Suzhou is the center of the eastern food culture, and it is also the place where the Soviet-style food culture, one of the three major food cultures (Beijing-style, Soviet-style and Cantonese-style), is developed. The famous Soviet-style specialty dishes are: Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish, sesame oil eel paste, crab powder and tendons, shrimp with clear sauce, fermented grains, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, snow crab bucket, cherry meat, sauce meat, smoked fish, lung soup, three pieces, fire recipe with dense sauce, warm pot, jujube paste and so on.

Suzhou snacks are also famous all over the world. Dried bean curd, pine nut candy, dumpling candy with rose sauce, watermelon seeds, shrimp-seed squid, jujube paste sesame cake, square cake, Dingsheng cake, begonia cake, plum blossom cake, lard rice cake, etc. are all well-known foods and must be tasted. Noodle shops all over Suzhou show that Suzhou-style noodles with many toppings and paying attention to soup are popular snacks. Suzhou snacks are one of the four largest snacks in China (Nanjing Confucius Temple Qinhuai snacks, Shanghai Chenghuang Temple snacks, Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks and Hunan Changsha Huogong snacks are also called the four largest snacks in China).

there are four major cuisines in China, namely "Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong and Sichuan", with different tastes, which are called "sour in the east, spicy in the west, sweet in the south and salty in the north", while Jiangsu cuisine belongs to the "sweet in the south" flavor. There are many kinds of Su-style foods. After thousands of years of development, there are 12 categories of Su-style dishes, Su-style pot-stewed vegetables, Su-style pasta, Su-style cakes, Su-style sweets, Su-style preserves, Suzhou snacks and Suzhou cakes.

Su Bang's famous dishes are mainly shrimps with snails in spring, preserved with bamboo shoots, watermelon chicken and stir-fried three shrimps in summer, lung-sucking soup and hairy crabs in autumn, and oily chicken and herring throwing water in winter.

Suzhou snacks are also famous all over the world. Dried bean curd with honey sauce, pine nut candy, rose melon seeds, shrimp soy sauce, jujube paste sesame cake, lard rice cake, etc. are all well-known delicacies and must be tasted.

Shopping

Suzhou Shopping Raiders: Suzhou Embroidery

Colorful Suzhou Embroidery is known as a pearl in China's art treasure house. Suzhou embroidery originated in Wuxian County, Suzhou, and now it has spread all over Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Suqian, Dongtai and other places in Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu has fertile land, mild climate, developed sericulture and rich silk, and has been the land of splendid scenery since ancient times. Superior geographical environment, rich brocade and colorful flower lines have created favorable conditions for the development of Suzhou embroidery.

Suzhou shopping guide: micro-sculpture

Among Suzhou arts and crafts, the most delicate and tiny one is micro-sculpture. Micro-carving is to carve tiny paintings, characters or poems on bamboo, ivory and even hair with a very thin triangular knife. The smaller the work, the more precious it is.

Suzhou shopping guide: Su Fan

Su Fan is the general name of Suzhou folding fan, sandalwood fan, silk Gong Shan and paper round fan. It is famous for its long history and exquisite production. The folding fan is named after folding when it is received and spreading when it is used, so it is also called "spreading fan". The fan ribs are mainly made of bamboo pieces, and most of the fan faces are made of rice paper. The production of folding fans in Suzhou began in the Southern Song Dynasty, and famous artists came forth in large numbers in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the production became more and more sophisticated.

Suzhou Shopping Raiders: Su Biao

Su Biao is developed with the development of calligraphy and painting. Suzhou calligraphy and painting are well-known. A good word or painting, after being pasted on paper and bordered by silk, is like icing on the cake, and it is also convenient for the preservation of works.

Suzhou shopping guide: Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures

Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures are named because they focus on the production in Taohuawu area. It is printed by printmaking design, woodcut carving and woodcut overprinting with one plate and one color. It originated in the Ming Dynasty and prevailed in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 311 years.

Suzhou Shopping Raiders: Suzhou Hubi

Hubi is known as the "Four Treasures of the Study" together with Huimo, Xuan paper and Duanyan. In the late 18th century, Hu Bi was introduced to Suzhou from Xing Wu, Zhejiang Province. After the research and transformation of pen makers in previous dynasties, it gradually formed a local style characterized by pointiness, uniformity, roundness and health.

