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Keywords: Suzhou cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Chinese mitten crab, Huqiu, Tiger Hill The name of the restaurant 李百蟹 “Li, the Hundred Crabs” refers to Li Ruiqing (李瑞清), esteemed educator, calligrapher, artist…and crab connoisseur. 店面李百蟹其实是清末教育家、书法家、美术家、吃蟹行家李瑞清的又一绰号。 As an educator he was the president of Liangjiang Normal College (precursor of Nanjing University), as a… Continue Reading Pick My Crab! Chinese Mitten Crabs Picked by Pure Labor and Served in Purest Form

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, 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: 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