2, chicken head rice. If there is any seasonal food in Suzhou in autumn, the first thing to promote is chicken head rice. Chicken-headed rice, that is, fresh Gordon Euryale, has a spherical fruit with a protruding top, much like a chicken's head. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, invigorating qi, consolidating kidney and astringing essence. Suzhou chicken head rice is like pearl jade, crystal clear, fragrant and soft, and tastes good. It is the first choice for Suzhou native products.
3. hairy crabs. Autumn wind is coming, crabs are chubby, and they drool just thinking about it. In Suzhou, there is no autumn without hairy crabs. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household will put on a hairy crab, which is delicious.
4, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar taro. Every August Mid-Autumn Festival, every household in Suzhou likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus taro. According to the old man, there was a custom of eating taro as early as the Han Dynasty. Taro is white and tender, with sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar, it tastes sweet and delicious.
5, sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice. Osmanthus fragrans glutinous rice lotus root is also called cooked lotus root. Whenever sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, Suzhou people like lotus root cooked with white sugar and sprinkled with some fresh sweet-scented osmanthus, which is sweet and fragrant. Especially on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, fried lotus root is a necessary snack for thousands of families in Suzhou to enjoy the moon.