• Steamed Dumplings (Zhengjiao 蒸饺)
• 3.Soup Dumplings (Tangbao,汤包)
• Dumplings with chicken broth inside them are a favourite of both locals and visitors.
• Bagged Salty Ducks can be found in all the tourist markets. Fresh ducks can be bought at butchers shops and grocery stores.
• Nanjing Salty Duck (Nanjing Yanshui Ya, 南京盐水鸭)
• Nanjing Salty Duck has been produced in Nanjing for over 1000 years and is widely thought of as the number one Nanjing specialty. The skin is lightly coloured and the meat is tender.
• Soup dumplings can be found in many restaurants. One of the more popular restaurants can be found on Lion's Bridge . They do not sell any dishes besides soup dumplings and duck blood
• 2.Baked Duck (Shao Ya, 烧鸭)
• This is less famous than the Salty Duck but more likely to be popular with foreigners. It is soaked in dark sweet and salty sauce to add flavour. Fresh Shao Ya can be bought in butcher shops and some grocery stores.
• Fried Beef Dumplings (Niurou Goutie,牛 肉锅贴)
• 2.Steamed Dumplings (Zhengjiao,蒸饺) • Steamed dumplings are found all over
China but Nanjing's steamed dumplings are made to be less oily. Steamed dumplings are found all over China but Nanjing's steamed dumplings are made to be less oily. Try the pork (猪肉) and fragrant mushroom (香菇) steamed dumplings. • Steamed dumplings can be found in the same places that the fried dumplings are found.
• 盐水鸭 boiled salted duck
Nanjing Specialty Food
• Nanjing has many famous specialty foods. Some of these are unique to Nanjing and others are found all over China but get a special twist in Nanjing.
南京特色美食
Nanjing Specialty Food
• 南京特色美食 Nanjing characteristic foods
• 秦淮八绝 the Eight Unique of Qinhuai
• 金陵烤鸭 the Jinling roast duck
• 鸭血粉丝汤 duck blood and silknoodles பைடு நூலகம்oup
• The quality and quantity of duck eaten in Nanjing has earned it one of it's many nicknames - "Yadu" (鸭都) or "Duck Capital".
Duck （Ya 鸭）
• 1.Nanjing Salty Duck (Nanjing Yanshui Ya,南京盐水鸭)
• 3.Duck Blood and Sweet Potato Starch Noodle Soup (Yaxue Fensi Tang, 鸭血粉丝汤)
• This soup contains congealed blocks of ducks blood and thin noodles made from sweet potato starch. It is a dish that is loved by some and avoided by others. Duck Blood Soup can be found at many specialty restaurants such as
Yingshi on Lion's Bridge .
Dumplings （Jiaozi饺子）
• 1.Fried Beef Dumplings (Niurou Goutie, 牛肉锅贴)
• They are what they sound like – Oily but delicious fried beef dumplings. Perhaps this dish is not native to Nanjing but some will swear that the fried beef dumplings in Nanjing are the best. These can be found at small holein-the-wall vendors across the city. Maxiangxing , near Hunan Road serves Fried Beef Dumplings in a seemingly cleaner environment.