What are the delicious takeaways in Nanjing?

Stinky tofu, duck blood vermicelli soup, pot stickers and everything else are available 1. Qifangge’s butter sesame cakes. Qifangge is the oldest halal restaurant in the Confucius Temple area. It was founded during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and is the famous snack in Nanjing. Qin Zhun has eight unique skills, and Qifang Pavilion has two of them. Its duck fat biscuits are golden in color, crispy and delicious, and are a famous snack in Jinling. For old Nanjing residents, visiting the Confucius Temple without trying the butter sesame cakes from Qifang Pavilion is equivalent to not visiting the Confucius Temple. 2. Yongheyuan's Kaiyang dried shreds. Nanjing's dried shreds have a unique production method. Those dried shreds that are tender but not old, dry but not broken are all specially made by the tofu shop. They are finely shredded, fragrant with sesame oil, and have high-quality soy sauce. . The original Nanjing dried shreds include vegetarian soup, boiled pork 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. The Kaiyang Kaisi at Confucius Temple Yongheyuan, which is famous for its snacks, is second to none. 3. Kuiguang Pavilion's Five-Spice Beans Five-spice beans are also called "Zhuangyuan Beans" because candidates in Jiangnan Gongyuan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties liked to bring spiced beans to take exams. This bean is made from broad beans, and it is still spread in Nanjing today. Children's song: "Spice beans are really fragrant. Eat the ones in the city that are the most fragrant outside the city..." Currently, Kuiguang Pavilion in Confucius Temple maintains the authentic taste of Nanjing's spiced beans. When it comes to Kui Guang Ge’s five-spice beans, it’s inseparable from the store’s other signature snack, five-spice eggs. Five-spice eggs can be found all over the country, but it’s Kui Guang Ge’s that really makes the specialty and taste better. Kuiguang Pavilion's spiced beans and spiced eggs are known as the "unparalleled twins" among snacks. 4. An Leuan’s vegetarian buns. Among Nanjing’s traditional snacks, steamed buns have the deepest roots and are authentic old Nanjing products. At present, in addition to the famous vegetarian steamed buns of An Leuan on Wangfu Street, Ma Xiangxing Muslim Restaurant, Luliuju Vegetarian Restaurant, Qifang Pavilion, VIP Restaurant, etc. are also famous far and wide. 5. Jinling Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup at the Presidential Palace. It is said that if you don’t drink duck blood vermicelli soup, you haven’t eaten Nanjing’s snacks. But among the duck blood vermicelli soup restaurants that are everywhere in Nanjing, the most famous one is the Jinling duck blood vermicelli soup restaurant located next to the Presidential Palace. A piece of duck blood is put into the mouth, it is pink and smooth, and when you take a sip of the soup, thousands of flavors will linger on your tongue. The emerald green coriander, crystal vermicelli, and floating duck gizzards, duck intestines, and duck liver are more finely chopped and tantalizing than other restaurants. (However, it has been closed for renovation, and the one in Confucius Temple is OK) 6. Wang eggs in Suojin Village There is only one kind of happy egg in Shanghai. There are also phoenix eggs in the Jiangnan area, which are half chicken and half egg that have not hatched. The difference in Nanjing is that the same thing as in Shanghai is called "Wang Egg", but the ones in Shanghai are made with five-spice soy sauce, while the ones in Nanjing are boiled in salt water. There is also a kind called "living beads", which are taken out and cooked after only 15 days of incubation. Eggs and live beads can be found everywhere in streets, alleys and markets, but Suojin Village in Nanjing is the best and most well-known. Of course, whether it’s eggs or live beads, don’t try it easily if you don’t have the guts. 7. Yaode Cake Although Yaode specializes in hot pot, there is one well-known snack that attracts Nanjing diners to flock here. This is the Yaode Cake named after the Yaode brand. Yaode cake is round, similar in size and shape to Nanjing's pumpkin cake. It uses potatoes and sweet potatoes as the main raw materials, with sweet potatoes as the main ingredient. It is fried into a light yellow color. It is soft, glutinous and sweet in the mouth. For urbanites who are used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas, sweet potatoes, which are slightly sweet and fat-free, are the first snack to regulate the gastrointestinal tract. Of course, the price is also cheaper. A piece of Yaode cake only costs 1 yuan. 8. Yiji Pidu Noodles Nowadays, Pidu Noodles are all the rage. Although there are many sellers, the most authentic one is the Widow’s Mian in Mingwa Lang in Xinjiekou. The belly is well fried and soaked, and tastes juicy; the top is chewy; and most importantly, it's spicy! Must try... 9. Nanjing Confucius Temple Qinhuai Snacks The "Ten Miles of Qinhuai" in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has always been known as "the area of ??glory, mist, and gold powder." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this place was very prosperous for a while, with river halls and river houses, green windows and red doors, living on the bank. Every sunny day, the light boat winds like a fire dragon, and is known as "the Qin Dynasty's light boat is the best in the world". Confucius Temple is a pearl embedded in the "Ten Miles of Qinhuai" and has always been a prosperous commercial and cultural area. During the Six Dynasties, many waterside restaurants were set up along the Qinhuai River and Qingxi. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were even more prosperous. Nowadays, restaurants, tea houses, restaurants, and snack shops abound in the Confucius Temple area. In the center of Confucius Temple alone, there are more than 200 kinds of snacks of different colors and varieties.

