Description
The ultimate street food of Nanjing, a city obsessed with duck. A cloudy white broth boiled from duck bones, filled with sweet potato vermicelli, bouncy Duck Blood Jelly (Ya Xue), and duck intestines/liver/gizzard. Tasting the 'entire duck' in one bowl.
Restaurants serving Ya Xue Fen Si Tang (Duck Blood and Vermicelli Soup)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Duck bones(for broth)
- Ya Xue(Duck blood jelly)
- Duck intestines/gizzard/liver
- Sweet potato glass noodles
- Fried tofu puffs
- Coriander
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Boil duck frames (bones), ginger, and scallions on high heat for hours to extract a cloudy, rich white 'Duck bone broth' (similar to Tonkotsu).
- Cube the star ingredient: 'Ya Xue' (tofu-like jelly made of coagulated duck blood).
- Meticulously clean and parboil duck intestines (crunchy), gizzards (chewy), and liver (creamy) separately.
- Boil thin sweet potato glass noodles (Fen Si) and place in a bowl.
- Top the noodles with the duck blood and the three duck offals, then flood the bowl with the boiling duck broth.
- Garnish with fried tofu puffs (Dou Fu Guo), cilantro, and scallions. Finish with a splash of chili oil and black vinegar to tighten the flavor.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Rich white duck broth、Slippery texture of duck blood
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Irreplaceable - requires the whole duck ensemble)
Pairing
Xiao Long Bao / Sheng Jian Bao(Pan-fried buns)
Trivia
[Trivia] Nanjingers consume so much duck it's said they 'can't live without it'. Though visually intimidating to foreigners, the blood jelly has absolutely zero odor; it's an elegant, collagen-rich soup.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Use a spoon to simultaneously enjoy the 'slippery' duck blood and 'crunchy' intestines, then slurp the soup-soaked, chewy vermicelli. Adding black vinegar halfway through is the classic way to refresh the palate.
Allergen
Soybeans, Wheat