Jinling Hotel Meiyuan Restaurant: in the end is the "premier" restaurant, "antique" decoration through the "old gentleman's style ", in which you can feel the "history of elegance and dignity"; waiters are also "warm and thoughtful". Plum Garden Restaurant specializes in "authentic Huaiyang cuisine", with "rich" varieties, "superior" materials, "exquisite" products and "exquisite" flavors. "The taste is "light". Especially salt water duck "very famous", meat "extremely tender", "fat and thin clear", salty and fresh "moderate". The price is "expensive", but "value for money".

Nanjing Tourism Food Guide II: snacks, local dishes

Ruyi back to brine dry

Ruyi back to brine dry

The legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne in the Jinling Mountains, tired of eating the palace of the mountains and the sea, one day out of the palace in microdisguise, in the street to see a snack store fried oil tofu fruit, the fragrance of the four overflowing, the color of the gold, can not help but increase the appetite. He took out a silver ingot to shopkeepers will be like a bowl of back to halogen dry for him to enjoy. Shopkeeper see him is a rich gentleman, immediately will be like back to brine dry into the chicken soup pot, with a small amount of soybean sprouts and seasonings with cooking, cooking to the tofu fruit soft and flavorful to send, Zhu Yuanzhang ate and then praised. From then on, oil tofu is popular for a while, passed down to this day. Because Nanjing people often add bean sprouts in the firing, and its shape is very similar to the ancient jade jade so it is called Ruyi back to halo dry.

Nanjing Tourism Food Tips 3: Food Street, Food Court

Lion Bridge Food Street

Lion Bridge Walking Food Street is located in the middle of Hunan Road in Nanjing, a total length of 330 meters, 12-16 meters wide. The whole line is paved with granite, poles and wires down to the ground, and newly built colorful landscape dry fountains, flower pots, landscape street lamps, leisure chairs, public telephone booths and other public facilities. Residential buildings along the street all European-style new. And erected a "nine nine" lion plaque, become a landmark of the Lion Bridge. Here you can eat a variety of Nanjing cuisine, there are also a variety of stores in the neighborhood.

The following are the recommended specialties of Nanjing:

Nanjing Duck Cuisine

Nanjing Cuisine - Jinling Roast Duck

Nanjing's duck-making technique has a long history of fame, and was recorded as early as in the period of the Southern Dynasty, which is more than 1400 years ago. Duck dishes in Nanjing are famous all over the country. In addition to Jinling Roast Duck, plate duck, brine duck, roast duck, Jinling Sauce Duck, crispy duck, eight treasures pearl duck, salted duck gizzard and so on are also distinctive.

The Eight Best of Qinhuai

The so-called "Eight Best of Qinhuai"

The sixteen famous dishes of eight snack halls in Nanjing are:

The five-spiced tea eggs and five-spiced beans of Kui Kwang Pavilion, the crab-shelled yellow biscuits and dried shreds of open ocean of Yong He Yuan, the duck-oil-crusted biscuits and dried shreds of sesame oil of Qifang Pavilion, the green onion pancakes and tofu brains of Liufengjiu and the green onion pancakes and tofu nuts of Lifengjiu. scallion pancakes and bean curd brains;

Qifang Court's mixed vegetable buns and noodles with shredded chicken; Jiang Yuji's beef pot stickers and beef soup;

Jingyuan Noodle House's thin-skinned dumplings and noodles with popped fish in red broth; and Lianhu Gao Duan's five-color cakes and osmanthus-centered snacks.

Some of these stores have gone out of business, and some are no better than that, so don't be superstitious. Many restaurants in Fuzhimiao have snack packages, so you can try all eight of them at once, such as Qifangge, which has a dine-in snack package of 50 yuan and

80 yuan. You can also go to larger restaurants such as Qinhuai People's House, Guibin House and Scholar's House, where you can be assured of the taste, but the price is more than 100 yuan.

Duck blood vermicelli

Stalls selling duck blood soup are dotted around Nanjing.

Duck Blood Soup

Savvy stallholders pre-cook the duck blood, cut it into small pieces and put it in a pot. When they see a tourist coming, they fish out the duck blood and put it in a white porcelain bowl, then pour a spoonful of boiling hot fresh soup, drizzle on a few drops of sesame oil, sprinkle a pinch of shrimp and duck liver and duck intestinal coat, and order a pinch of cilantro. Guests who love spicy food can also add some more chili oil or pepper, and fragrant, spicy, delicious flavor.

Nanjing Dried Silk

Nanjing Dried Silk

"Nanjing Dried Silk" has a set of unique production methods different from those of other cities. Those tender and not old, dry and not crumbled dry silk, are made of tofu store special, will be cut into thin strands of tofu, with a variety of soups cooked, mixed with sesame oil and the best soy sauce (locally known as the "three volts pumping autumn" soy sauce), the mouth is refreshing and long aftertaste.

Varieties: the original Nanjing dry silk has a vegetarian soup vegetarian boiled and meat oil meat several, after the Republic of China, new varieties continue to increase. In the mosque, there are roast duck dry silk, open ocean dry silk, etc.; in the meat restaurant there are spring bamboo shoots dry silk, dried mushrooms dry silk, dried crab meat dry silk, chicken dry silk, etc..

Panel Duck

Panel Duck

Panel Duck is cured and air-dried with salt brine, and is divided into two types: waxed duck and spring duck. The meat is so tender and compact that it looks like a board, hence the name.

History: Nanjing duck is famous in China and abroad. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nanjing was rumored to be "the ancient academy, the glazed tower, the basil satin, the salted duck." The ballad, visible Nanjing duck has long had a good reputation. Nanjing duck production technology has more than 600 years of history, to the Qing Dynasty, local officials always select the better quality of the new duck tribute to the royal family, so it is also known as "tribute duck"; court officials in the exchange of visits to the duck as a gift to each other, so there are "official gift duck" The name.

The above is the Nanjing specialties recommended, I hope friends can taste the authentic Nanjing food in Nanjing.