Suzhou shopping guide: Suzhou paper-cutting

Paper-cutting is a kind of traditional folk decorative art in China. As early as the Han and Tang dynasties, folk women used gold and silver foil and colored silks to cut flowers and birds into pieces and stick them on their temples as ornaments. Tang Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellany" said: "On beginning of spring Day, the paper-cut of the scholar-bureaucrat's house was a banner, or hung on the head of a beautiful woman, or decorated under a flower; It is also cut into spring butterflies, spring money, and spring wins. " This trend has been spread to the Qing Dynasty. Gu Lu's Qing Jia Lu also said: "February 12 is the birthday of Baihua, and the girl in the boudoir cuts five colors and sticks them on the branches of the flowers, which is called' rewarding the red'." The ancients used a lot of paper-cut works in beginning of spring and Huachao festivals, which beautified people's lives. It can be seen how important paper-cut is in the customs of Wu.

Suzhou Shopping Raiders: Suzhou Comprehensive Commercial Building

Jiuguang Department Store

Hudong Yuanrong Times Square, where Jiuguang Department Store is located, is a new CBD commercial center that has been planned and developed simultaneously since the administrative center of the park moved eastward. In recent years, landmark buildings and facilities such as the International Expo Center, the Science and Technology Cultural Center, and the Ferris wheel in this region have all appeared, and they are increasingly entering the lives of citizens.

Address: No.268, Wangdun Road, Park

Taihua Mall

Taihua Mall has an existing retail business area of 48,111 square meters, more than 811 brands and 511 parking spaces. For this reason, Taihua Mall has been striving to create an elegant and comfortable environment and atmosphere and provide high-quality and healthy goods and services in line with the people-oriented business philosophy for several years.

Address: No.383 Renmin Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province

Meiluo Mall

Suzhou Meiluo Mall is a subsidiary of Suzhou Function Group, one of the largest private business groups in China, which was established in 1991. Located at the core of Guanqian Street, a business district in the center of Suzhou, with a building area of 41,111 square meters, the mall is a high-end department store leading the fashion trend in Suzhou. The mall brings together many top international brands such as GUCCI, FENDI and ARMANI, as well as famous international and domestic brands.

Address: No.245 Guanqian Street

Suzhou Shopping Raiders: Suzhou Commercial Street

Nanmen Commercial District

Nanmen Commercial District is located in the northern part of Ren Minqiao at the southern tip of Suzhou Ancient City. The famous "Paradise Waterway" Suzhou-Hangzhou Ferry Terminal is located here. The business in Nanmen area is very prosperous, with nearly 11 large-scale comprehensive shopping malls, commercial buildings and supermarkets. There are hundreds of professional shopping malls and shops; There is also a large aquatic product market, vegetable and fruit wholesale market, tea market and electronic market in Suzhou. At the same time, there are nearly 21 cultural and entertainment venues and various flavor restaurants. With convenient transportation, numerous shopping malls and prosperous popularity, it is the most prosperous downtown area in the south of Suzhou City.

transportation: take bus No.2 and No.4, 111, 112, 113, 513, 514, 949, 61, 62, 71, 28, 318, 218, 319 and 5.

shiquan street

shiquan street is located in the hotel area in the ancient city of Suzhou. The famous Nanlin Hotel, Suzhou Hotel, Nanyuan Hotel and Master Garden of Classical Gardens are located on this street. With the prosperity of tourism and the transformation of the old neighborhood in Suzhou, shiquan street has changed its old look, and various restaurants and craft shops have emerged, and business is very prosperous. Walking all over the street, at first glance, there are scattered buildings with white walls and tiles. Behind the new buildings with Ming and Qing styles, restaurants and craft shops are opening one after another, each with its own characteristics. There are restaurants with special fish head simmering soup, tea restaurants integrating Wu culture and catering, mountain city hot pot, Japanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, barbecue, Guangbang and Huaiyang cuisine with east and west flavors, and the cuisines are complete, attracting domestic and foreign tourists. The craft shops on Shiquan Street have their own strengths, including shops specializing in Suzhou embroidery, ceramic antiques, calligraphy and painting, and small pieces of purple sand, pottery, silk, calligraphy and painting, epigraphy, jasper and mahogany.

transportation: take the No.2 bus, No.214 bus, No.47 bus, No.511 bus, No.931 bus, No.55 bus and No.811 bus.

