Caizhizhai was set up in the ninth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1870), which was passed down from generation to generation before liberation. In practice, many famous brand products with national characteristics and Suzhou local characteristics have been created. Its characteristics are exquisite selection of materials, fine processing, rich nutrition, sweet and delicious, which not only has the characteristics of traditional candy in China, but also absorbs the advantages of western candy and is unique.

Headquarters: Guanqian Street, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Huang Tianyuan

Huang Tianyuan was founded in the first year of Daoguang (182 1). At first, Huang Qiting, a native of Cixi, Zhejiang Province, set up a zongzi stand at Dongdu Pavilion Bridge. Zongzi is of good quality and good business. After several years of operation, I rented a cabin in Dutingqiao and opened a Huang Tianyuan pastry shop, which is now a famous pastry shop.

Its sweet-scented osmanthus white (yellow) sugar rice cakes, as well as Soviet-style sesame balls with scallion oil, four-color lard rice cakes, various seasonal cakes, quick-frozen series cake balls and large-scale art cake balls, have different shapes and soft and sweet tastes. It highlights the tradition, flavor and characteristics of Suzhou cakes.

Address: No.86 Guanqian Street

Daoxiang village

Daoxiang Village, located on the east side of Guanqian Street, was founded in the 38th year of Qingganlong (AD 1773). It was named after Daoxiang Village in Daguanyuan in Cao Xueqin's masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions. It is the most famous store in Suzhou that produces and distributes Suzhou-style cakes with a long history, and it is also the most representative store that comprehensively inherits and develops Suzhou-style cake shops.

Its traditional foods, such as clear water rose moon cake, sesame crisp candy, pine nuts and jujube paste sesame cake, meat fermented cake, smoked fish, shrimp and squid with penetrating flavor, have their own unique characteristics, that is, they are timely and fresh, and both taste and shape are equally important.

Address: No.72 Guanqian Street

Wanfuxing

Founded in the first month of Qing Dynasty (19 1 1), it was stored in the store, and three baking molds were used at the beginning of the store, with a history of 95 years. According to textual research, these three cake bucket molds are the only "orphans" of Suzhou Suzhou-style cake group, and now Wan Fuxing is regarded as the treasure of the town store.

Wan Fuxing's cakes are "fat, fragrant, soft, sweet, loose, waxy, tough, simple in color and beautiful in shape", which are suitable for all ages.

Address: No.0/2, Dong Zhong.

Ganshengyuan

Suzhou Ganshengyuan Food Co., Ltd. was founded in the forty-sixth year of Qingganlong (178 1). The original store was called "Emerald Terrace", which is famous at home and abroad for producing pine nuts and jujube paste biscuits. It was listed as an imperial snack, and it was renamed "Ganshengyuan" in the seventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (188 1).

Dried biscuits are famous for their full moon shape, golden color, sweet taste, sweet but not greasy, fragrant but not burnt, oily but not overflowing, crisp and delicious.

Address: Guanqian Street 123

Yi Changfu

Yi Changfu is a snack bar, located at Liucun Station (behind Taiwan) in Wuzhong District, Suzhou. Founded in the ninth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, it is a century-old brand specializing in Subang cuisine.

Yi Changfu's fresh meat steamed buns are very popular in Suzhou, with an average of three or four thousand steamed buns sold every day. The "long queue" of steamed buns at the entrance of the store has become a scene that can be seen almost every day on the slate road.