The existing restaurants in Confucius Temple are mainly divided into four major categories: "Jiao Bang" (Islam), "Jingsu Bang", "Zhejiang Shao Bang" and "Huaiyang Bang". Most of these Bangkou specialty stores are concentrated on the T-shaped Gongyuan Street and Gongyuan West Street. Confucius Temple snacks are salty, sweet, meat and vegetable, with unique flavors, and are popular in spring, summer, autumn and winter. For example, the shepherd's purse pancakes and vegetable and meat steamed buns in spring; the thousand-layer oil cake and flowering steamed buns in summer; the crab roe shaomai and shredded radish cakes in autumn; and the five-nut steamed buns and crystal steamed buns in winter. Through the hard work and deliberate innovation of pastry chefs, Confucius Temple snacks have been elevated to snack banquets and snack banquets, forming a series of snacks in Chinese recipes. "Wanqinglou", a collection of Qinhuai snacks, is famous far and wide. When you step into the restaurant, the decoration is unique: the dining table is a train seat. Several screens are used to separate the scattered dining tables, and the guests sit opposite each other. On the dining table are antique covered porcelain tea bowls. The sound of Jiangnan silk and bamboo music floats gently and continuously from every corner. It is really elegant and quiet. Before the formal snacks begin, a few appetizers will be served. The waitress brought a plate of red rock candy balls to the guests. There are five hawthorns strung on each stick, and each hawthorn has an opening, and green plums, red dates, kernels, and peanuts are embedded respectively, wishing the guests that they will always smile. Next is a bowl of shrimp balls in tomato sauce, a cup of steamed chicken breast and a plate of cold radish. The cups, cups, bowls, and plates served on the table are all small and cute, with only an inch to spare. v9-\R&There are six main dishes***. The first course is spiced eggs, Zhuangyuan beans and Yuhua tea. The No. 1 Scholar Bean is actually a spiced bean. Since ancient times, this place has been the tribute courtyard for the national college entrance examination. To bring good luck to the candidates, the spiced bean has become the "No. 1 Scholar Bean". The second course is fried shredded radish cake with tofu curd. Chew the crispy cake and drink a few mouthfuls of hot and tender tofu curd. It is fragrant and refreshing. The fourth course is assorted vegetable buns with Ruyi Braised Braised Dried Dried Vegetables. Ruyi, that is, bean sprouts, is used as an auspicious embellishment. The braised dried bean curd is cooked with a special bean product that is between the softness of oil tofu and dried tofu. It is stewed for a long time and is very delicious. The fifth course is beef pot stickers served with Qiong Yun. Qiongyun is served with shredded chicken, fungus, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, steamed in a small steamer, and when the lid is removed, the fungus, mushrooms, etc. float on top, like pieces of Qiongyun. The sixth course is sand buns with sugared lotus root porridge. Lotus root is porous, wishing customers good luck in their careers. After the snack is finished, a long banana is given as a gift, wishing to "keep friends" with the guests, and invite everyone to come again in the future. Each of these six dishes and twelve snacks is only a little bit, which is quite like running a house in childhood; but after one meal, you are already very full. Before leaving, each guest is given a pair of zodiac chopsticks as a souvenir according to their different zodiac signs. Tourists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan pay special attention to this pair of chopsticks because they imply the meaning of "get rich quickly". If you walk around the streets of Confucius Temple, you will find dozens of snack bars in a radius of about 100 meters from Wende Bridge to Wenyuan Bridge. Each family has its own characteristics and unique abilities. Yongheyuan near Wenyuan Bridge is a well-established Huaiyang flavor restaurant. There are soft, tender and delicious dry shredded silk; steamed buns with moderate salty and sweet taste, oily but not greasy; Huangqiao Shaobing with fragrant aroma and strong aftertaste; the most popular among them is "different colored dim sum", with ten pieces and five pieces per basket. Various varieties, both meat and vegetables, sweet and salty. In addition, there are various excellent restaurants launched according to the seasons, such as Liufengju adjacent to Yonghe Garden, which is famous for its traditional scallion pancakes and tofu puffs. Tofu brain is supplemented with more than ten kinds of seasonings such as dried shrimps, pickled mustard, fungus, spicy oil, sesame oil, etc. It has a mellow, rich, fragrant and fresh taste. Qifangge and Jiang Youji are two well-known halal snack shops. Their mixed vegetable buns, duck fat pancakes, beef pot stickers and beef soup are highly favored by the public. Lianhu Pavilion on Gongyuan West Street is famous for sweets such as sweet-scented osmanthus yuanxiao, double-color cakes, and sugar porridge. In addition to the dozens of snack bars mentioned above, there are countless food stalls in the Confucius Temple area. The freshly made and eaten glutinous rice cakes, steamed dumplings, shaved jelly, Sixi Yuanxiao, sugar-fried chestnuts, chicken and duck blood soup, fried quail, etc. are colorful and fragrant, and the business is very prosperous. .11. Salted duck market price: 5-7 yuan/jin Vacuum packaging: 11-13/jin Hotels and restaurants: 10-25/case Salted duck is a famous specialty of Nanjing with a history of more than a thousand years. Its skin The white meat is tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and has the characteristics of fragrant, crispy and tender. The salted duck around the Mid-Autumn Festival has the best color and taste every year. Because the duck is made during the blooming season of sweet-scented osmanthus, it is also known as: sweet-scented osmanthus duck. Osmanthus duck is "clear and purposeful, and you won't get tired of eating it for a long time", making it a good food to drink with wine. It seems to have become a secular etiquette in Nanjing to go out on the street to buy a bowl of salted duck during festivals or when visitors come to your home on weekdays.

