1, Su-style moon cake
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes are indispensable. There are many kinds of Su-style moon cakes, including vegetarian, sweet and salty. Among them, Suzhou people's love for fresh meat moon cakes can be seen from the long queue in front of the fresh meat moon cake shop one week before the Mid-Autumn Festival every day.
2. Sweet-scented osmanthus sweet taro
Every August Mid-Autumn Festival, every household in Suzhou likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus and taro. According to the old people, there was a custom of eating taro as early as the Han Dynasty. Taro is white and tender, with sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar, which tastes sweet and delicious.
3. Osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root
Osmanthus fragrans glutinous rice lotus root is also called cooked lotus root. Whenever sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, Suzhou people like to make cooked lotus root with white flowers and sugar and sprinkle some fresh sweet-scented osmanthus, which is sweet and fragrant. Especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cooked lotus root is a necessary snack for thousands of families in Suzhou to enjoy the moon.
4. Chicken head rice
In autumn, when it comes to Suzhou's seasonal food, chicken head rice is the first choice. The head-of-a-chicken rice, that is, fresh Gordon Euryale, has a round fruit and a protruding top, much like the head of a chicken. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, benefiting qi, strengthening kidney and fixing essence. Suzhou chicken head rice, crystal clear, fragrant and soft, tastes very good, and is the best of Suzhou local products.
5. Hairy crabs
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are world-famous. When the autumn wind blows, crabs are fat. Just thinking about them makes my mouth water. In Suzhou, there is no autumn without hairy crabs. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household will put a hairy crab on the table, which is covered with delicious food.
6. Shuihongling
The water red ridge of Suzhou real estate is also called "Suzhou Red". The so-called "fresh water chestnut lotus root" can be eaten as fruit. It tastes sweet and crisp, with a slight astringency in the faint sweetness, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat; Old water chestnut can be used as a snack after being cooked, and it has a unique flavor.
7.ginkgo tree
"Autumn is strong and ginkgo is ripe". Suzhou is a major ginkgo production province in China, accounting for about 20% of the national output. In the Millennium season, in the vast white fruit trees in the east and west hills, careful observation shows that clusters of ginkgo trees are hidden in dense leaves.
8. Osmanthus Jelly
Suzhou, Osmanthus Jelly is a special snack. It is a cake made of glutinous rice flour, sugar and osmanthus. With the improvement of practice, today's Osmanthus Jelly looks much more refined than before: white and red are perfectly distributed on the cake, making all kinds of exquisite patterns, and delicate yellow osmanthus is sprinkled on it. Beautiful color, sweet and refreshing taste, turned into fine slag.