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 tendon with crab powder, 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, secret sauce fire recipe, warm pot, 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 major 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 major 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, Fenghuang street and so on. Bifengfang and Ligong Dam are famous restaurants and cultural streets in China.

Su-style snacks

Fermented in oil, semi-fermented buns, semi-fermented crab powder buns, steamed buns, crepe soup packets, crab powder soup packets, vegetarian packages of mushrooms and vegetables, large packages of fresh meat, medium packages of fresh meat, steamed buns with bean paste, steamed buns with flowers, lotus buns, steamed buns with peaches, steamed buns with autumn leaves, vegetarian dishes, steamed buns with phoenix tails, etc. Sweet-scented osmanthus sweet potato, sweet-scented osmanthus sweet taro, stir-fried bean sugar porridge, sweet-scented osmanthus chicken head meat, eight-treasure chicken head meat, sweet-scented osmanthus stir-fried lotus root, fresh meat brown, gray soup brown, white sand brown, mung bean brown, lard mixed with sand brown, triangle brown, foot brown, pen brown and so on.