12. Market price of Yuhua tea (special grade): more than 100 yuan/jin Market price (first level): more than 60 yuan/jin Market price (second level): 40-60 yuan/jin Market price (third level): 20-40 Yuan/jin Yuhua tea is a specialty of Nanjing and one of the top ten famous teas in the country. It has a round green shape, vertical cords, tall and straight branches, and white hair, just like pine needles, symbolizing the unyielding and everlasting heroic image of the revolutionary martyrs, so it is named Yuhua Tea. Yuhua tea has excellent color, fragrance, taste and shape. After brewing, the tea color is green and clear, the aroma is elegant, the taste is mellow, and the aftertaste is sweet. It has the functions of quenching thirst and refreshing the mind, digesting food and diuresis, treating asthma, eliminating phlegm, and relieving irritability and greasiness. It has been selling well overseas since 1966. In Japan and Southeast Asia, people use Yuhua tea as precious gifts to give to relatives and friends. 13. Liuhe beef breast Liuhe beef breast, known as "pot beef breast" in ancient times, was a tribute from the Qing court and is a traditional local specialty. It has a history of more than 500 years. It uses fattened ox foreleg meat as the main ingredient, soy sauce, salt, and rock sugar as auxiliary ingredients, and is refined using unique traditional techniques. It has beautiful color, delicious taste and rich aroma. It is fresh, fragrant, crispy, translucent and refreshing after entering the mouth. It is salty and sweet, sweet and fresh, fresh and fragrant, crisp but not greasy, with endless aftertaste. It is a must-have among beef delicacies. Won the Panama International Gold Medal in 1915. 14. Duck gizzards Market price: 18-22 yuan/catty Hotels and restaurants: 10-25 yuan/case Duck gizzards are one of the famous local specialties of Nanjing. They are popular both at home and abroad and are as famous as salted duck. It has a history of more than 200 years. Nanjing duck gizzards are oblate in shape, fine in texture, and easy to carry. The gizzard meat is firm and chewy, has a long-lasting flavor, and is not greasy. It is a delicacy that is loved by young and old alike. 15. Salted duck Market price: 13-16 yuan/jin Nanjing 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. The production technology of Nanjing salted duck has a history of more than 600 years. In 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 "mercury duck"; imperial officials also used salted duck as gifts during mutual visits. They give each other gifts, so they are also known as "official gift salted duck". 16. Market price of Yuhua tea (special grade): more than 100 yuan/jin Market price (first level): more than 60 yuan/jin Market price (second level): 40-60 yuan/jin Market price (third level): 20-40 Yuan/jin Yuhua tea is a specialty of Nanjing and one of the top ten famous teas in the country. It has a round green shape, vertical cords, tall and straight branches, and white hair, just like pine needles, symbolizing the unyielding and everlasting heroic image of the revolutionary martyrs, so it is named Yuhua Tea. Yuhua tea has excellent color, fragrance, taste and shape. After brewing, the tea color is green and clear, the aroma is elegant, the taste is mellow, and the aftertaste is sweet. It has the functions of quenching thirst and refreshing the mind, digesting food and diuresis, treating asthma, eliminating phlegm, and relieving irritability and greasiness. Since 1966, it has been selling well overseas. In Japan and Southeast Asia, people use Yuhua tea as precious gifts to give to relatives and friends. 17. Cherry Nanjing is a famous cherry producing area in my country. Mostly produced in Xuanwu Lake area. Yingzhou in Xuanwu Lake is named after its abundant cherries. Varieties include Dongtang, Chuisi, Qingye, etc. Dongtang cherries are the best. They are large and delicious, juicy and colorful, and of excellent quality. 18. Lily, a traditional specialty of Nanjing, also known as the lily, is produced in Zhongshan and other places with lush plants in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing. The skin is white, the meat is plump, sweet and delicate, and can be stored for a long time. There are also Dongshan old goose, Jiangning bone soup, and Majiayu pickled fish