Food and Restaurants

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 with 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 dumpling 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; Liufengju's tofu and green onion pancake; Qifangge's crispy sesame seed cake, steamed vegetable buns, sesame oil vermicelli and shredded chicken noodles; rice dumpling and five colored cakes from the Lianhu Cake and Dumpling Restaurant; Zhanyuan Noodle Restaurant's smoked fish noodles and steamed dumplings; Kuiguangge's five-spice broad beans and five-spice eggs.