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What are the special snacks in Nanjing?

Nanjing specialty snacks include Jinling salted duck, red bean dumplings, Nanjing plum blossom cake, fried dumplings, red and blue jade ribbon cake, honey lotus root, star roast duck, Qiao Lin dry tea, braised pork, Nanjing fried dumpling, Nanjing skin belly noodles, crab shell yellow sesame seed cake, Qiao Lin soup dumplings, dragon robe and crab yellow steamed buns, steamed cakes,

Jinling salted duck

Jinling salted duck is a very famous product, which uses the valley-fed duck produced in Nanjing. This kind of duck has white fat and tender meat. After cooking, this duck is fresh, delicious and unique in flavor. Therefore, it was well-known at home and abroad in the Ming Dynasty, just like the "Nanjing salted duck" that appeared in the late Ming Dynasty.

Chidou yuanxiao

Chidou Yuanxiao is one of Nanjing people's favorite desserts. Nanjing people especially like the sweet and long taste of lobster sauce. Cook Yuanxiao with your hands, and finally add brown sugar. It tastes sweet but not evil. Probably the favorite dessert of Nanjing people.

Nanjing plum blossom cake

Plum blossom cake is a kind of special cake which originated in Suzhou. It has a long history. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he saw plum cake with attractive shape and attractive color and pretended to taste it. Its population is sweet but not greasy, soft and crisp, better than the palace, and it is highly praised, so it has been passed down to this day. The products are Nanjing plum blossom cake, Yuanxiao, fruit and pine nuts. More than a dozen methods such as bean paste, jam and nuts were added, which pushed plum blossom cake to a new level and became another new selling point in snacks at present.