Nanjing snacks have a long history and many varieties, up to more than 80 varieties since the Six Dynasties period. Famous snacks have meat and vegetarian, sweet and salty, in different forms. Nanjing Fuzimiao Qinhuai flavor snacks is one of the four major snack groups in China. Fuzimiao area teahouse restaurants, street snacks, full of them, forming a unique traditional characteristics of the Qinhuai food center.
After years of hard work, the Fuzimiao area, there are seven confectionery production of snacks, due to the fine craftsmanship, beautiful shape, selection of materials, unique flavor and famous, identified by experts in Nanjing Qinhuai District, the flavor of snacks will be officially named in September 1987, the eight sets of Qinhuai flavor snacks for the "eight best of Qinhuai". Former Vice President Rong Yiren in Fuzhimiao taste Qinhuai flavor snacks, inscribed banner: "snacks are delicious", also known as "eat delicious small". The eight best snacks are as follows:
The first best: Yongheyuan's Huangqiao bakery and Kaiyang dried silk
The second best: Jiang Yuji's beef soup and beef pot stickers
The third best: Liufengjiu's tofu and scallion pancakes
The fourth best: Qifengge's duck-oil crispy pancakes and assorted vegetable buns
The fifth best: Qifengge's sesame-oil veggie dried silk and shredded chicken noodles
The sixth best: Lianhu cake dumplings
The sixth best: Lianhu cake dumplings
The sixth best: Lianhu cake dumplings
Sixth best: osmanthus-centered small dumplings and five-color cakes from Lianhu Gao Duan Shop
Seventh best: smoked fish and silver thread noodles and thin-skinned dumplings from Junyuan Noodle Shop
Eighth best: five-spice beans and five-spice eggs from Kui Guang Ge
Nanjing Salt-water Duck
Salt-water duck is a famous specialty in Nanjing, which has been known for more than 1,000 years now. Nanjing salt water duck can be made all year round, marinated and re-brined for a short period of time, now do now sell, now buy now eat, should not be stored for a long time.
The duck is white and tender, fat and not greasy, fresh and flavorful, with fragrant, crispy and tender characteristics. Every year before and after the Mid-Autumn Salt Water Duck color and taste the best, because the duck is made in the season of osmanthus blooming, so the beautiful name day: osmanthus duck.
"White Gate Recipes" records: Jinling August period, salt water duck is the most famous, everyone thought that the meat inside the fragrance of osmanthus flowers. Cinnamon duck "clear and purpose, eat for a long time do not get tired of", is a good wine. Chinese New Year festivals or weekdays home guests, go to the street to buy a bowl of salt water duck, seems to have become a secular rituals in Nanjing.
Nanjing duck
Nanjing duck is famous all over the world. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nanjing was rumored to be "an ancient academy, a glazed tower, a basalt satin, a salted duck". The ballad, visible Nanjing duck has long been renowned. The duck is cured with salt brine and air-dried, and is divided into two kinds: waxed duck and spring duck. Because its meat is tender and tight, like a board, so the name of the duck. 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 court of mutual visits to the duck as a gift to each other, so there are "official gift duck" The name of the official gift of duck.
What is the difference between duck and salted duck? Duck is after the old brine marinated after cooked, eat up the taste is more tight salty. Saltwater duck tastes tender. When you buy, look at the date, the fresher the better.
Nanjing Yu Hua Tea
Yu Hua Tea is a specialty of Nanjing, and is one of the top ten famous teas in China. It has a round green shape, straight, straight, sharp, with white hair, like pine needles, symbolizing the revolutionary martyrs chastity, the heroic image of the everlasting, so it is named Yu Hua Tea. Raindrop Tea is mainly grown in the suburbs of Nanjing, there are strict requirements on the selection of raw materials and process operation, before the rainy season, picking 2 to 3 centimeters long, a bud and a leaf of young leaves, after killing, kneading, shaping, baking and stir-frying four processes, the whole process is completed by hand. The color, aroma, taste and shape of rain tea are all excellent, after brewing, the tea color is green and clear, the aroma is elegant, the taste is mellow, the aftertaste is sweet, it has the effect of quenching thirst and clearing the mind, eliminating food and diuretics, treating wheezing, removing phlegm, getting rid of vexation and fatigue, etc. It has been selling well overseas since 1966, and in Japan and Southeast Asia, people will use the rain tea as a precious gift to their friends and relatives.