Guanqian Street

Guanqian Street is located in the center of the ancient city of Suzhou, covering an area of 1.52 square kilometers. There are many famous shops and historic sites in the area, which plays an irreplaceable central role in Suzhou's modern urban construction pattern of "East Garden West Area, Ancient City Center, One Body and Two Wings". Guanqian Street is named because it is located in front of the mysterious temple. Its name has a history of more than 151 years so far, and it has been famous all over the world for its century-old shops with many famous features such as Daoxiang Village, Gantaixiang and Huang Tianyuan. Located in Bifengfang-the food street made by eunuchs is famous for its Su Gang food. The mysterious temple, a national key cultural relic protection unit, attracts domestic and foreign tourists with its rich Taoist cultural connotation.

transportation: take bus lines 1, 2, 4 and 5, bus lines 1, 111, 112, 113, 33, 38, 313, 146, 55, 89, 315, 8, 512, 32, 311 and 33.

Fengqiao Street

Fengqiao Street and Hanshan Temple are cultural and tourist commercial streets with strong local characteristics in Fengqiao Scenic Area, with buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties and simple style. There are many shops, which bring together almost all the craft goods in the south of the Yangtze River, including silk, Suzhou embroidery, calligraphy and painting, Four Treasures of the Study, mahogany carving and sandalwood fans, as well as various antique shops, pearl shops, teapot shops and galleries produced and sold by painters and painters.

Travel Guide to Humble Administrator's Garden

Take the 1, 2 and 5 lines, get off at Humble Administrator's Garden Station No.212 (original No.2), No.313 (original No.3), No.923 (original No.23), No.529 (original No.29), No.41 and No.78, and walk eastward for 11 meters.

A Travel Guide to the East Garden of Humble Administrator's Garden

The entrance to the Garden is located at the south end, passing through the porch, front yard and Lanxue Hall, and then entering the Garden. On the east side, there is a vast lawn, and on the west side of the lawn, there are mounds of earth, wooden pavilions on it, flowing water all around, willows hanging low on the shore, rocky rocks and peaks between them, and waterside pavilions and curved bridges. Black pine and Pterocarya stenoptera are densely planted on the mound in the northwest, and the incense hall (tea room) is in the west of the forest. Further west, there is a wall-facing corridor with a leaky window and a number of caves connecting with the central area.

Introduction to the Central Garden of the Humble Administrator's Garden

See the Hill Building → Bamboo Living in seclusion → Listen to the Rain Pavilion → Yuanxiangtang → Xiaofeihong

The central part is the essence of the whole garden. Although it has undergone changes, it has great changes and differences from the early Humble Administrator's Garden, but the garden is dominated by water, with mountains piled in the pool and halls, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions arranged around the pool, which basically continues the Ming Dynasty. From the Map of My Humble Administrator's Garden in Xianfeng period, the Map of My Humble Administrator's Garden in Tongzhi period and the Map of Eight Banners' Meeting Hall in Guangxu period, we can see that the courtyard landscapes of Haitang Chunwu, Tingyuxuan, Lingxi Pavilion, Loquat Orchard, Xiaofeihong, Tingsongfeng, Xiangzhou and Yulantang in the south of the landscape are no different from the current ones. Therefore, the formation of the central style of Humble Administrator's Garden should be from Xianfeng to Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zhouzhuang Travel Guide

Local transportation: There is a tourist shuttle bus to Suzhou North Bus Station, which runs every half hour from 6: 55 to 17: 15, the journey takes about 1.5 hours, and the fare is 15-31 yuan; Or take the bus at Kunshan Bus Station, which runs every 11 minutes from 6: 45 to 17: 45. The journey takes about 1 hours, and the fare is 8 yuan.

