Nanjing Travel Food Guide 1: Specialty Restaurant Jinling Hotel Meiyuan Restaurant: After all, it is "second to none" hotel, the "antique" decoration reveals the "old gentleman's demeanor", and you can feel the "historical elegance and nobility" when you are in it;

The waiters were also "warm and attentive".

Meiyuan Restaurant specializes in "authentic Huaiyang cuisine" with "rich" varieties, "fine" ingredients, "exquisite" products and "light" taste.

In particular, salted duck is "very famous", the meat is "extremely tender", "fat and lean", and "moderately salty".

Although the price is "expensive", it is "worth the money".

Nanjing Tourism Food Guide 2: Special Snacks, Local Dishes Ruyi Hui Lu Gan Ru Yi Hui Lu Gan Legend has it 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 incognito and saw a snack shop fried tofu on the street.

Fruit, fragrant and golden in color, can't help but increase your appetite.

He took out a piece of silver and asked the shopkeeper to give him a bowl of Ruyi Hui Lugan to enjoy.

Seeing that he was a wealthy gentleman, the shopkeeper immediately put the dried Ruyi Hui Lu into a chicken soup pot, cooked it with a small amount of soybean sprouts and seasonings, and cooked it until the tofu was soft and tasty. Zhu Yuanzhang praised it repeatedly after eating it.

From then on, fried tofu became popular and has been passed down to this day.

Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts when cooking, and its shape is very similar to the jade Ruyi in ancient jade, it is called Ruyi Hui Lugan.

Nanjing Tourism Food Guide 3: Food Street, Food Court Lion Bridge Food Street Lion Bridge Pedestrian Food Street is located in the middle section of Hunan Road in Nanjing, with a total length of 330 meters and a width of 12-16 meters.

The entire line is paved with granite, poles and lines are laid underground, and public facilities such as colorful landscape dry fountains, flower pots, landscape street lights, leisure chairs, and public telephone booths are newly built.

All residential buildings along the street have been transformed into European styles.

And a "Nine-Nine" Lion Archway was erected, which became the landmark building of Lion Bridge.

You can eat a variety of Nanjing delicacies here, and there are various shops nearby.

The following are recommended Nanjing specialties: Nanjing duck delicacies Nanjing delicacies - Jinling Roast Duck Nanjing's duck preparation technology has a long history and was recorded as early as the Southern Dynasties more than 1,400 years ago.

Nanjing's duck dishes are famous throughout the country. In addition to Jinling roast duck, duck, salted duck, roast duck, Jinling sauce duck, crispy duck, eight-treasure pearl duck, salted duck gizzards, etc. also have their own characteristics.

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 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 and sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings from Lianhu Cake Shop.

Some of these stores have gone out of business, and some stores are only of this level, so don’t be superstitious.

Many restaurants in Confucius Temple offer snack packages, allowing you to taste all the eight specialties of Qinhuai in one go. For example, Qifangge Youtang’s dim sum package is available in two flavors: 50 yuan and 80 yuan.

You can also try it at larger restaurants such as Qinhuai Renjia, VIP Building, and Zhuangyuan Building. The taste is guaranteed, but the price must be more than 100 yuan.

Duck blood vermicelli In Nanjing, there are many stalls selling duck blood soup.

The smart stall owner of duck blood soup cooked the duck blood in advance, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pot. When he saw tourists coming, he took out the duck blood and put it in a white porcelain bowl, and then poured a ladle of hot soup over it.

Add a few drops of sesame oil, sprinkle with a pinch of dried shrimps, duck liver and duck casings, etc., and add a pinch of coriander.

Customers who like spicy food can also add some chili oil or pepper for a fragrant, spicy and delicious taste.

Nanjing Dry Silk Nanjing Dry Silk "Nanjing Dry Silk" has a unique production method that is different from other cities.

Those tender but not old, dry but not shredded shreds are all specially made by tofu shops. Cut the tofu into thin shreds, cook it with various soups, and mix it with sesame oil and high-quality soy sauce (locally known as "Sanfuqiuqiu").

"Soy sauce), refreshing in the mouth and with a long aftertaste.

Varieties: The original Nanjing dried shredded silk had several types: vegetarian soup and boiled pork shreds, and meat and oil shredded pork. After the Republic of China, new varieties continued to increase.

In the mosque, you can find shredded roasted duck, dried shredded Kaiyang, etc.; in the meat restaurant, you can find shredded spring bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, dried crab roe, dried chicken, etc.

Salted duck Salted duck is marinated and air-dried. There are two types: cured salted duck and spring salted duck.

Because its meat is tender and tight, like a slab, it is called salted duck.

History: Nanjing salted duck is famous both at home and abroad.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the folk song "ancient academy, glazed pagoda, black satin, salted salted duck" spread in Nanjing, which shows that Nanjing's salted duck has long been famous.

The production technology of Nanjing salted duck has a history of more than 600 years. By the Qing Dynasty, local officials always selected new salted ducks with better quality to pay tribute to the royal family, so it was also called "tribute duck"; imperial officials exchanged salted ducks as gifts during mutual visits.

It is a gift, so it is also known as "official gift salted duck".

The above is the recommendation of Nanjing’s special food. I hope my friends can taste the authentic Nanjing food in Nanjing.