Nanjing Yu Hua Shi
Nanjing Yu Hua Shi is produced in Yu Hua Tai, Ju Hua Tai and other places. According to research, the finest rainbow stone is a kind of agate. According to legend, when Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, the monk Yun Guang preached in Shizigang, and was moved by the rain falling from the sky like flowers. Flower rain into the ground into a myriad of large as a chicken egg, small as a broad bean, colorful gravel, rain flower stone thus named, Shizigang also renamed Rain Flower Terrace.
Yuhuatai produced by the rain flower stone, is through the role of water relocation and rounded gravel, the main component is quartz sandstone, quartzite, siliceous rock, igneous rock and other hard rocks and quartz, chalcedony, opal class of minerals. The former has no bright colors and luster; the latter that is, quartz, chalcedony and other chemical composition is silicon dioxide. Common colors are white, creamy white, slightly yellow. There are also red, purple, green, rose, black. There is also a kind of agate composed of different color stripes concentric, ring-shaped, speckled.
Some of the rare rainbow stone magnificent, hazy transparency seems to have mountains, rivers, clouds, flowers, birds, fish and insects, ghosts and fairies, there are also within the pattern shaped like a piggy bank, the Monkey King, more worldly acclaim. People often "raise" the rainbow stone in the water pot, displayed on the desk, as an ornamental object. Nanjing's folk artists will also be carved into a variety of works of art, natural and artificial into one.
Nanjing brocade
Nanjing brocade is a traditional jacquard silk craft in Nanjing. The material is exquisite, fine weaving, elegant and colorful pattern, like the magnificent clouds in the sky, so it is called "cloud brocade". It and Suzhou's Song brocade, Sichuan Shu brocade, known as China's three famous brocade.
The history of Nanjing brocade production, dating back to the Three Kingdoms period, the Ming Dynasty when the brocade weaving process has matured and perfected, and the formation of Nanjing silk jacquard brocade local characteristics. Qing Dynasty in Nanjing with "Jiangning Weaving Department", brocade weaving flourished for a while, this period of brocade varieties, solemn patterns, colorful, representing the highest achievement of Nanjing brocade weaving process. Today's production of brocade in addition to the export of high-grade clothing fabrics and clothing for ethnic minorities, performance costumes, and the development of new color varieties, such as brocade table carpet, cushions, quilt tops, bags, horse clips, neckties, hanging screen and other daily crafts.
Nanjing brocade is a jacquard silk crafts, Nanjing craft "treasure art" of the first, and Sichuan Shu brocade, Suzhou Song brocade and known as the "three brocades", with a solid texture, pattern thick and beautiful, colorful as the characteristics of a large number of the use of gold thread, forming a unique style of gold and blue. It is characterized by its solid texture, thick and beautiful patterns, and rich colors, and the extensive use of gold threads, which creates a unique style of splendor. Yunjin used to be exclusively for the imperial court, now in addition to ethnic minorities to do clothing, but also exported to foreign countries to do high-grade clothing fabrics. Nanjing brocade, with up to eighteen colors, using embedded inlays to introduce the main flower, rich and elegant.
Cherries
Nanjing is the famous origin of cherries in China. Produced in the Xuanwu Lake area. Xuanwu Lake Cherry Island, named for the abundance of cherries. Varieties of Dongtang, pendant, green leaf, etc.. Dongtang cherries for the top grade, large grain flavor, juicy color, excellent quality. According to the season, now is the time when the cherry on the market.
According to legend, the Sixth Dynasty is abundant, red and gorgeous, tantalizing mouth-watering. Bai Juyi has a "cherry" poem praise, the poem said: containing peach most uttered Dongwu, fragrant color fresh smell different. Just lifting the head of ten million, two or three plants whisking face. The bird steals the fire from the place where it flies, and when people pick it, they step on the broken beads. It's a pity that the wind and the rain are blowing, but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there will be no more.
Cherries have "fresh fruit first branch" reputation, the ancients regarded as precious fruit. Southern Song Dynasty "Jing Ding Jiankang Zhi" contains: Nanjing produced fruits such as cherries, pomegranates. In recent times, in addition to cherries, pomegranates, and add lilies, peaches, watermelon, together known as the five famous fruits of Jinling.
Osmanthus duck
Nanjing people have a fondness for duck, duck cooking methods are countless, salted duck, Jinling duck, roast duck, roast duck, duck, Jinling duck, duck, crispy duck, eight treasures of pearl duck, salted duck gizzard and so on. Duck dishes in the most well-known salt water duck, eat a mouthful of tender and juicy meat, salty and moderate, fragrant and not stinky. Salt water duck and the most flavorful in August when the fragrance of osmanthus, duck meat with the aroma of osmanthus, so the name is "osmanthus duck".