Zhouzhuang Cuisine

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan became the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, and specially invited famous chefs to cook all kinds of delicacies, which was named "Three Thousand Family Banquets". Its banquet pays attention to seasonality, exquisite selection of materials, and good color, fragrance, taste and shape. The specialties are: Wansanti, Sanwei Tangyuan, steamed mandarin fish, steamed eel tube, water shield bass soup, ginger river snail, stuffed meat with oil, braised pork with venetian blinds, stewed dried tofu, stir-fried lotus root and so on. You can go to Shenting Restaurant to taste the "Three Thousand Family Banquets". It is located on the edge of Fu 'an Bridge and Shenting Hall. It still retains the style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, is elegant and unique, and is a restaurant with local style. In Zhouzhuang, a water town, rare aquatic products can be found all the time. Among them, the most famous are the "three treasures of the river": perch, white clam and whitebait. Zhouzhuang also produces eels, and it is well known that "rice-cooked eels compete for ginseng". In addition, there are soft-shelled turtles, river shrimps and so on. Zhouzhuang is not only delicious, but also pickled amaranth and green group, which are special products of Jiangnan, are deeply loved by tourists. Countless cakes and cooked foods are like flower markets that are unbeaten in four seasons: sesame cakes, peanut cakes, walnut cakes, salt and pepper cakes, green cakes and so on. Pickled vegetable tip: a sour, fresh and attractive tea dish.

1。 Tiger Hill must go, because it is the first scenic spot in Wuzhong, worthy of the name.

2。 Garden: I suggest you go to 1 or 2. If you live at home, go to Humble Administrator's Garden. The ticket is 81 yuan. In addition, I suggest you go to Canglang Pavilion or Netscape Garden. The rockery in Canglang Pavilion is very distinctive. Netscape Garden is Zhang Daqian's former residence. It is said that he used to keep a lion in it for painting. It costs about 12 yuan to take a taxi from where you live.

3。 Three streets

1) Pingjiang Road, on Ganjiang East Road, with small bridges and flowing water, is quite like Suzhou in the Republic of China

2) Shiquan Street. The scenery is NICE! Shopping is also very good! A very busy and lively place without losing Suzhou style.

3) Shantang Street. On the other side of Shilu (Shilu is also a commercial pedestrian street in Suzhou, just like Guanqian Street).

It is said that it is the most prosperous place in Suzhou in ancient times. It is well preserved and worth visiting.

There are no tickets for these three places, but Shantang Street needs tickets if it wants to enter the scenic spots.

Suzhou's Subang cuisine is very famous. I suggest you go to Fenghuang Street (only 5 minutes' walk from Guanqian Street) for dinner.

Itinerary arrangement: I suggest you go to Humble Administrator's Garden after lunch, and the trip will end around 3 o'clock. Then come out from the Humble Administrator's Garden, like Baita East Road, and the entrance of Pingjiang Road is on Baita East Road. After shopping, you are very close to Phoenix Street. Go directly to Phoenix Street for dinner! The restaurants are all very good, including griddle, Sichuan cuisine and Suzhou cuisine, depending on your taste. If you have enough time after dinner, you can stroll along Fenghuang Street and go straight ahead. Not far away, you will see Shiquan Street. The night scene here is very beautiful. Oh, by the way, your 24th is Saturday. You should go and see the music fountain in Suzhou (every Friday and Saturday night). It will be a pity to miss it! It starts at about 7: 31 to 8: 11 and lasts for half an hour.

The next day, you take a taxi to Tiger Hill. You can play for about three hours. After lunch, you can walk along the 7-mile shantang to shantang street, and take a taxi if it's too far! Stroll around the mountain pond, which will end at about 3 o'clock. You can choose to go to another garden or visit Pingjiang Road again. The snacks on Pingjiang Road are very authentic!

A brief introduction to Suzhou Travel

Bus route: (Bus price: 1 yuan, air-conditioned 2 yuan, 3 yuan)

Tour 1: Huqiu Xiyuan Stay in Huanxiu Mountain Villa Guanqian Street (Yiyuan) Xuanmiaoguan Humble Administrator's Garden Lion Forest (Suzhou Museum, Folk Museum) Beitasi Silk Museum Railway Station

Tour 2: Huqiu Qingtang Railway Station Beitasi Humble Administrator's Garden (Lion Forest). Guanqian Street Twin Towers Nets Garden Canglang Pavilion Panmen Scenic Area

Tour No.3: Railway Station Qingtang Xiyuan Hanshan Temple suzhou amusement land Royal Garden Water Park

Tour No.4: Railway Station Silk Museum North Temple Paguanqian Street Yiyuanqiao Canglang Pavilion Tang Yin Tomb Hengshan Mazhuang West Spantang Phoenix Cemetery Lingyan Mountain Tianping Mountain

Tour No.5: Xiangmen Twin Towers Lion Forest Humble Administrator's Garden Panmen Scenic Area

Economical and easy to find.