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, glutinous rice dumplings with rose sauce, watermelon seeds, shrimp roe, 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). "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, bachelor street, Ligong Dam and Fenghuang street. Bifengfang and Ligong Dam are famous restaurants and cultural streets in China. Biluochun tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China, and its common name is "scary and fragrant". Kangxi gave it the name "Biluochun" and listed it as a tribute. In addition, Changshu Jianmen green tea and Zhenhu tribute tea are also Suzhou specialty teas. Caizhizhai Candy Su-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 light sugar pine nuts, zongzi candy, sliced pine nuts, three-color soft sweets, crisp pine nuts and jujube candies, among which the zongzi candy exclusively produced by Caizhizhai is the most famous. Suzhou-style candied fruit The history of making candied fruit in Suzhou 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. The history of Suzhou embroidery can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,611 years ago. Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Sichuan embroidery and Guangdong embroidery are called "the 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 was rich in whitebait in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. 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 Suzhou Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures, Tianjin Yangliuqing Woodcut New Year Pictures and Shandong Weifang Yangjiabu Woodcut New Year Pictures 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 is one of the two largest wedding dress production bases in China. It is a famous specialty of Suzhou bean products to relish dried bean curd, which can be tasted as candied fruit, or 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. This fish in Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish is red in color and sauce, crisp outside and tender inside, sweet and sour, and it is greatly appreciated after being dried and eaten, so the squirrel fish is 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 Yangcheng Lake Three Treasures 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?" Jiaohua Chicken Jiaohua Chicken is a famous dish in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, also known as braised chicken with yellow mud. Changshu lace, Suzhou sandalwood fan, mahogany furniture and sculpture, jade sculpture, clear mud inkstone, Jiang Sixutang Chinese painting pigment, silk clothing, and Soviet-style lanterns are all specialties of Suzhou, and they are well-known at home and abroad for their exquisite production and rich cultural atmosphere.