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  • 佩珊 peggy 吴
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    Food in Nanjing
    Nanjing has a relatively wide selection of local, regional Chineseand foreign foods, often at reasonable prices. Traditional Nanjingcuisine is known as Jin Su cuisine and is notable for the emphasisplaced on original flavor and carefully selected raw ingredients.Nanjing dishes are traditionally bright in color and use only amoderate amount of seasoning but a significant amount of oil.

    The characteristics of flavor lie in its mellow taste, neither toosalty nor too light, which suits the appetite of everybody. Thesumptuous course preserves its natural flavor with fresh and goodsmell, crisp, soft and tender tastes as its main features.

    Jin Su specialties that should be sampled include: Jinling roastduck, steamed duck cutlets, salted duck, Longchi carp and "Eightdelicacies soup". The "Eight delicacies" are: fish, water chestnut,lotus root, vine, parsley, arrowroot and lotus seeds. This is a populardish especially around "Moon Festival" time (roughly around the middleof August). There are numerous classical restaurants serving up thesedelicacies and the area around the Confucius Temple has some greatplaces to taste good Nanjing food.

    Western and Japanese food is also becoming increasingly popular andthere is a good selection of Western and Chinese food available aroundthe universities off Shanghai Lu. Of course, the big hotels such as TheHilton and The Jinling also have good restaurants. McDonalds and KFCare hugely popular here.

    There are, in particular, a number of places around the NanjingUniversity Foreign Students' Residence that cater to Western palates.Otherwise Xinjiekou and Confucius Temple are generally good districtsto browse for restaurants. For standard Chinese snacks - noodles,Sichuan hotpot, jiaozi and wonton soup - promising areas includeNinghai Lu, just north from the main entrance of the Normal University,the area just west of Fuzi Miao, and the area immediately southeast ofXinjiekou.

    Nanjing is an ideal place to sample Jiangsu cuisine, most notablyyanshui ya (salted duck), so renowned that it has now become acountry-wide favourite. Other Jiangsu dishes worth trying includemajiang yaopian (pork intestines), jiwei xia (a lake crustacean vaguelyresembling a lobster, but much better tasting, locals affirm) andpaxiang jiao (a type of vegetable that resembles banana leaves). Thebest areas of town to sample Jiangsu food are in the north of town,north of Gulou along Zhongyang Lu and northwest along Zhongshan Bei Lu.

    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. Thecharacteristics of the Nanjing dried salted duck, apart from itsplumpness in appearance, lies in its rich delicacy with white tenderskin, tasting crisp, fragrant, pressed soft and aftertaste everlasting.

    Salt Solution Duck

    It tastes oily but not greasy. The duck is first pressed and salted,then steeped in brine and baked - the skin should be creamy-colouredand the flesh red and tender. It is characterized as good smell, crispand tender.

    Jinling Snacks

    Nanjing Confucian temple is the place of origin of Jinling snacks,which has a long history and a great variety of snacks. With thedevelopment of the municipal construction, the network of snacks hasincreasingly been developed. Apart from the Confucian Temple area,places of light refreshments and snacks have gradually come into beingin a rather compact way, in Xinjiekou, Changle Road, Shanxi Road,Zhongyangmen, etc. there are such well-known snack stores as Liu FengJu (for jellied bean curd, green onion pancake), Qin yuan Chun (WanTon), dumpling soup, (flour-light refreshments), Lian Hu Sweet SnackStore (cake in Russian style) etc.
    • 13 Mar 2008, 04:18 am