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, shark's fin in clear soup, oily eel paste, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, lotus stew and so on.

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

"Deyuelou" and "Songhelou" are old-fashioned Soviet-style restaurants; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for its traditional Su-bang cuisine. "Zhuhongxing Noodle Restaurant" and "Lvyang Wonton" are inexpensive and suitable for mass consumption.

The main food streets in Suzhou are eunuch lane, shiquan street, Xueshi street, Jiayufang, Fenghuang street and Shilu Jinmen Shangshi food street. Bifengfang is a famous food and beverage street in China.

"Biluochun Tea"

It is one of the top ten famous teas in China, and its common name is "Scaring people and making them fragrant". Kangxi gave it the name "Biluochun" and listed it as a tribute.

Caizhizhai Candy

Suzhou-style candy enjoys a good reputation in China. There are more than 151 varieties in four categories: Ming goods, roasted seeds and nuts, soft sweets and special flavors, such as pine nut candy, dumpling candy, peanut candy, tri-color pine nut candy, crisp pine nut candy, pine nut jujube candy, etc. Among them, the dumpling candy exclusively produced by Caizhizhai is the most famous.

Suzhou-style candied fruit

The history of Suzhou's candied fruit can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, and the Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Suzhou-style candied fruit, among which "Zhang Xiangfeng" is the most famous and has always been "court food". There are more than 161 varieties of Soviet-style candied fruit, among which the most famous are golden jujube, buttered plum, golden kumquat, white sugar bayberry and nine-system dried tangerine peel.

Suzhou Embroidery

The history of Suzhou Embroidery can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,611 years ago. Suzhou Embroidery, Hunan Hunan Embroidery, Sichuan Embroidery and Guangdong Embroidery are called "Four Famous Embroideries in China". And it is the first of the four famous embroideries. The themes of Suzhou embroidery are mainly figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals, including embroidery pieces, book covers, screen strips and screens. After the founding of New China, Suzhou artists successfully created Shuang Mianxiu, whose masterpiece is "Double-faced Cat".

whitebait in Taihu Lake

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, whitebait was abundant in Taihu Lake. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, whitebait was listed as a tribute, and it was also called the Three Treasures of Taihu Lake together with plum and white shrimp. Whitebait is shaped like Hosta, with ivory color, scaleless cartilage, tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition, and contains many ingredients such as protein, fat, iron, riboflavin, calcium and phosphorus. The Japanese call it "fish ginseng". Whitebait can be fried, fried, steamed and made into soup. Scrambled eggs with whitebait, whitebait soup, whitebait balls and hibiscus whitebait are all famous dishes in Soviet cuisine.

Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures

Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures in Suzhou, Yangliuqing Woodcut New Year Pictures in Tianjin and Yangjiabu Woodcut New Year Pictures in Weifang, Shandong are also called "Three Woodcut New Year Pictures in China". It started in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 351 years. The earliest workshop was in Taohuawu Street, Suzhou, hence its name. During the reign of Yongzheng and Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, it was very popular, and it was also called "Southern Peach and Northern Willow" with Yangliuqing New Year Pictures.

Suzhou wedding dress

Suzhou Huqiu wedding dress is located in the north of Suzhou, known as the "first scenic spot in Wuzhong". Huqiu is a production base specializing in wedding dress manufacturing and wholesale in Suzhou, and it is one of the two largest wedding dress production bases in China.

marinated bean curd

marinated bean curd is a famous specialty of Suzhou bean products, which can not only be tasted as candied fruit, but also be used as a home-cooked dish or a feast. It is red in color and sauce, unique in fragrance, full of marinade, fresh, sweet and soft, and has two flavors of marinated vegetables and candied fruit.

Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish

This fish is red in color and sauce, crispy outside and tender inside, sweet and sour, which is greatly appreciated after being dried and eaten, and the squirrel fish has become famous. Nowadays, squirrel fish use mandarin fish as raw material. The flesh of mandarin fish is tender, and its bones are sparse. After being cut and fried, its head is wide open, its tail is tilted, and it looks like a squirrel inside. When it is poured with shrimp, dried bamboo shoots and tomato sauce, it will make a sound of sneering like a squirrel.

Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab

The three treasures of Yangcheng Lake are Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab, Shrimp and Mandarin Fish. Mrs. Tang Guoli, Mrs. Zhang Taiyan, said, "I don't know if Yangcheng Lake crabs are good, so why stay in Suzhou in this life?"

beggar's chicken

beggar's chicken is a famous dish in Changshu, Jiangsu province, also known as braised chicken with yellow mud. Snacks: Suzhou snacks are one of the four major snacks in China (Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai and Changsha). Suzhou snacks have a long history and 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 foods and must be tasted. The famous Soviet-style signature dishes are: Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish, shark's fin in clear soup, eel paste with fragrant oil, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, lotus stew and so on.

Songhelou is an old-fashioned Soviet-style restaurant. "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for its traditional Su-bang cuisine. "Zhuhongxing Noodle Restaurant" and "Lvyang Wonton" are inexpensive and suitable for mass consumption. Su-style snack varieties are oil-fermented, semi-fermented, semi-fermented crab powder, steamed buns, crepe soup packets, crab powder soup packets, mushrooms and vegetables, fresh meat packets, fresh meat packets, bean paste steamed buns, flowering steamed buns, lotus steamed buns, peach buns, autumn leaves packets, bergamot packets, shepherd's purse lard packets, rose lard packets, and so on. Shrimp Shao Shao, goldfish Shao Shao, fresh meat steamed dumplings, Sixi steamed dumplings, green vegetable dumplings, butterfly dumplings, peacock dumplings, cockscomb triangle dumplings, cicada dumplings, Shen Yongxing steamed bread, sweet-scented osmanthus sweet potato, sweet-scented osmanthus sweet bean porridge, sweet-scented osmanthus chicken head meat, sweet-scented osmanthus cooked lotus root, fresh meat brown. Braised bean curd, dried orchids, Zhenze black bean curd, two towel pages, sweet osmanthus wine, pineapple, sweet osmanthus yuanzi, lotus root starch yuanzi, orange yuanzi, bean curd yuanzi, fermented yuanzi, lard eight-treasure rice, fried eight-treasure rice, hemp balls, cold dumplings, fried meat balls, double stuffing balls, pumpkin dumplings and radish dumplings. Leek zygote, fried steamed bread, beef fried dumpling, fresh meat fried dumpling, four-strand fried dough sticks, Sugar-Coated Berry, Soviet-style moon cakes, distiller's grains cakes, rice alum cakes, crisp cakes, flour-coated cakes, pumpkin cakes, ham radish cakes, tiger paws, glutinous rice, lotus leaf wrapped dead people, bean curd, soybean milk, eight-treasure porridge, Laba porridge and chicken soup with three fresh wonton. Fish-flavored spring rolls, Babao Xuenuo, vegetarian ham, osmanthus sugar fried chestnuts, osmanthus chestnut ginkgo, begonia crisp, lily crisp, orchid crisp, eyebrow hair crisp, jujube crisp, zygote crisp, flat peach crisp, mandarin duck zygote crisp, apple crisp, thousand-layer crisp, almond crisp, osmanthus chestnut crisp, flower roll, pig brain roll, double peach roll, silver wire roll, fried pear cake. Shrimp loin noodles, eel paste noodles, cabbage Huimian Noodles, Soviet-style soft fried noodles, yellow on both sides of shrimp and crab, yellow on both sides of shredded pork, cold noodles with fan, noodles with scallion oil in kai yang, noodles with white-cut mutton, stewed duck noodles in Aozao, fried fish noodles in Aozao, double-poured noodles, three-poured noodles, noodles streaked, lotus seed tremella soup, lily mung bean soup, sweet-scented osmanthus red bean soup, white sugar lotus nut porridge and mung bean. Thank you for adopting ~