Zhongshan Road is a street dedicated to eating goods. For tourists, it is one of the top ten food streets in China, but for Nanning people, it is a small street where people usually eat supper, string together and wander around, and it is a part of life in Nanning.
Zhongshan Road in Nanning is a famous snack street in China. It has a long history and a lot of delicious food. It is the favorite place for Nanning people to go for midnight snack, and it is also a must-see place for friends who travel to Nanning. From traditional snacks in Nanning, such as taro cake, rice rolls, rice dumplings, fried dough sticks, barbecue, snail, seafood, sour wild fruit, herbal tea, freshly squeezed juice, peanut paste, sesame paste, glutinous rice balls, wonton, beef balls, noodles with eight treasures, old friends powder and stir-fry, to duck neck in Wuhan, glutinous rice cakes in Hong Kong, fried chestnuts in Beijing. Due to the variety of snacks and unique food culture, Nanning Zhongshan Road was rated as "Top Ten Food Streets in China" and also known as "Hong Kong Snack Streets" in the south. In 21, China CCTV came here to shoot a documentary, which added a lot of popularity to this ancient and young street.
For many Nanning people, Zhongshan Road is where they grew up. This small street, which is about 1 meters long, will be crowded with hundreds of stalls after 6 o'clock every night. The journey that can be completed in less than ten minutes during the day is almost impossible at night. Foodies from all directions gather here. Before each booth, there will be more than a dozen customers waiting to enjoy the taste. The stall owners warmly entertain them and add a few more spoonfuls to the bowl while appeasing the guests. This is not only the way to survive in the food street, but also the tacit understanding formed between customers and stall owners over the years.
It is said that the food street is a hodgepodge with everything. However, the reason why Zhongshan Road can stand among so many food streets in Nanning and become a signboard recommended by locals to foreigners is that it combines geographical advantages, not only bringing together food from all over China, but also including food from all over Southeast Asia, which is extremely inclusive. Let me recommend some special snacks in Nanning for you!
Some friends will say that after seeing water chestnut cake's cooking method, they will never dare to eat water chestnut cake again. Water chestnut cake is a little transparent, chewy and crunchy. There will be many different fillings to choose from, sesame flavor, pineapple flavor and so on. I will help you cut the pieces, and the things covered with powder feel best in summer.
The material of Bozi cake is different from that of water chestnut cake, but the taste is similar. The appearance of the alms cake is very pleasing. It is very cute to put it in a bowl, and it will be filled with red beans or shredded coconut and so on to form a different taste. I remember that there were no alms cakes on Zhongshan Road a long time ago, but only some small shops opposite the school sold them. Later, those small shops gradually stopped selling them. At one time, I thought that this kind of things would not be available. Later, I found out that it actually appeared on Zhongshan Road, which was really a surprise.
There are many roast pig's trotters on Zhongshan Road. I have only eaten one of them, and the roast tastes great. The pig's trotters are half-cooked on barbecue carbon, and customers need to reheat them on site, add some cumin powder and Chili powder, and soon the roast pig's trotters that want to be sprayed will be released. This Chinese food is recommended for everyone to eat on the spot, so it will be fragrant, tender and not greasy.
In Nanning, besides Laoyou powder, you have to mention powder dumplings. Fenjiao is different from ordinary jiaozi. Its skin is made of rice, and it tastes soft. This is a special snack of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, which may not be available in other places, so don't miss this delicious food when you come to Nanning.
Suanjie is a Cantonese word, also known as "sour material" and "sour product". It is a kind of specialty snack popular in all parts of Guangxi, which is sour and sweet, sour and salty, with a wide variety, collected from fruits and vegetables and slightly sour. The word "raw" is the most important choice of materials. Fruits and vegetables that are ripe at the beginning or already ripe should not be used as sour materials, because they are already soft and not crisp enough, but the taste highlights the word "sour", which is moderately sour, salty, sweet and sour. Common ones are radish acid, broccoli acid, concanavalic acid, cowpea acid, water chestnut acid, carambolic acid, peach acid, cucumber acid, cantaloupe acid, milic acid, papaya acid, pear acid, mango acid and so on.
In addition, the most eye-catching thing about Zhongshan Road Night Market in Nanning is all kinds of fried insects, such as scorpions and centipedes, silkworm chrysalis, cicadas, bamboo worms, wood worms, grasshoppers, bee pupae, hyenas and dragonflies. According to the stall owner, all these insects are cultured artificially, rich in protein, with delicate and sweet taste and rich nutrition. I wonder if all the friends have the courage to taste them?
A road that gives people the impression that "the night is like a paradise and the day is like a hut", a road that takes no more than 1 minutes to walk from head to tail with your feet, but may make you recite it for years with your mouth; A road named after a famous politician in China, which is located in the center of the provincial capital city but not the main traffic artery, is Zhongshan Road in Nanning.
this street full of "grass-roots flavor" food will be like an old yellowed photo, which will never be left in some people's memory and is worth remembering.
if you want to know about a city, you must visit the night market there after nightfall. Nanning in the night is quiet in the bustling city. Colorful lanterns are gradually lit up, reflecting each other with the lights, which is the most authentic taste of Nanning.
If you travel to Nanning, I recommend that you go to Zhongshan Road anyway to experience the colorful night market life of Nanning people. I believe you will also fall in love with Nanning, a city full of delicious food.