People in Nanjing like porridge and pickles for breakfast. The taste is salty. It is located at the junction of north and south, and actually has a mixed taste. If you like sweets, you can eat spicy food. The spicy lobster and pickled fish here are very popular in summer.

Nanjing's diet is famous for Sujing cuisine (Jinling cuisine) and Qingzhen cuisine. The four famous dishes of Jinling cuisine include squirrel fish, boiled eggs, plum liver and anchovies.

Nanjing people are famous for eating ducks. If you have a party, you must have ducks. You can't sit in Nanjing without ducks. Nanjing people are very particular about eating ducks, and there are many ways, such as the famous salted duck and salted duck. Nanjing people entertain guests temporarily. If they are not in a hurry to prepare food at home, they usually chop up a bowl of salted duck or roast duck. Nanjing people like to eat almost all ducks except ducks. Nanjing people especially like to eat "four pieces of duck", that is, the wings and feet of a duck, which together are called "four pieces" and there are many ways to eat them. I also like eating duck blood, such as the famous Nanjing snack duck blood vermicelli soup. I also like eating duck intestines, duck hearts and duck livers. These can be cooked with duck blood or eaten alone. And duck gizzards In a word, Nanjing people like eating ducks very much, which is a sign of Nanjing people as a whole.

Another feature of Nanjing people's diet is that all kinds of wild vegetables are very popular, including Artemisia selengensis, chrysanthemum brain, Malantou, wolfberry head, shepherd's purse, purslane, goose intestine and Toona sinensis head. In addition, there are eight kinds of fresh water, such as fish, lotus root, water chestnut, watermelon, kelp, cockscomb, cress and lotus.