Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck
Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck got another name as “osmanthus duck” and is a specialty in Nanjing. Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck is a geogerical product. Because Nanjing has another name “Jinling”, Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck got another name as Jinling Boiled Salted Duck which is well-knowned around the world and has a history of over 2000 years. Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck has a long history and accumulate rich working experience. The duck skin is white and the duck meat is tender, fatty but not oily, fresh and delicious. The duck tastes rather good, crispy and tender. After the mid-autumn festival, in the season of sweet-scented osmanthus bloom, the duck is most delicious and thus got the name as osmanthus duck. Nanjing is famous for dark cuisine and is a capital for various duck. Duck cusine is on behalf of Nanjing.
According to history record, the army Chen and the army northern Qi fighted outside the suburds of Nanjing. Because army Chen had duck as food, the duck made the army energetic and fight bravely, and finally army Chen defeated army northern Qi and won the battle. There are many ways for residents in Nanjing to eat duck. Fron thousand years ago, there has been the roast duck and Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck in the table. For the first emperor in Ming dynasty, he had one duck daily.
Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck is famous for osmanthus duck. According to history records, every August in Nanjing, The Boiled Salted Duck is the most delicious. Everyone assumes there is sweet-scented osmanthus smell in the duck. That is the reason for the name Sweet-scented osmanthus duck. Osmanthus duck has three advantages: duck skin white and duck meat tender; fat but not oily; fresh and delicious. The finished duck is full-figured, shining and fresh. The skin is white and oily, the duck meat looks light red, light but salty, delicious, fresh and tender, fit for eating lots.The duck has nice almond flavor and nut flavor including 92 flavors. Those flavors accumulates and turn into the good smell of Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck. Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck became the best-known dish in Nanjing.Nanjing Boiled Salted Duck offers the original fresh taste of the duck. The cooking was made according to the original taste of the duck. The duck is not oily and fatty, without any bad flavor, is fresh and tender. Duck has the function of anti-inflammation, anti-aging, and very fit for Patients with cardiovascular disease.