The Spring Festival is coming, so what you can't miss is a hearty New Year's Eve dinner. So, what shall we eat? Today, Xiaobian will tell you what delicious food Nanjing people want to eat on New Year's Eve! So everyone can have a taste when they come to Nanjing! Jambalaya

One dish that Nanjing people always have on the dinner table is jambalaya. Old Nanjing people called such dishes "old dishes" and "ten dishes", which are said to have been handed down from the Six Dynasties to the present. Jambalaya is not only delicious, but also each dish has its own meaning. Braised silver carp

A big silver carp is one of the indispensable dishes of the old Nanjing people. After the silver carp is cooked, it is put on a long plate and put on the table solemnly, but this dish is just a decoration, so you should never eat it, because it means "there is more than one year" and you can't eat it until the next year (Lantern Festival). Braised hairtail

means "more than one generation", because the rest of the fish is homophonic, and the rest of it symbolizes that in the new year, life is more than enough. Smoked fish

The fish on the cold dish is smoked fish, which is delicious and crisp. Old Nanjing people also call smoked fish "fried fish", which not only means "more than one year", but also means "outbreak". Of course, you should eat more pieces when eating. Braised lion head

is also called Four Joy Meetballs. It is a dish that China often eats on holidays. Four Joy Meetballs is composed of four meatballs with golden color, overflowing fragrance and vivid shape, which symbolizes happiness, longevity and happiness in life, so as to take its auspicious meaning. There is no limit to the number of lion heads on the dining table! Egg dumplings

Nanjing people's love for egg dumplings is well known to all ages, so there must be an egg dumpling on this New Year's Eve table, which means "making a fortune".

beat the eggs evenly with chopsticks, then drop a few drops of sunflower seed oil, then pour the eggs into an iron spoon and bake them above the flame of the gas stove, and a thin egg dumpling skin will be made. Pick some meat and put it in the middle of the dumpling skin, and when the two sides are combined, a Huang Chengcheng egg dumpling will be made. It will be cooked with seasoning and taste delicious. Yuanbao eggs

In addition, old Nanjing people will prepare Yuanbao eggs during the Spring Festival. Yuanbao egg is actually a tea egg, which means to hope for good luck in the coming year, one for each person, and the meaning of future generations. (Now eating tea eggs is a symbol of local tyrants. Haha) Fried spring rolls

Spring rolls are made of leeks, shredded chicken and dried noodles, which are fried and fried. Because the fried spring rolls are golden in color, they are like gold bars. People put a plate of spring rolls on the holiday table, and there is a auspicious meaning of "golden two thousand". A bite is crunchy and full of fragrance. Fried dumplings

One by one, the mellow sound makes the flavor of the year stronger and stronger. Dry stew or soup, fried dumplings are delicious. Vegetable bean curd

Nanjing people always serve a vegetable bean curd soup on New Year's Eve dinner. The traditional saying is to keep safe and get lucky. In fact, whenever the Spring Festival, people will eat big fish and big meat, and their appetite is tired. Suddenly, a green, clear and refreshing vegetable bean curd soup suddenly feels fresh. Sausage with fragrant belly and bacon

Sausage with fragrant belly and bacon is also a good cold dish, and fragrant belly is a famous specialty in Nanjing, which was commonly called "little belly" in old Nanjing. Its meat is tight, red and white, delicious and slightly sweet. It is more representative of Nanjing's characteristics to use this as a cold dish. Braised pork hands

Braised pork hands can be eaten in many ways, such as stewed pork hands, steamed pork hands with vegetables, peanut pork hands, etc. Because pork hands imply that you will get rich if you do anything smoothly. Babao rice

Babao rice is full in weight and sweet in taste, and it is most suitable for the whole family to enjoy, symbolizing reunion and roundness, so it has the most annual flavor. As soon as the eight-treasure rice is served, it is steady, the eight treasures gather together and "round and integrated", which is the most indispensable taste of traditional New Year's Eve. Stir-fried dried Artemisia argyi

Nanjing people like to eat wild vegetables, Artemisia argyi is one of them, and foreign friends may not have eaten it. Artemisia selengensis has a clear fragrance when fried, and people who are not used to it may think it tastes like medicine, but if they are used to it, they will become addicted and chew it nonstop! Artemisia argyi should be accompanied by smelly dry frying, and one fragrance and one smell are the most harmonious! Salted duck

Nanjing people's love for ducks is really unspeakable! Eating a salted duck with duck fragrance on the New Year's Eve table is the standard for a reunion year! Preserved egg

Preserved egg is a traditional flavor egg product of Han nationality in China, and it must be served on holidays. (I feel that I will only eat it during the Chinese New Year ...) Sixi Baked Bran

Sixi Baked Bran is a home-cooked dish of Nanjing people and one of the classic cold dishes in the New Year's Eve dinner. The so-called four happiness is that in addition to the main ingredient baked bran, you must also add four ingredients: mushrooms, day lily, black fungus and peanuts. This dish fully satisfies Nanjing's sweet nature, so it is deeply loved. Cold radish with foreign flowers

"As the saying goes: Nanjing radish. The foreign flower radish is a favorite vegetable of Nanjing people, but whenever it is sold in the vegetable market, it will be bought and eaten cold at home. Assorted casserole

A "pot" that old Nanjing must eat must belong to the assorted casserole of old Nanjing. As a traditional famous dish in Nanjing, the outstanding feature of this dish is the expensive ingredients. As we all know, jambalaya was originally a street snack. When cooking jambalaya, the famous Zhang Daqian added more than a dozen delicious materials such as sea cucumber, abalone and fresh shrimp, thus creating a assorted casserole. Stir-fried lily with celery and ginkgo

New Year's Eve dinner is bound to be big fish and big meat, so we should also pay attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables. Simple and easy to do, it is the icing on the cake when preparing a table of good dishes. Tangyuan

In the early morning of the first day, every household in Nanjing must eat tangyuan or rice cakes, which means happy, round and round, and high every year. Generally, it is to eat glutinous rice balls or rice cakes. The stuffing of glutinous rice balls includes white sugar, jujube paste, sesame and so on. Happy ball syrup

When a new year's day guest comes home to pay New Year's greetings, he should bring a bowl of syrup to the guest, and put a "happy ball" in it, which means sweetness and joy. Tu Su wine

Old Nanjing people used to drink Tu Su wine on the first day of the morning. This custom began in the Southern Dynasties, and Nanjing people have been drinking it for thousands of years, and a set of regulations has been formed: when the sun rises, they will face the East and "drink it from less to longer". Young people drink first, old people drink later, and take the rising sun to make progress. Going home for the Spring Festival

is also called soup. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together to eat Fushou soup. Fushou decoction is made from "red dates, Fujian lotus seeds, water chestnuts and natural wild water chestnuts", which means "Hongfu Qitian". Stir-fried rice and old hen soup

Every year, my mother cooks this pot of fresh soup with pure old hen, which smells delicious and makes people unable to resist its temptation! Stewed for most of the day, the delicious secret is to put fried rice. It's delicious, and you have to drink a big bowl every time, which is the favorite of the old people.

Well, Xiaobian told you what Nanjing people want to eat for the New Year's Eve dinner. If you want to come to Nanjing for the New Year, you can also try the food here!