Chinese Food 中国美食

Red Bean Soup with Rice Balls 赤豆元宵

Red Bean Soup with Rice Balls (赤豆元宵) is a Nanjing (南京) sweet of red beans and glutinous rice balls, yuanxiao (元宵).

Jiming Soup Dumplings 鸡鸣汤包

Jiming Soup Dumplings (鸡鸣汤包) are steamed soup dumplings from Nanjing (南京), named after the Jiming Restaurant (鸡鸣酒家), which stood facing the Gulou (鼓楼) roundabout.

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Osmanthus Sweet Taro Soup 桂花糖芋苗

Osmanthus Sweet Taro Soup (桂花糖芋苗) is a Nanjing (南京) dessert combining soft taro, fragrant osmanthus and smooth lotus-root starch. Its glossy, reddish-brown liquid carries a pronounced floral scent.

Plum Blossom Cake 梅花糕

Plum Blossom Cake (梅花糕) is a baked cake with a wheat-flour shell and a sweet red bean paste filling, sold hot from street stalls in Nanjing (南京).

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Luhe Cold Braised Pig's Head 六合猪头肉

Luhe Cold Braised Pig's Head (六合猪头肉) is pig's head simmered in a long-kept brine, cooled and sliced, from Luhe (六合), the part of Nanjing (南京) across the Yangtze from the city centre.

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Assorted Tofu Pudding 什锦豆腐涝

Assorted Tofu Pudding (什锦豆腐涝) is Nanjing's (南京) bowl of white bean curd dressed with a spread of savoury toppings.

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Meiling Congee 美龄粥

Meiling Congee (美龄粥) is a sweet rice congee from Nanjing (南京) in which the rice is cooked in soy milk instead of water, with Chinese yam (山药) and a few goji berries (枸杞).

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Boiled Fertilized Chicken Eggs 活珠子

Boiled Fertilized Chicken Eggs (活珠子) are a snack of free-range chicken eggs incubated by the traditional method for twelve to fourteen days, then boiled in plain water, peeled and dipped in roasted salt.

Osmanthus Salted Duck 桂花鸭

Osmanthus Salted Duck (桂花鸭) is the name Nanjing (南京) gives to its salted duck (盐水鸭) when it is made in the eighth lunar month, the osmanthus season, which is reckoned the best time of year for it.

Xiaolong Soup Dumplings 小笼馒头

Xiaolong Soup Dumplings (小笼馒头) in Wuxi (无锡) have thin skins, plentiful juices and a notably sweet-savoury filling.

Magnolia Fried Rice Cakes 玉兰饼

Magnolia Fried Rice Cakes (玉兰饼) are a local snack of Wuxi (无锡) in Jiangsu: a glutinous rice-flour cake, filled and fried in oil, named because it was made and sold while the magnolias were in flower.

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Liangxi Crispy Eel 梁溪脆鳝

Liangxi Crispy Eel (梁溪脆鳝), also called Wuxi crispy eel, is a sweet-salty dish from Wuxi (无锡). The cooked eel is crisp and arranged into a pagoda-shaped mound, giving the dish a distinctive appearance as well as texture.