Lingyuan watermelon
Now the mention of Lingyuan melon, younger Nanjing people know little, as a specialty of Nanjing, it has been in the late last century in Nanjing disappeared. Linyuan melon is one of China's most famous melons, known for its small size and sweet flesh.
Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup
Nanjing streets can be seen everywhere in the operation of the "duck blood vermicelli soup" store, which is popular in the Jinling small food is actually a by-product of the production of Nanjing plate duck, tender blood soup and fresh and add a little green garlic mustard to enhance the flavor of the dank. The price is cheap and can be found everywhere, just right for hunger.
Nanjing wood carving
Nanjing wood carving antique wood carving and boxwood wood carving. Antique wood carving color and simplicity and stability, to imitate the Tang horse, Lohan statue is also the shape of God, unique. Poplar wood carving to animals, people as the main theme.
Artemisia
There is an unusual small dish in Nanjing. That is fried dried artemisia. Artemisia, is the Yangtze River Peach Blossom Flood before the arrival of the river bank under the asparagus shoots, along the river elsewhere there will be, Nanjing people like to eat this kind of tender, crisp and refreshing aquatic wild vegetables. Nanjing people even to "artemisia only Nanjing" self-proclaimed.
Indeed, to eat artemisia, where people do not have the Nanjing people eat so fine and elaborate: choose a catty to pinch off eight two, a single remaining section of clean, green and crunchy artemisia rod tip; fried dried is also a vegetarian fried, in addition to a little oil, salt, no longer add other seasonings, to be the tip of the artemisia rod tip and dried mixed with the natural aroma of that, eat in the mouth of the green acerbity, eating the lip and teeth exceptionally The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing.
Salted duck gizzard
Nanjing duck gizzard is one of the famous local specialties of Nanjing, selling well in China and abroad, and the board duck, so far, has a history of more than two hundred years. Nanjing duck gizzard is flat and round in shape, and the meat is compact and easy to carry. The gizzard meat is tough and chewy, with a long flavor and no greasy feeling, which is a favorite delicacy for young and old alike.
After eating duck in Nanjing, guests can buy some gizzard and liver to take with them if they don't feel addicted. Those hanging into strings are sold raw, must be bought home on the steamer steamed food, there are also vacuum or buy now eat cooked food.
Mixed veggie buns
I don't know why such an ordinary vegetarian buns so much attention from Nanjing people, to every restaurant, restaurant dinner, almost all can see this food. Fuzimiao traditional snacks, since ancient times, can not be separated from the buns, bakery, dry silk three categories, especially the buns have the deepest origins, is the authentic old Nanjing goods. Ma Xiangxing Halal Restaurant, Green Willow House Vegetarian Restaurant, Qifangge, Guibin Building and several other famous restaurants of vegetarian buns are known far and wide.
Lilies
Lilies are a traditional specialty of Nanjing, produced in the eastern suburb of Nanjing, where plants flourish, such as Zhongshan. The outer skin is white, fleshy, sweet and delicate, and can also be stored for a long time.
Scholar's beans
Scholar's beans are actually five-spice beans. Legend has it that it got its name because candidates from the Jiangnan Tribute Court in the Ming and Qing dynasties liked to carry five-spice beans to catch the exams. This bean originated in the Ming Dynasty, and was made from broad beans, and it is said that the most famous five-spice beans were operated by two brothers, who started to cook the beans early in the morning every day, and then went out to sell them early in the morning.
To this day, there is a children's song circulating in Nanjing: five-spice beans, really fragrant, the old man ate the old mother fragrant, the big girl ate the second girl fragrant, the big brother ate the little brother fragrant, the head of the city ate the head of the city fragrant.
Jinling Folding Fan
Nanjing Jinling folding fan bamboo folding fan, silk Palace fan, bone fan, etc., fine production, lightweight and beautiful, both to drive the summer supplies, but also art appreciation. Especially "Jinling art fan", doubly popular.
Velvet
Velvet is a traditional craft in Nanjing. Silk and silk interwoven two categories, the pattern has a positive carving (Luo ground velvet flowers) and reverse carving (velvet ground Luo flowers) points. Varieties of materials, table blankets, cushions, art hanging screen, etc., of which the material can be made of high fashion and sofa, car cushion fabrics.
