breakfast
If you don't want to run around looking for it, I suggest you come to Wu Tong Road (just navigate and search Wu Tong Road 3 1). There are several breakfast shops on the street, covering most of Huzhou's special breakfasts that I think are worth eating. There are old people wearing vests and fashionable young people who come to buy breakfast. This is the most typical morning in Huzhou.
Xinshi tea cake
Xinshi is a town in Huzhou, and tea cakes are actually meat pies. At that time, vendors often took it to the door of the teahouse to sell it, which is why they got the name.
The freshly steamed tea cake is particularly soft and glutinous, and the meat is full and juicy. It tastes grainy, but it doesn't stick to teeth. The layer soaked in gravy is especially delicious.
Lard raisin cake
Lard cake has two flavors: sweet and salty, and the red one is sweet. The boss said the color was dyed with wild vegetable juice. The taste of lard cake is smoother than tea cake. You can buy a cake separately or wrap fried dough sticks.
By the way, in Huzhou, fried dough sticks and baked wheat cakes are officially matched.
Snow jiaozi/Meat jiaozi
There are two kinds of snow dumplings in Huzhou, one is "Linghu Snow Dumpling" for making tea, which is so crisp that every bite loses slag, but you can't buy it until the weather is cold.
The other is dumplings dipped in icing for breakfast, similar to the sugar cakes sold by Xinfeng snacks in Hangzhou. As the name implies, meat dumplings have meat inside, crispy outside and fresh inside, so eating one is not enough.
Songmao baozi stuffed with juicy pork
Maotangbao comes from Daixi, a small town in Huzhou. When steaming, loosen the needles at the bottom so that the fragrance of the trees can be steamed into the dough.
Soup dumplings are not called because there is soup in them, but when they are eaten, they are made into a bowl of bone soup with chopped green onion. When you dip the soup bag in, the fluffy dough will absorb the soup.
This soup dumpling shop on Wu Tong Road doesn't steam pine needles. If you have high taste, you can go to Renji Songmao on Longwangshan Road. Personally, I think its meat is fresher and its soup is more delicious.
The last one is just breakfast. Only a few shops, from snacks to big shops, have kept their original appearance. This store has been open for 10 years, and it has not been renovated or upgraded at all, but the business is still good.
The store specializes in cooking rice and sells it by weight 1.5 yuan. Girls buy around 2 yuan. There are dried tofu, lard residue and carrots in it. The most authentic way to eat is to wrap a fried dough stick.
No matter what kind of breakfast is mentioned above, it can be served with a bowl of bean curd or soybean milk. You can choose sweet and salty. Breakfast can be found in any shop under the old street, which is generally delicious.
Noon Chinese food
I recommend noodles or wonton, which is the soul of Huzhou cuisine.
The delicious noodle restaurant in Huzhou is mainly Changxing Regan Noodles. People who can eat don't look at the menu when they enter the store. First, they shouted to the boss, "Let's drink from a bowl." When the noodles are cooked, the boss will let you go to the counter. You can see what toppings are available today. Add whatever you like, and don't cap it.
The essence of dried noodles is sauce, not too dry or too oily. Salinity and consistency should be moderate, so that noodles can be hung evenly and melt in the mouth.
Recommend four noodle restaurants with their own merits to ensure that each one is delicious.
Lao Liang gan Diao
Address: No.937 Fenghuang Road
Laogan selects fine noodles, and the sauce is particularly rich, which is suitable for people with heavy tastes. The toppings in the shop are the richest I have ever seen, and they are different every day.
Yipin noodles
Address: No.50 Qinlao Street
Yipin noodle restaurant is close to the city center and has a good location. It's made of wood, and its taste is slightly lighter than that of Lao Liang.
The meatballs in the shop are worth eating. They are moderately fat and rich in flavor. Wake up your taste buds with sweet pickles.
Biplanar
Address: Downstairs, Building 7, Qiaozixiang Community
Ah, noodle restaurant is a legend in Huzhou. It queues up early in the morning and its business hours are only in the morning. Everyone knows it's delicious, and everyone knows B.
Huzhou produces Hu sheep, and mutton noodles are the noodles that seal the gods in my heart. Mutton should be stewed in a big pot all night. Every bite is fragrant with meat, and there is just the right spicy garlic flavor, perfect.
In Huzhou, there are as many wonton shops as noodle shops, with smooth skin, plenty of meat and fresh soup. Although there are many wonton shops in Hangzhou, I think they are really incomparable.
Chow sang kee
Address: No.43 Hongqi Road (with many branches)
The most famous one must be Zhou Shengsheng's big wonton. Wonton skin is too light to eat. Kaiyang, flat-pointed dried bamboo shoots and fried (miscellaneous) wonton are three kinds that I think are more characteristic of Huzhou. If you feel delicious, you can pack raw wonton and go home.
Lianmayou wonton
Address: No.55 Qingtang Road
Shanlian not only produces lake pens, but also spicy wonton. The secret of delicious food lies in this spoonful of secret spicy oil added to the soup. The point is not spicy, but fragrant.
