Food
Traditional Nanjing cuisine is known as Jin Su cuisine and is notable for the emphasis placed on original flavor and carefully selected raw ingredients. Nanjing dishes are traditionally bright in color and use only a moderate amount of seasoning but a significant amount of oil.
Jin Su specialties that should be sampled include: Jinling roast duck, steamed duck cutlets, salted duck, Longchi carp and "Eight delicacies soup". The "Eight delicacies" are: fish, water chestnut, lotus root, vine, parsley, arrowroot and lotus seeds. This is a popular dish especially around "Moon Festival" time (roughly around the middle of August). There are numerous classical restaurants serving up these delicacies and the area around the Confucius Temple has some great places to taste good Nanjing food.
Restaurants
1) Yiye Yuan - New Chinese Food
Yiye Yuan provides an example of novel and modern Chinese food. Their modern cuisine stands out from that of other Chinese restaurants. At Yiye Yuan cooking techniques are characterized by less oil and a variety of creative dishes.
Address:No. 54 Taiping Bei Lu - Inside 1912
2) Spring Garden
There is one word called eating at Dingyuan, which means the Spring Garden. Every dishes are dedicacy and delicious, however the price is higher than normal restaurant.
Address:No. 90 Chahaer Lu, Nanjing (Nanjing Parkview Dingshan Hotel)
3) A One Kitchen
Mainly engaged in Huai cuisine and combined with sea food. Regardless of appearance or taste is quite good, and the decoration in first-level but the only fly in the ointment is expensive.
Address:7F, Deji Plaza, No.18 Zhongshan Lu, Nanjing
4) Kuo Bee Pen Da
The room is little but decoration is fashionable. It's suitable for potluck and dating.
Address:5F, Deji Plaza, No.18 Zhongshan Lu, Nanjing