Nanjing’s food is famous for its Jingsu cuisine (Jinling cuisine) and Halal cuisine.
The four famous dishes of Jinling cuisine include squirrel fish, egg shaomai, beauty liver, and anchovy shrimp.
Well-known restaurants that prepare Jinling cuisine include Luliuju Restaurant and Ma Xiangxing Restaurant.
Since Nanjing people love to eat ducks and geese, the most popular foods in Nanjing are various foods made from ducks and geese, including sweet-scented osmanthus salted duck, Nanjing salted duck, duck blood vermicelli soup, dried duck gizzards, Dongshan roast goose, etc.
Another characteristic of Nanjing people’s diet is the popularity of various wild vegetables, including artemisia, chrysanthemum brains, malan heads, wolfberry heads, shepherd’s purse, purslane, goose intestines, and Chinese toon heads (also known as dry eight fresh vegetables).
In addition, there are the so-called eight delicacies of water, which refer to fish, water chestnut, lotus root, water melon, wild rice, chicken head fruit, lotus root, and cress.
Nanjing’s snacks are also rich in varieties, including Wang eggs, live beads, duck blood vermicelli soup, beef vermicelli soup, duck fat cakes, dried shredded dried vegetables, braised dried chicken in chicken sauce, braised tea eggs, Yin’s chicken soup dumplings, and glutinous rice
Lotus root, spiced quail eggs, plum blossom cake, sweet-scented osmanthus and taro seedlings, tofu curd, sweet-scented osmanthus and adzuki bean yuanxiao, jelly, spiced beans, etc.
The main gathering places for snacks in Nanjing include Confucius Temple, Lion Bridge (near Hunan Road), Gan Family Courtyard, etc. Among them, Qifang Pavilion, Kuiguang Pavilion, Jiang Youji, Yonghe Garden, and Liufengju in the Confucius Temple area are all
A famous traditional snack shop in Nanjing, the specialty snacks produced are called "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai".
Liu Changxing Noodle House is a famous noodle restaurant in Nanjing.
The century-old Han Fuxing is a famous salted duck and salted duck restaurant in Nanjing.
The so-called "Eight Wonders of Qinhuai" refer to 16 famous snacks from eight snack restaurants in Beijing: Kuiguang Pavilion's spiced tea eggs and spiced beans; Yonghe Garden's crab shell yellow sesame cakes and Kaiyang dried silk; Qifang Pavilion's
Duck fat pancakes and sesame oil dried shreds; Liufengju’s scallion pancakes and tofu nao’er; Qifangge’s assorted vegetable buns and shredded chicken noodles; Jiang Youji’s beef pot stickers and beef soup; Zhanyuan Noodle House’s thin-skin dumplings and red noodles
Fish noodles in soup; five-color cakes from Lianhu Cake Shop, and small Lantern Festival snacks filled with sweet-scented osmanthus. Dashiba Street in Confucius Temple and Lion Bridge on Hunan Road are famous food streets, with many special snacks, such as aftertaste duck blood vermicelli,
Lion's Head at Shiwangfu, Yin's Chicken Soup Buns, Lianhu Cake Ball Shop, "Unforgettable" Pickled Fish, Green Liuju, etc.
In addition, many gourmet restaurants scattered around Xinjiekou and Nanda are also recommended by many netizens.
Nanjing snacks are famous throughout the country.
Other snacks include steamed dumplings, boiled dried shredded noodles, duck blood vermicelli, Ruyi braised dried noodles, assorted tofu, Zhuangyuan beans, salted duck, steamed dumplings, Wang eggs, stinky tofu, live beads, Nannong roast chicken, etc.