meat.

Well deserved, first place.

It's so famous that I don't want to say more.

There are several brands, and the most delicious and expensive one is "Pisces". It is the reserved item of Jingjiang people and the first brand. It is available in single box and gift box.

Legend has it that people in Suzhou and Shanghai only recognize "Pisces".

Due to technology leaks, there are many types of dried meat on the market.

When eating white porridge, add minced meat to accompany the meal, which is really relaxing.

2. Three delicacies of the Yangtze River: saury, anchovy, and river fish.

Swordfish is also so famous, and the price is quite high, so don’t mention it.

The shad are extinct and not mentioned.

River fish, almost all of which are farmed on the market now, have low toxicity and good meat quality.

River fish are highly poisonous. When eating, the chef has to taste them in person before using chopsticks. However, when eating wild fish, some people were still poisoned. The fish poison is nerve paralysis, has a rapid effect and has a high mortality rate.

Visceral blood and ovaries are generally buried deeply.

But because of its delicious taste, there is a saying that people "eat puffer fish to the death".

In short, the "three delicacies of the Yangtze River" exist in name only.

3. Crab soup dumplings: Taitai Taitai is famous.

To use a local saying in Jingjiang: outside of Jingjiang, all soup dumplings are a blasphemy to soup dumplings.

On Zhongshan Road in Nanjing, there used to be a restaurant next to the Zhongshan Building, but for unknown reasons, it was demolished.

I once had the pleasure of seeing how to make soup dumplings: the skin should be of high quality.

Boil crab roe, crab meat + broth into agar-like shape, wrap it in skin after cooling, and leave no gaps, otherwise the filling will be exposed during steaming.

There is an oral rule for eating soup dumplings: lift gently, move quickly, open the window first, and then suck the soup.

Adding vinegar and shredded ginger, it is delicious and delicious. I even ate it during the Chinese New Year this year. By the way, the most famous one is the soup dumplings of Hongyun Restaurant.

Legend has it that Qianlong ate soup dumplings as steamed buns when he was eating. As a result, the dragon's mouth was scalded by the boiling soup, but he still lingered over it.

4. Indica porridge.

More popular than the above.

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In this season, when I was a child, it was extremely comfortable to sit on a small bench in the yard and drink porridge in the cool air with a greasy salted duck egg.

ps: Indica porridge without alkali is white, only with alkali added will it be red.

If there is too much alkali, it will be astringent and very red, which is unsightly.

There is a local saying in Jingjiang: "If you fill the rice with rice porridge, it will grow like a pot."

5. Old juice chicken.

Another civilian food.

The secret recipe of the old juice is specially prepared, I don’t understand.

Jingjiang Ji Town is the most famous.

6. Yeast (pronounced gao in Jingjiang dialect) sesame cake.

I like it very much.

It's as big as a washbasin, saucer-shaped, brown, sesame-stained, and chewy.

7. Wontons.

The ones in Nanjing are terrible. If you make wonton soup with boiling water, the skin should be thin, add green onions, salt, MSG, and a little soy sauce to make the soup. It's best to have pork suet. It's the best.

We have a famous Maqiao Wonton restaurant.

8. Braised pork leg.

Every place has its own way of cooking.

Our family pays attention to simmering it, it is sweet but not greasy, and it is the best.

9. Roll the dough with your hands.

Another chewy food.

For someone who doesn't like noodles, this noodle is quite decent.

It is said that there is a noodle shop near Yupo Bridge with a good reputation.

10. Group.

In layman's terms, it is stuffed with glutinous rice flour, the size of an egg, and cooked in the same way as wontons. It is a must-have during New Years and holidays.

There are sesame fillings, meat fillings, bean paste, and vegetable fillings. Compared with Ningbo glutinous rice balls, they are fragrant in one word.

I really like what my mother makes, it’s so delicious~ 11. Jiaoxi.

That is, crabs with hairy legs and small individuals.

Generally speaking, people who don’t eat.

You can find them all along the riverside. When we were kids, we used to fry the claws of crickets. The cooking method is the same as that of lobsters. The meat is as tender as crabs. It is a rare delicacy that can only be found in childhood.

Haha~12. Bamboo shoots.

Jingjiang used to be the hometown of bamboo utensils. When I was a child, I would steal bamboo shoots from my neighbor's house. When the bamboo shoots were tender, I would kick them over with my foot. When I came back, I would stew bacon and attract all the children from the neighborhood.

The local area is close to the river and has a lot of aquatic products, such as catfish and bass, which can be found everywhere.

I don’t eat dumplings, and I’ve never seen rice noodles or pickled fish.

Breakfast consists of porridge, soy milk, tofu curds, fried dough sticks (freshly fried, crispy), steamed rice, pancakes, steamed buns (Jingjiang calls steamed buns), sesame cakes (Huangqiao sesame cakes are the most beautiful), solid steamed buns (steamed buns without fillings)

The staple food of Chinese food is usually rice.

There are many kinds of dinners, so I won’t go into details.

Light, full of flavor and color, not sweet or greasy.

Jingjiang County was established in the seventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1471) and has a history of 524 years.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, land had not yet formed in Jingjiang River. Only a solitary mountain emerged from the roaring river, named Gushan.

Later, due to the erosion of the river tide, pieces of sandbars gradually rose up at the foot of Gushan.

The sandbanks were connected into pieces and became land. Later, people called this piece of land "Ma Tuo Sand".

One year, a Jingjiang magistrate named Yi Qian visited Xisha and walked to Jiaoshan Port (today's Dongxing Town). He found a broken monument with several inscriptions faintly visible on it, one of which read: "This sand is where Emperor Wu herded horses."

Dasha..." Emperor Wu is Sun Quan, the king of the Wu Kingdom. In the Jingjiang dialect, "mu" and "bai", "big" and "tuo" are all homophonic. If it is said that it is a mistake, it is mistaken for "horse dasha".

"White horse carries sand", and over time, it became simply "horse carries sand".