Nanjing locals cannot do without breakfast. What wakes up Nanjing foodies isn’t an alarm clock but an aroma that assails the nostrils. Wake up a little late and you’ll have to stand for hours in line at a breakfast shop! There are 10 breakfast locations you have to know about in Nanjing!
Xiaoyanjing Steamed Rice
小眼镜蒸饭
Legendary Feature: Go here early in the morning to check it out. The booth with the longest line is the one you’re looking for.Plus everyone buys in bulk, and eat to their heart’s content! The owner’scooking skills are finely honed, and people even say that there are plenty oft hings to choose from. Beetroot + crispy dough sticks + egg + dried meat floss+ sausage! You’ll think it’s worth every penny once you take a bite!
Price : RMB 6/Person
Address: Roundabout, Hanzhong Road
Menglaoda Egg Burgers
孟老大鸡蛋汉堡
Legendary Feature: Menglaoda’s egg burgers are a time-honored brand, yet business is just as good as in the past. It might be because Menglaoda has always been so honest. Each burger has two eggs. The individually cut meat is excellent. It comes out naturally with a fresh aroma after beingg rilled on an iron pan!
Price : RMB 5/Person
Address: Ruiyang Street Corner, Ruijin Road, Qinhuai District
Jinling Darou Bao
金陵大肉包
Legendary Feature: Author Zhang Jiawei once wrote this about Daroubao in his book “Haobaozi Bu Dagou”: “Nanjing’s Jinling Daroubao are the best baoziI have ever eaten. They contain the best things that a baozi should have: the skin is thin, filling is dense, they are big and white.”
Price : RMB 5/Person
Address: Basement floor of Citibank, Number 2-1Hanzhong Road, Xinjiekou
Lan Laoda Candied Lotus Porridge
蓝老大糖藕粥
Legendary Feature: A hundred year old time-honored brand, it only makes candied lotus porridge, sweet taro, rice balls with redbean, and five spices eggs. The candied lotus porridge that is stewed in the legendary red copper pot, which is prepared for four hours, is finished in ten minutes.
Price : RMB 10/Person
Address: Number 66 Shuangtang Road, Qinhuai District(Across from the Shuangtang Elementary School)
Wangjia Wontons
汪家馄饨
Legendary Feature: Eating wontons is one of the things that Nanjing locals love. Wangjia Wontons are the most famous wontons among Nanjing’s chili oil wontons. Their wontons are stuffed with meat filling. They are tender and not oily in your mouth when you eat them. The wonton skins are thin, but don’t tear.
Price : RMB 9/Person
Address 1: Number 9 Jinlian, Laifeng Neighborhood, Jiqing Road
Address 2: Next to Lianhua Supermarket, Yuhua Xincun Ercun, Yuhuatai District (near the district post office)
Xiangsu Egg Pie Cake
香酥鸡蛋灌饼
Legendary Feature: This store has been open forseventy years. It is always full of people. If you want to eat the egg pie cake at this store make sure to be prepared to stand in line! The eggs are truly stuffed into the pancake, with an added piece of tender loin or ham, and cover edin sauce. The egg pie cake turns even crispier due to it being baked after it is fried, and then in the end the oil is drained. It is extremely satisfying to eat!
Price : RMB 4.5/Person
Address: Across from the Daxiang Luxiang Noodle House on Mingwalang
A’po Five Spice Eggs
阿婆五香蛋
Legendary Feature: Nanjing’s famous A’po Five Spice Eggs, RMB 1.7 each, have been sold for 35 years. A’po Five Spice Eggs are the only five spice eggs that are husked and then boiled and so look dark. This is a manifestation of the brine flavor fully entering into the eggs.
Price : RMB 2/Person
Address: Jiaofuying Harbor, Confucius Temple, Qinhuai District
Fangpo Rice Cake Store
芳婆糕团店
Legendary Feature: Whether a Nanjing local or an outsider on their first visit to Nanjing, everyone chooses to try out the rice glue balls with wine, sweet taro, fried glutinous rice balls with sesame, meat zongzi, or marinated egg at Fangpo.
Price : RMB 10/Person
Address: Number 50 Wangfu Dajie, Baixia District
Xu Jianping Soup Dumplings
徐建萍汤包
Legendary Feature: Nanjing locals will tell you that only this restaurant has the Jiming soup dumplings of legend – Xu Jianping Soup Dumplings. Different from other soup dumplings this store makes the dumplings on order, and so customers can rest assured.
Price : RMB 15/Person
Address: Inside the alley on the southern corner ofthe Agricultural Bank of China,Number 37 Rehe South Road
Li Jiqing Halal Restaurant
李记清真馆
Legendary Feature: The Guotie Stuffed with Beef at LiJiqing Halal Restaurant are absolutely one of the best tasting in Nanjing. Once a batch is finished another order arrives. The guotie stuffed with beef at this restaurant has a golden color, crispy skin, plenty of beef filling, and has fresh, sweet juice inside. Complemented with a bowl of beef soup or beef wontons, and you’ll immediately liven up your day!
Price: RMB 14/Person
Address: Number 1 Dading Alley, Pingshi Street (near Jianye Road)
