The so-called jelly in the north is a gelatinous food made from foods with high starch content such as rice, beans, and potatoes. The jelly needs to be cut into strips or filaments and then stirred with sauce to eat, which is refreshing and cold, and is a powerful tool for relieving the heat in summer. However, Liangfen is not the most popular food in Nanjing, and it is neglected compared to grilled fish, soup dumplings, potstickers, etc.
Among the many jelly stalls in Nanjing, Huang Qinji jelly is the most well-known. Huang Qinji improved the jelly, and the secret sauce became more spicy, with a sweet flavor in it, so that it could better suit the local taste of Nanjing. The cold noodles in the store are made from peas, broad beans and mung beans, and the cold powder is bright and strong, and the slenderness is continuous, which also shows the exquisite craftsmanship of the store's milling technology. The jelly is topped with diced mixed vegetables, which is paired with a smooth jelly for a rich taste.
There are also many people who think that the taste of the cold noodles is slightly inferior, and they prefer the chicken juice in the store to be marinated and dried. Chicken sauce is a Nanjing-style snack, the dried chicken and bean sprouts are heated in clear chicken soup, the dry and soft soup, the soup is abundant. Huang Qinji's method of returning the chicken juice to the marinated dry is also different from the traditional method, adding dried scallops, dried fish, bamboo shoots and other ingredients to the chicken soup to add umami. Unfortunately, the dry brine is stewed in the pot, and it gradually soaks, and the dry brine is too soft and rotten, and the taste is lost.
The manager, Huang Qin, made a fortune from selling on board cars, and later set up a fixed stall in the Confucius Temple, which became a must-eat snack in the Confucius Temple. In 2013, Huang Qinji moved from Confucius Temple to Laomendong, and his son Huang Lin also inherited his father's business and became the new manager. Although Huang Qinji still has some old Nanjing people who come to taste a bowl of cold noodles, most of them are mainly tourists. Although the shop is small, the façade is antique, the interior decoration is simple, the area is not large, and the location is not much, so customers can only stand and eat or buy and go, which is quite inconvenient.
