Where in Nanjing is there a lot of delicious food?

Catering introduction

Nanjing cuisine has always been called Jingsu cuisine, and the chefs call themselves "Jingsu gang".

Nanjing cuisine is famous for its rigorous selection of ingredients, fine preparation, outstanding main ingredients, exquisiteness and bright colors, and its varieties are constantly updated according to the seasons. Its flavor characteristics are mainly characterized by mellow taste, moderate saltiness and wide adaptability. The dishes pay attention to the original flavor, focusing on fresh, fragrant, crispy, rotten and tender. Its shape is hard but soft, the soup is thick but fragrant, fat but not greasy, light but not thin. Crispy and fall off the bone without losing its shape, smooth and tender without losing its taste.

Nanjing’s duck-making technology has a long-standing reputation, with records dating back to 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.

In addition, Nanjing’s Longchi crucian carp is famous for its small head, large body, thick back, empty belly, tender and delicious meat. The “Eight Fresh Waters” in aquatic products are fish, water chestnut, lotus root, Wild rice stems, mushrooms, cress, chicken head fruit, and lotus pods are the best products to enrich people’s vegetable baskets during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Dashiba Street in Confucius Temple and Lion Bridge on Hunan Road are famous food streets. There are many special snacks, such as Huayue Duck Blood Vermicelli, Lion Head from Lion King Palace, Yin’s Chicken Soup Buns, etc. Must taste the opportunity.

Qinhuai Eight Wonders: The so-called "Qinhuai Eight Wonders" refer to the sixteen famous snacks in the eight snack restaurants in Beijing: Kuiguang Pavilion's spiced tea eggs and spiced beans; Yonghe Garden's crab shell yellow sesame cakes, Kaiyang dried silk; Qifangge’s duck fat fried sesame cakes 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; Zhan Youji’s beef pot stickers and beef soup; Yuan Noodle House’s thin-skin dumplings and fried fish noodles in red soup; Lianhu Cake Shop’s five-color cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings. There are also different versions, for example, some versions include halogen drying. Some stores have gone out of business, such as Kuiguang Pavilion. Some stores are only of this level and should not be superstitious. Many restaurants in Confucius Temple offer snack packages. You can try all the eight specialties of Qinhuai in one go, but it is best to find a big restaurant that can guarantee the taste. It is recommended to go to Zhuangyuan Building, VIP Building or Qinhuai Family House. Of course, the price is quite expensive (generally more than 100 yuan per person).

Special Dishes

Salted Duck

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" was circulated in Nanjing, which shows that Nanjing's salted duck has long been famous. Salted duck is made by marinating and air-drying it with salt, and is divided into two types: cured salted duck and spring salted duck. Because its meat is tender and tight, like a slab, it is called salted duck. 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".

Salted duck

Salted duck is a famous specialty of Nanjing. It has a long-standing reputation and has a history of more than a thousand years. Nanjing salted duck can be made all year round. The curing period is short. It is made and sold now. Buy it and eat it now. It should not be stored for a long time. The duck skin is white and the meat is tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and has the characteristics of fragrant, crispy and tender. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the salted duck has the best color and taste. Because the duck is made during the season when the osmanthus blooms, it is famously known as: osmanthus duck. "Baimen Cookbook" records: "During the August period in Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that the meat has the fragrance of osmanthus. "Osmanthus duck" can be eaten for a long time, and it is a good drink with wine. During festivals or when guests come to the house on weekdays, serve it Going out to buy a bowl of salted duck seems to have become a secular etiquette in Nanjing.

You can buy authentic vacuum-packed salted duck at the Osmanthus Duck Specialty Store on Hunan Road.

Snacks

Jinling’s famous snacks

Nanjing Confucius Temple is the birthplace of Jinling snacks. It has a long history and a wide variety of snacks. It was already a place where merchants gathered during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It became more prosperous in the Qing Dynasty, with restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, and snack shops everywhere, with more than 200 varieties of snacks.

With the development of urban construction, snack outlets have also continued to increase. In addition to Confucius Temple, snack outlets have also gradually formed in Hunan Road, Xinjiekou, Chaotian Palace, Changle Road, Shanxi Road, Zhongyangmen, Huimin Bridge, Yanziji and other places. A relatively concentrated group of snacks. In addition, hawking can be seen everywhere.

Famous snack bars in Nanjing include Liufengju (tofu curd, scallion pancakes, etc.), Qinyuanchun (wontons, noodles), Lianhu Dessert Shop (Suzhou-style pastries) and Jiang Youji Potstickers and Dumplings Museum, etc.

The Eight Wonders of Qinhuai in Confucius Temple

The "first wonder" is the spiced tea eggs, spiced beans, and rain flower tea from Kuiguang Pavilion;

The "two wonders" The “excellent” ones are Kaiyang dried shredded silk and crab shell yellow sesame cakes from Yonghe Garden;

The “three unique ones” are the sesame oil dried shredded silk and duck fat crispy sesame cakes from Qifang Pavilion;

The “four unique ones” The tofu dumplings and scallion pancakes from Liufengju;

The "Five Wonders" are the assorted vegetable buns and shredded chicken noodles from Qifangge;

The "Six Wonders" are from Jiang Youji Beef soup, beef hot pot;

The “Qijue” refers to the thin-skin dumplings and red-soup fried fish noodles from Zhanyuan Noodle House;

The “Eight uniqueness” refers to the sweet-scented osmanthus sandwich from Lianhu Dessert Shop Small Lantern Festival, five-color cake dumplings

And the food street in Shiziqiao~