Nanjing snacks hold up half the sky of the food world. How many of them have you tried?
Nanjing snacks, thanks to their long history and wide variety, have been passed down since the Six Dynasties period and number as many as a hundred or more kinds. Nanjing snack food is famous nationwide and ranks first among China's four great snack categories. The main gathering places include Confucius Temple, Lion Bridge, and the Gan Family Compound, among others. Dashiba Street at Confucius Temple and Lion Bridge on Hunan Road are famous food streets, with many distinctive food snacks. Now let's take a look together!
The first snack: assorted doufunao, a famous Nanjing snack belonging to Jinling cuisine and Jinling snacks. In Nanjing, doufunao is also called "dou bu lao," which in the Nanjing dialect means doufunao or doufuhua (jellied tofu). Nanjing's doufunao pays great attention to its seasonings, supplemented with more than ten kinds of condiments such as dried shrimp, pickled mustard tuber, wood ear mushroom, chopped scallions, chili oil, and sesame oil. Not only is the color beautiful, but the flavor is even more mellow, rich, fragrant, and fresh, with a well-balanced saltiness and moderate spiciness, full of flavor. Its special feature is the addition of assorted vegetables to the jellied tofu, expressing the meaning of a bright future. When traveling in Nanjing, this famous Nanjing snack is not to be missed.
The second snack: beef pot stickers, a traditional Nanjing snack belonging to Jinling cuisine and Jinling snacks. It is a pan-fried stuffed food, shaped like a dumpling but slightly more slender than a dumpling. Beef pot stickers are one of the Eight Treasures of Qinhuai in Jinling. They are made with beef as the filling, wrapped into dumpling shapes with a dough wrapper, then placed in an oiled pan and fried until golden brown before being plated and eaten. This snack, sweet with a hint of saltiness, has a tender top and a crisp bottom, and the beef filling is delicious with a distinctive taste. It is a Nanjing specialty snack, and when tasting Nanjing snacks, you naturally cannot miss it.
The third snack: five-spice eggs, a famous Nanjing snack belonging to Jinling snacks and one of the Eight Treasures of Qinhuai, also called five-spice eggs or five-spice tea eggs. In Nanjing, there is a legend about five-spice eggs. A couple living in the old south of the city ran a small business. The husband had no appetite, so the wife specially made five-spice eggs for him to eat, and they suited his taste perfectly. Later, the husband went out to do business and lost money, and for a long time did not dare to go home. One day he heard the cry of someone selling five-spice eggs, went out to look, and it turned out to be his wife who had come to find him. He was overjoyed. After eating the five-spice eggs and smelling the scent of fennel, he conceived the idea of returning home, and so he followed his wife back to Nanjing city. This snack is not only tasty, but also has such a touching story, which has made it widely famous.
The fourth snack: plum blossom cake, a famous flavorful specialty snack of the Jiangnan region. It originated in the Ming Dynasty, and by the Qing Dynasty it had become the most famous traditional specialty cake snack in the Jiangnan region. Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong toured Jiangnan, he saw that it was shaped like a plum blossom with an enticing color, so he tasted it. It was sweet but not greasy, moderately soft and crisp, with an endless aftertaste, better than imperial court pastries, and he clapped his hands in delight. Because it is shaped like a plum blossom, he bestowed the name plum blossom cake, which has been passed down to this day. Plum blossom cake is also a flavorful snack of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Wuxi. This cake is golden yellow, shaped like a plum blossom, soft and delicious, suitable for all ages. This snack is really delicious, so you definitely must not miss it!
The fifth snack: Yin's chicken broth soup dumplings. It is a home-style snack shop somewhat famous in Nanjing. The soup dumpling wrappers here are very thin, yet they do not easily break when picked up. Lift them slowly and put them in your mouth, and the rich chicken broth inside the dumplings flows into your mouth, fresh and sweet. When you are tired from shopping, come here to enjoy a basket of soup dumplings with a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup, and you will feel relaxed and comfortable. I believe you will definitely fall in love with this snack. Nanjing's snacks hold up half of Nanjing's sky. How many of the snacks introduced above have you tried? If you have not tried them yet, you can give them a taste. They are really delicious! You are welcome to leave comments, like, and follow.