Jinling Gold Foil
Jinling Gold Foil is a gold sheet pounded into a thickness of not more than 0.1 micron sheet, used as architecture, artifacts, Buddhist statues and decorative decorations and the formulation of precious Chinese medicines.
Jinling gold foil has a long history, dating back to the Southern Dynasty, when the production of gold and silver foil and the setting up of the brocade department were recorded in the literature. During the Yuan Dynasty, the production of gold foil began in large quantities, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a step forward in the development of the Jinling Gold Foil. 1975 in Taipingmen outside Xu Da's fifth grandson Xu Fu's tomb unearthed in the gold silk dress, that is, more than 400 years ago Jinling Gold Foil physical evidence.
Longtan Town in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing and Jiangning County Garden Township and other areas is the Jinling gold foil, gold wire production distribution center, farmers have "playing foil", "making line" craft, and passed down from generation to generation. Jinling gold foil production process is unique and technically demanding, from ancient times to the present day, has been hand-pounding, is China's special traditional crafts.
There are more than ten procedures for processing gold foil, and the gold is processed through the fine processing of chemical strips, patting leaves, dropping the Kaiko, kangkang, making twists, beating foils, making tools, cutting foils, and so on, so that the gold strips are whacked into the gold foils which are as thin as the cicada's wings, and the Nanjing gold foils are famous in all directions because of their high quality.
Golden Evil
Among the many specialties of Nanjing, the one that best reflects the image of the ancient capital of Nanjing during the Six Dynasties is the magical and powerful stone carving, the Evil. Paixie is the ancient tomb of the beast, like the unicorn and no horns, both sides have wings, muscle and bone strength. The South Dynasty Paixie stone carving is the most famous, Nanjing Paixie a lot of the South Dynasty remains, as the image of Nanjing is tough and mighty to suppress the evil Paixie.
Nanjing people on the evil is also favored, especially the jade carving tailless evil, is seen as a symbol of wealth. In many Nanjing people's homes or cars, there will be an evil spirits to quell disasters and get rid of evil.
Poplar Radish
Poplar Radish is a small, delicate, red-skinned radish that is very refreshing when cold. It is marketed in the season of poplar flowers, so it gets such a wonderful name. In recent years, it has been on the high-level feast, become a colorful and delicious cold side dishes. Or carved into flowers, placed in the center of the feast table, can be seen and eaten.
Antique tooth carving
Nanjing antique tooth carving is very famous, product modeling figures, animals and various vessels. The fine tooth carving "Princess Wencheng Entering Tibet" produced in Nanjing was once pushed as one of the nine outstanding works of traditional craftsmanship newly created in the country. In addition, tooth carvings such as "Dragon Boat at Dragon Boat Festival", "Tang People Bow Striking" and "Nei Shang Yu Yi Dance" have been highly praised by both Chinese and foreigners.
Nanjing Xiangtu
Nanjing Xiangtu is one of the famous specialties of Nanjing, which was created during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Its shape is like an apple, small and delicate, the old Nanjing commonly called "small belly". It is tightly knotted meat, red and white, eat up tender and crisp, slightly sweet, both a famous dish at the banquet, but also in daily life is a good food. Its main material is fresh pork, usually three-thirds fat and seventy percent lean, accompanied by the right amount of salt, sugar, spices and so on.
In the old days, where the round table feasts, where the fragrant tripe is placed, that is, the chief guest sits, "alone in the honors" this sentence graphically out of the characteristics of the fragrant tripe. In 1910, the Nanyang persuasion, Nanjing incense belly had won awards, from famous overseas, exported all over the world.
Lai grapes
Lai grapes are very bitter, is the summer in the cool, cool and refreshing to go summer refreshing small dishes.
Chrysanthemum Brain
Chrysanthemum Brain is a specialty of Nanjing, which is not found anywhere else. In summer, chrysanthemum brain, wake up the brain and eyesight, is no oil fishy soup dishes. The old Nanjing people around the south of the city are especially precious to it.
Wong Eggs
Wong Eggs, also known as Hairy Eggs and Live Beads, is a snack. Traditionally, it refers to eggs that have failed to hatch and are boiled in water, usually peeled and dipped in fried pretzels for consumption. Some people consider it cruel to eat the embryos of underdeveloped chickens, but many Nanking people insist that it is simply a dietary habit.
There are some differences between wang eggs and live beads, as wang eggs are unsuccessfully hatched eggs, while live beads are eggs that have been incubating for about twenty days. There is also a big difference in the flavor of the two, live beads are more flavorful and have a higher nutritional value.