Nanjing Cuisine - News Center

Nanjing cuisine is a branch of the Huai-Yang cooking school, which is historically called Jing-Su cuisine. Of the multitudinous cuisine schools in China, Jing-Su cuisine is known for careful selection of materials, prominence of the main ingredient, attractiveness of colors, and different dishes in different seasons.
The cooks are especially good at the cooking methods of simmering, stewing and fork roasting. Many dishes are hard in appearance but soft in essence. The broth is thick with pure fragrance; the meat looks fat but not greasy, soft and boneless.
Jin Su specialties that should be sampled include: Jinling roast duck, steamed duck cutlets, salted duck, Longchi carp and "Eight delicacies soup". The "Eight delicacies" are: fish, water chestnut, lotus root, vine, parsley, arrowroot and lotus seeds. This is a popular dish especially around "Moon Festival" time (roughly around the middle of August). There are numerous classical restaurants serving up these delicacies and the area around the Confucius Temple has some great places to taste good Nanjing food.

Nanjing cuisine has fine cutting techniques and is skillful in timing. Hence, it has thick flavor with tastiness of the four directions and caters to tastes of people from eight directions. It wins over many specifically by its freshness, fragrance, crispness and tenderness.
The famous delicacy streets are Dashiba Food Street located near the Confucius Temple and Shiziqiao in Hunan Street. The restaurants situated in Xinjiekou and around Nanjing University are recommended.
Western and Japanese food is also becoming increasingly popular and there is a good selection of Western and Chinese food available around the universities off Shanghai Lu. Browse our Restaurant Index for more detailed information. Of course, the big hotels such as The Hilton and The Jinling also have good restaurants. McDonalds and KFC are hugely popular here.

Dried Salted Duck
Nanjing is famous for its dried salted duck both at home and abroad, which has its market in Hong Kong and southeastern region. The characteristics of the Nanjing dried salted duct, apart from its plumpness in appearance, lies in its rich delicacy with white tender skin, tasting crisp, fragrant, pressed soft and aftertaste everlasting.
Salt Solution Duck
It tastes oily but not greasy. Your appetite will increase after tasting it. It is characterized as good smell, crisp and tender.
Jinling Snacks in Nanjing
Nanjing Confucian temple is the place of origin of Jinling snacks, which has a long history and a great variety of snacks. With the development of the municipal construction, the network of snacks has increasingly been developed. Apart from the Confucian Temple area, places of light refreshments and snacks have gradually come into being in a rather compact way, in Xinjiekou, Changle Road, Shanxi Road, Zhongyangmen, etc. there are such well-known snack stores as Liu Feng Ju (for jellied bean curd, green onion pancake), Qin yuan Chun (Wan Ton), dumpling soup, (flour-light refreshments), Lian Hu Sweet Snack Store (cake in Russian style) etc.

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