Nanjing Cuisine
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City Name:
Nanning (Chinese: 南京; Pinyin: Nánjīng)
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Population :
Total: 7,588,900
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Location :
Situated at 32°03′N 118°46′E
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Overview:
Located in the lower Yangtze River Delta economic zone, Nanjing has always been one of China's most important cities.
Overview
People in Nanjing boast of the rich flavors in their cuisine as preserves the natural flavors of the ingredients without overpowering or underwhelming. A specialty around here is Salted Duck, the meat is succulently tender ith a crispy skin. The area around the Confucius Temple at Shiba Jie is newly restored and where the locals go for a fun evening out. There are many good restaurants and snack stalls in there. Try a kind of pudding made from Tofu, green onion pancakes and dumping soup. Another food street to check out is at Hunan Lu Shiziqiao Meishi Jie.
If you're really hungry, order the Eight Qinhuai Specialties, the recipes for these dishes have been passed from generation to generation. The specialties are: Yongheyuan's Huangqiao Sesame Seed Cake and Kaiyang Dried Vermicelli; Jiangyouji's Beef Soup and Beef-stuffed Potstickers; Loufengju's Tofu and Green Onion Pancake; Qifangge's Crispy Seasame Seed Cake, steamed vegetable buns, sesame oil vermicelli and shredded chicken noodles, and so on.
Must try
Nanjing salted duck is a dish with over 400 years of history, and is
one of China's most famous methods of preparing duck. Delicious and
tender salted duck is a Nanjing specialty, rich in flavor but not too
greasy. Salted duck hangs from many city shop windows and the best
time to purchase and eat the duck is said to be August when the duck
is seasoned with Osmanthus flowers and has a delicate flavor
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Chiang has in mind the traditional package dumpling shop set point soup dumplings and beef, has over a century's history, characterized by delicious delicious soup and beef-stuffed potstickers, fried dumpling in beautiful shapes, yellow instead of paste, with sauce delicious and fresh.
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Nanjing Steamed Vegetable Bun is made with cabbage very similar with spring roll, added with carrots, mushrooms, mushroom, bamboo shoots and shrimp inside, coriander 25 grams each, a little ginger. The cabbage leaf tile on the board, into the cook stuffing and raw parsley, individually wrapped, sticky uniform dry starch, dipped in eggs, roll over crumbs. Stir lit up the oil, then heat down into the vegetable bun and deep fry into golden brown,
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Beginning in late April, the Fuzi Miao Culture Festival makes Nanjing's historic district even more lively with many traditional performances.
The Linggu Temple, the Linggu pagoda and the Beamless Hall are situated on the eastern side of the Purple Mountain.
The Ming Xiaoling is the tomb of the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu
Yuanzhang. The tomb complex, one of the largest in China, stretches over several dozen acres. It is made up of memorial temples, pavilions, grand gateways, and long avenues lined with stone statues, all laid out in the shape of the dipper constellation.
