As a native of Nanjing, born in the 1970s, the two things I love to eat most in my childhood memory are "duck blood soup" and "wood-fired wonton pickers". One of my favorites is "duck blood soup". In the past, the streets and alleys of Nanjing could sit down and buy a bowl of duck blood soup to relieve their hunger. Now in Nanjing, it is difficult to see the purchase of duck blood soup, most of them are duck blood vermicelli soup, the soup is mixed, anyway, from the visual and taste, I don't like it. The old Nanjing friends around them helplessly created a kind of "boss!" in the case of finding duck blood soup but hungry. Come to a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup without vermicelli" strange point method.
When I was a child, my grandmother's family lived in Xiyi Lane near the Confucius Temple, and in front of my house was the Red Star Cinema, where I watched a movie every week, and there was often a teacher near the movie theater who pushed a tricycle with a board to sell duck blood soup. Small pieces of duck blood floated in a stainless steel cauldron, and on the board were several white enamel teapots, which contained salt, monosodium glutamate, chili oil, garlic seedlings, squeezed vegetables and a large bowl of duck intestines, and did not have as many fancy accessories as the current duck blood vermicelli soup. The soup is clear, small pieces of duck blood are tempting, fresh garlic sprouts are turquoise, and the selected squeezed vegetables are salty and fresh, and the hot duck intestines are crisp and crisp. Fifty cents a bowl is very affordable, if you can accompany the duck oil baked cake of Qifangge, it is full of happiness. The last time I ate it was in the early 90s, I was in the first and second grades of junior high school, I still remember one day after visiting the Confucius Temple underground mall, carrying the popular "running pants" at that time, and suddenly saw the tricycle and the familiar board at the entrance of the cinema, but the boss had changed to the son of the teacher, the taste remained unchanged, and then I never saw it.
Until 1999, he studied abroad, returned to China in 2000 for summer vacation, and wanted to eat duck blood soup after returning to Nanjing. My girlfriend took me to a restaurant called "Aftertaste" near the pontoon bridge, and I ate duck blood vermicelli soup for the first time, but after trying it, I didn't like it too much, which also led to me never eating any duck blood vermicelli soup again.
Since 2020, under the recommendation of almighty headline netizens, I have tried the only three or two duck blood soup restaurants that still maintain the traditional method of Nanjing, and I personally feel that there are 30% or 40% similarities in childhood, and that's all. After years of change, taste change, after traveling all over the world, after tasting food, I still miss the bowl of duck blood soup in my heart!