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Cuisine characteristics of Wuxi cuisine

Fine and harmonious catering skills reflect the inherent personality of Wuxi catering culture. If you do further research, you will be deeply impressed by the fine harmony between Wuxi food customs and Wuxi dishes. Wuxi dishes are very elaborate in the production process, which is mainly reflected in the fine selection of materials, the fine production process and the fine seasoning. The food customs of Wuxi people also reflect the fine harmony. First of all, the food customs of each solar term are arranged very carefully, and what to eat in all seasons is very elegant. On the first day of the first month, we eat glutinous rice balls, Yuanbao tea in the first month, green balls around Tomb-Sweeping Day, taro in the morning of Mid-Autumn Festival, salted eggs in long summer and so on. Old people hold birthday banquets, wedding banquets for newlyweds, the first half of the first month, the first half of August, the winter solstice dinner, and the New Year's Eve dinner. Wuxi people pursue harmonious and harmonious food and cultural needs all year round.

In China cooking, sweetness is widely used in the south, especially in Wuxi cuisine in Jiangsu Province, which is known as "sweet in the early days, salty in the mouth, and thick in oil and red sauce". Natural sweeteners such as honey in nature have long been eaten by human beings. The word "honey" has been found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, sugar made from sugarcane juice had been used. Sweet flavoring includes: honey, sugar and caramel.

Wuxi food culture in the new era is being presented to the world with the characteristics of tolerance and innovation. With the rapid improvement of citizens' material and cultural level, the connotation of Wuxi's diet has been continuously developed and upgraded, forming a modern Wuxi food culture system with multiple food cultures. Guangdong cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Japanese and Korean cuisine and French cuisine are developing in Wuxi. The integration of these cuisines not only enriches the flavor of Wuxi cuisine, but also promotes the renewal and development of Wuxi traditional cuisine. Since the 1991s, Wuxi cuisine is no longer too sweet, but has many flavors. Cooking methods no longer stick to tradition, but learn from others; The variety of dishes is no longer single, and innovative varieties emerge one after another; Paying attention to nutrition and hygiene has become the fashion of food consumption in Wuxi. New concepts such as green, ecology and nutrition have taken root and blossomed in many catering and hotel enterprises in Wuxi.