MaXiangXing CaiGuan

This is the most famous halal restaurant in Nanjing. You can eat in and there is also a take-out window. There are many people queuing for take-out. I bought beef buns, vegetable buns and qingtuan. The beef buns are very delicious. The others are just so-so.

Ma Xiangxing is a local time-honored halal restaurant. It was visited by many celebrities during the Republic of China. Now it has moved to Yunnan North Road. Snacks and banquets are separated. Braised vegetables and dim sum are made well, and more locals patronize it.

For foodies, the meaning of travel is the food on the tip of the tongue. In addition to satisfying the appetite, there is also spiritual enjoyment in it. Where to eat and what to eat? It is imperative to make a food punch-in guide. Ma Xiangxing Restaurant is a famous Chinese time-honored brand in Nanjing, and it is also a halal restaurant that has spanned three centuries. This seemingly inconspicuous restaurant is crowded with people every day. Most of the people coming in and out are local citizens of Nanjing. I definitely don’t think that many foreigners who come to Nanjing for tourism will come to this place to eat, because few of them know that this time-honored brand hidden in the center of the old city of Nanjing. In history, Ma Xiangxing Restaurant was quite scenic. The famous dishes here are basically the ones that gourmets like. Among them, the famous dish "Beauty Liver" is the most praised, because Wang Jingwei "fell in love with Beauty Liver"... The current Ma Xiangxing Restaurant is no longer the same as it used to be... Now, it can only be regarded as a small restaurant in the market. (Very ordinary, but definitely not a place to cheat people)

Family dinner, group bought a 1399 coupon in advance, the private room is nice, spacious and bright, the waiter is also very good. The dishes are large, each ingredient is relatively fresh, the most famous egg siu mai, phoenix tail shrimp, squirrel mandarin fish, all perform very stably. The mutton pot, crab roe stewed fish belly and half soup beef are large and soft, which makes the elderly praise it! It happens that today is Laba Festival, so a big bowl of Laba porridge is also sent, which is very heartwarming. After eating, everyone said that they would come here for the next dinner. First, it is an old brand, second, the taste is very stable, and third, the quality of the ingredients this time is good. Although the waiter has to take care of three private rooms, his attitude is very good throughout the whole process, and the bone plate is replaced in time, which is very satisfactory! The old brand is worth recommending!

The beef pot stickers at the time-honored Muslim restaurant have thick and chewy skin. The steamed buns are juicy and tasty. Add a duck pancake and it's crispy and delicious. Finally, have a bowl of thick red bean yuanxiao. The portion is just right. Next, go to the Lion Bridge Food Street to taste other delicacies.

Ma Xiangxing is a century-old shop. I found it when I was walking on Hunan Road. They have a complete range of products, including takeout, stewed dishes, a la carte dishes, and various snacks. The first floor is the lobby, where people mainly eat various snacks, and upstairs is for ordering dishes. The tables and chairs on the first floor are all made of wood, which looks like an old shop. There are many tables, and there are also many people at mealtime, but the air conditioning is not very powerful. We ordered a smoked fish noodle and a beef offal noodle. The smoked fish noodle is 18 yuan, and a large piece of smoked fish is placed on the noodles. The smoked fish is delicious and very flavorful. The noodles are very chewy and chewy. The stewed sauce of the noodles is also good, fragrant and delicious. There is also a beef offal noodle. I forgot how much it cost, more than 20 yuan, I didn't eat it, but it looks delicious. I will try their pot stickers and other snacks if I have the chance in the future. I saw a lot of people ordering.

The shop is quite big. The three kinds of marinated food taste good, especially the marinated eggs and dried tofu. Halal marinated food is really good, especially tasty, moderately salty... The oxtail with small potatoes is cut quite big, tastes good, chewy, and cooked until it is mushy. Mr. Hu's tofu is fried first and then stewed. Although it looks light, it tastes really good and is soft in the mouth. It is good.

We returned to downtown Nanjing from Qixia Mountain at 4 PM and headed straight to Ma Xiangxing. It was impossible to enjoy a full meal at Ma Xiangxing's restaurant at this hour, let alone the signature dishes from the Four Beauties. Fortunately, we could go to the adjacent dim sum shop for some local specialties. The menu showed the various snacks weren't particularly expensive, so I ordered a few. The egg yolk siomai, which I'd been craving, were sold out at the counter, so the manager had to help me get them from the takeout window. Ma Xiangxing is a halal restaurant, so the pot stickers were beef. The beef was finely chopped, and the skin was very thin, making them easy to chew without much effort. The shepherd's purse and duck meat buns had a refreshing shepherd's purse inside, but it was mostly just shepherd's purse, with only a few small pieces of duck meat here and there. The must-try at his restaurant is the salted egg siomai. They're wrapped in lotus leaves and topped with a salted egg yolk. I had them a bit cold; if they were warm, fresh from the steamer, the salted egg yolk would have been delicious, and some oil might have dripped onto the glutinous rice. Glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaves is incredibly fragrant, isn't it? It must have been mixed with duck fat, giving it a sticky, rich, and fragrant texture. After dinner, I wandered into the nearby specialty store, and they actually sold Green Willow House products. Aren't these two supposed to be competitors?