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Keywords: Nanjing Eye, Wenzhou cuisine The original design of the Nanjing Eye Pedestrian Bridge by the firm of Zaha Hadid, also responsible for the nearby Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, initially harbored much bigger ambitions, but constraints forced the plan to downscale, but even then the result was sufficient to… Continue Reading In-Season Wenzhou Crabs Have Lots More Than Just Meat, and Wenzhou Fishballs Don't Look Like Balls

Keywords: Suzhou cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, fried fish, grass carp Nowadays grass carp is often used for Suzhou fried fish, although some gastronomes insist black carp is better because the flesh is firmer, resulting in fried pieces that won’t crumble as easily. Some are also willing to pay a premium for… Continue Reading More on Suzhou's Famous FMHJ Wet Market: “Explosive” Fried Fish Worthy of Three-Hour Lines

Keywords: Suzhou pingtan, intangible cultural heritage, lotus leaves, steamed pork w/ rice flour, triple shrimp Here’s another Suzhou pingtan and Suzhou cuisine connection: According to authoritative Suzhou gastronomy expert Hua Yonggen, the chef Liu Xuejia was a huge fan of pingtan, and liked to sing a few lines every so… Continue Reading Suzhou's Intangible Cultural Heritage Pingtan and Summer's Steamed Pork Wrapped in Lotus Leaves

Keywords: Nanjing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, beef potsticker, Yihe Road, Chinese halal cuisine Being the “first” doesn’t necessarily mean being ranked first, not to mention the subjectivity in everyone’s personal ranking on who’s “first,” but I think only the most audacious soul would dare question Ma Xiangxing’s seminal role in beef… Continue Reading Nanjing's Oldest Halal Restaurant Est. 1845 and Famed for Duck Pancreas, Beef Potsticker and More

Keywords: Nanjing city wall, Gate of China, Zhonghuamen, pidu noodles, pork rind noodles, Nanjing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine About the jubaopen “treasure-gathering basin,” some online sources say that when the Nanjing city wall was being built, for some reason the foundation would always budge, then some mystic advised burying a powerful… Continue Reading Nanjing Pork Rind Noodles and Salted Duck + 600 Years-old Ancient City Gate Among World's Biggest

Keywords: Nanjing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, duck blood and vermicelli soup, Ming Xiaoling, Mausoleum of Hongwu Emperor Although this “most beautiful 600m in Nanjing” is most renowned during autumn because of the fall foliage, surely the shendao “spirit road” is beautiful in other ways during other seasons. 尽管这”南京最美600米”在秋天尤美，但毫无疑问这段神道在其他季节有其他的美法。 The ornate statues… Continue Reading Stroll Down Nanjing's “Prettiest 600 Meters” and Slurp on Bowl of Duck Blood and Vermicelli Soup

Keywords: Nanjing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, zhezhe claypot, duck tongue, soup bun, Qixia Mountain Due to the nature of the Chinese language and its dialects, many foods have developed various similar-sounding but different-looking written forms. 由于中文及其方言的特性，很多单词包括食物的单词常常发展出不同写法。 One instance from this video is cuttlefish 目鱼 (mu yu), which is generally… Continue Reading “Zhezhe-Sounding” and Sizzling Claypot of Duck Tongue – Cantonese Dish Localized for “Duck Capital”

Keywords: Wuxi cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, tuanzi, Chinese pastry I also read elsewhere that ancient yulanbing “magnolia cakes” did contain magnolias, and were indeed available only in spring when the eponymous flower bloomed. 后来在其他文章当中，也有看到介绍玉兰饼从前的确包含玉兰，并且只有花期才会供应。 Magnolia petals would be picked, washed, dried and finely chopped, then mixed w/ sticky rice flour left… Continue Reading I Came, I Saw Magnolias, I Conquered Some Magnolia Cakes

Keywords: Suzhou cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, mutton, Lamb, Cangshu, Tianping Mountain The “lake sheep” huyang was previously written as 胡羊 not 湖羊, with the 胡 in the former probably denoting its “foreign” or “barbarian” origin. This 胡 nomenclature dates back to ancient times. For example, the wide range of bing (饼)… Continue Reading Southern Chinese Cuisine Has No Tasty Mutton? Try Suzhou's Cangshu Mutton Cooked in Wooden Tub