Grandma in the shop will sit down and cook the bag to keep it fresh. Sprinkle a spoonful of lard residue, even the bottom of the soup can't help but drink it clean.
Niupengtou wonton
Address: Laodong Road 12
The signboard of the cowshed head is thin-skinned wonton. The skin of wonton can be transparent and slippery and addictive.
The skin of wonton is thin, but the meat is not thin at all. This is solid and worthy of the price of a bowl in 9 yuan.
dinner
Dinner is the highlight. We need some local characteristics. When you arrive in Huzhou, you must eat three whites of Taihu Lake: white shrimp, whitebait and whitebait.
White shrimp tastes the best. This is a dish that can't be cheated for freshness. You can tell whether the shrimp is still dancing when you serve it.
This is the best way to eat fresh and tender white shrimp. Dipping in this sour and sweet sauce is very appetizing.
Fish can be fried or steamed. Long and soft. Whitebait can't live out of the lake, so the others are frozen and can only be eaten fresh in the cities along the Taihu Lake.
This white fish looks like a silver machete. Its meat is tender. Scallion or steamed is good. Avoid using too strong a taste, but cover up the delicate taste.
Where to eat three whites of Taihu Lake?
There is a place near Taihu Lake called Fisherman's Wharf, where there are many restaurants. I can always find a scenic spot facing the lake. Every time I go, I will choose "Huzhou Laoxian", which is cheap and good.
If you drive along Taihu Lake for another 6 kilometers, you will arrive at Taihu Fengqing Street. There is also a street full of restaurants. Although the environment is not as good as fisherman's wharf, it is easier to park and the price is more affordable.
In addition to these two food gathering places, I would also like to recommend several special food restaurants in Huzhou:
Yongxin fish with Chinese sauerkraut
Address: No.45 Paimentou, Yushan Village
Fish with Chinese sauerkraut is very popular in Huzhou. Hot and sour Chongqing pickled fish, after the transformation of Huzhou chef, has become the Jiangnan flavor at the bottom of clear soup, which is fragrant but not spicy. This is good news for people who don't like spicy food.
Yongxing pickled fish is hidden in the unknown path, but its business is booming.
There is no menu in the shop, and the proprietress will take you directly to the hot kitchen to order. If you want to taste the local characteristics of Huzhou, you can order fried meat pie, mushy shredded eel, fish balls, fried brocade and snail roast chicken.
Jintaicai
Address: No.26 Tian Min Road
Huzhou's food is salty, but Jintai's food is not so salty to cater to the public's taste. It's delicious and the product is great.
In a popular restaurant like Huzhou, all the ingredients were fresh that day. If you go late, you may not be able to order the signature dishes.
However, there are so many dishes worth ordering in Jintai that you can't finish one meal, such as shrimp fish maw, fine sand sheep tail, snail pot, shrimp stinky tofu, steamed taro, braised pork and stir-fried water chestnut meat. Bringing more friends is also a positive solution.
Shanliren local restaurant
Address: No.29 Laodong Road
The villagers in the fly restaurant don't have a menu either, so they just look at the menu.
Huzhou people love stinky tofu, especially steamed tofu, which is delicious. The shop is full of home-cooked snacks with full flavor. If you come in the evening, you can order crayfish and grilled fish for dinner.
night snack
As for the midnight snack, it must be fried raw.
Huzhou Midnight Food Store is a fried shop. Order a fried dumpling and make a bowl of bone soup. Huzhou fried dumpling is small and thin.
Recommend several fried shops certified by Huzhou people:
Longbai dessert branch
Address: 50 Tasha Street
Ginger fried dumpling
Address: Xinhua Road 173
Renji Songmao
Address: Longwangshan Road 1 189
Shengqiang snack bar
Address: the intersection on the north side of Pangong Bridge in Shima Community
There are so many delicious foods. Is there anything you can take home to share with your friends and family? Yes!
Traditional Ding Sheng cake
Address: No.252 Taxia Street
Huzhou is famous for snacks and cakes. Besides the time-honored brand, I also want an old Amway store. There are so many cakes here that people are dazzled. There are two kinds of cakes: ginkgo lard and original bean paste. Also divided into large specifications and small specifications.
Not only is it delicious, but the cake is also valuable, especially in Osmanthus Jelly. Buy it home and steam it. Soft and sweet.
In different seasons, the products in the store will change. Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to buy black sesame balls, Linghu snow dumplings in winter, and moon cakes with meat stuffing in Mid-Autumn Festival.
Chow sang kee
Address: No.43 Hongqi Road (with many branches)
Chow Sang Ji is a treasure. In addition to wonton, chicken feet and other kinds of marinated vegetables are worth buying, as well as thousands of packages of fresh meat in Kaiyang. Take it home to make soup and make sure it's delicious.
Zhou Shengsheng also has a Huzhou syrup soup, which was specially introduced in summer. It has the taste of mint, which can reduce the heat of 100. You can buy materials in the store and pack them to take away.
I compiled a food map. Click to enlarge.