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Gorgon fruit
Because my companion went to Jiangnan water town for the first time, in order to let her know more, we ate a lot of delicious food, some of which were not available, so we bought some to taste. Returned Pot Cake and Sock Bottom Cake are famous snacks in Tongli, which can be taken back as souvenirs for friends and relatives, especially those that have just been baked. Buy a piece and eat it while walking. The taste is the best. It is warm in your hands, with some temperature, and brittle in your mouth. The round cake is called pot cake, which tastes like osmanthus. Tongue-shaped socks have crispy soles, salty and pepper flavors, and each has its own flavor.
In Tongli ancient town, shops selling Euryale ferox cakes can be seen almost everywhere, and the water town is rich in Euryale ferox cakes, so the Euryale ferox cakes made now are fragrant, soft and full of Q-feeling. Euryale ferox cakes are delicious only when they are made, and will become hard when they are brought back. If you are interested, you can ask the boss to cut 35 yuan, which will soon be solved in Tongli.
Euryale ferox, as a top-grade local product in Tongli, comes from Euryale ferox swaying in the northwest of Tongli (commonly known as "chicken head rice") and is known as "ginseng in water". According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Euryale Semen is mainly used to treat damp arthralgia, lumbago, knee pain, tonifying middle energizer, eliminating violence, benefiting essence and qi, improving eyesight and hearing, stimulating appetite and quenching thirst, tonifying kidney and treating urinary incontinence. Can be used as a medicated diet, soaked in water for half a day and simmered with slow fire. It can be eaten with red dates, lotus seeds and longan, which is more delicious. On the way to the Pearl Tower scenic spot, I saw a local woman selling gorgon fruit, fighting with the unshelled gorgon fruit with small pliers. My father went to the restaurant and asked for a soup called gorgon fruit pot. I didn't say anything, so I bought a bag and cooked porridge at home. Euryale ferox is easy to make and tastes sweet. Regret buying less. By the way, I bought a cup of water chestnut Gordon Euryale red bean soup, and the cooking time was not enough. It's not very delicious, but it looks very nutritious.
Before, the residents had a drink by the river. One is to enjoy the cool, and the other is to try the stinky tofu here every time you go to the water town. Strangely, stinky tofu tastes different in every place. When I saw a stinky tofu seller, I asked for a bunch of them, two for five dollars, sitting by the river and a bowl of iced mung bean soup, which is the taste of this place.
Champions hoof
There are many local specialty shops selling champion shoes in Tongli. In the alley of "Ming and Qing Street" where apricot and yellow flags are swaying, it is said that Song Chunyou was the champion of Wei Ruxian High School in Tongli for four years. Wei Zhuangyuan especially likes to eat braised hooves. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Ren Lansheng, the owner of the closed garden, admired the champion Wei and hired a famous chef to cook braised hooves as the main course of the family banquet, nicknamed the champion hooves. Hong Jun, the top scholar at that time, and Sai Jinhua, the concubine, often came to taste it. As for the way to eat hoof pulp, directly put the vacuum-packed hoof pulp together with the bag in the water to cook, so that the soup is not easy to dry and more delicious. How to debone and cut open a hoof: First, pick up a hoof by hand and gently pull out a thin bone from two long bones that run through the whole trotter. Take the bone as a knife and cut the hoof smoothly. This bone was later called "No.1 knife". This kind of champion hoof has been needed since 60 yuan, an ancient town in Tongli, and the store can vacuum pack it for you to take away.
Tanzi git is a famous restaurant in Tongli, featuring local farm dishes, with high cost performance. My innkeeper recommended that we eat here, because the price near Sanqiao Scenic Area is much more expensive than here. Address: No.0/3, Zhu Xing Street, Tongli (next to Pingqiao)
The menu is full of Jiangnan flavor, and two northeast girls have been to Jiangnan several times. I ordered lotus root shrimp, gluten cabbage, shredded bamboo shoots in red oil and scrambled eggs with whitebait. Lotus root, gluten, bamboo shoots
I ate a lot at lunch and my mouth was not idle in the afternoon. I didn't find dinner until it was dark. A whole hoof is too big, so we have to choose red oil roast trotters from primary school. They are bright red, soft and sweet in my mouth, but not greasy. One from 20 yuan.
The best place in Tongli is to see the river view by a small river. I was attracted by an old lady peeling fresh food on the hotel table. Curiosity makes us stay and sit quietly by the river, waiting for the real taste of the water town. Fried broad beans are fragrant, sweet and waxy, and the taste of spring is beyond doubt.
Malantou, a local dish, is said to be eaten by Suzhou people. The best food should pay attention to two words: season. After this spring dish is fried, I think it stimulates the unique aroma of Malantou, some of which are like chrysanthemums we often eat here.
Clam bean curd soup. The old lady is very enthusiastic, but only two dishes and one soup, two bowls of rice and a bottle of beer cost us 89 yuan. Really not as cruel as usual.
There is no bustling morning in Tongli, and the morning in Tongli is ordinary street life. Open the window of the room. It is quiet outside. Breathe free fresh air and feel refreshed. The smell of food wafted from the snack bar, which is also the unique taste of the water town. If you go to the front of the snack bar, you will look around.
My partner and I came to an alley not far from the inn. According to the introduction of online users' raiders, we came to Laijun Dim Sum for breakfast. I don't remember the exact location. We are in the street with git, which has sesame burritos, two-color burritos, rose lard cakes and steaming soybean milk. We also ate sweet-scented osmanthus water chestnut cake. We stayed in Tongli for 24 hours, enjoying the taste of Jiangnan. One day a year is enough.
delicious
1) lunch/dinner: dinner in Tongli is usually a farmhouse meal, which can be eaten in the old street or by the river of sanqiao. There is an old shop in Laojie called Jiutanzi Tongli. It tastes good and the price is good. Rice wine is especially recommended. There are two restaurants near Sanqiao River, Zhuangyuanfu and Meijia cuisine, which can enjoy the river view and taste good. Local specialties include white fish, white shrimp, whitebait (three whites in Taihu Lake), No.1 hoof, fresh river, gorgon euryales and so on.
2) Breakfast: Take care of delicious food (wonton, Su-style noodles) and come to the army to eat snacks.
3) Pastry snacks: socks bottom cake, Gordon Euryale seed cake, green ball, wine cake, malt cake, orange cake, shrimp cake, three-line fish roll and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar lotus root.
This restaurant has a good reputation on the Internet. The meals are all local specialties, delicious and reasonable in price. I only spent 50 yuan to buy a few dishes. His rice wine must be highly recommended. It tastes crisp, like a drink, but it does have the delicious taste of rice. Whitebait fried eggs is a major feature of Suzhou and one of the "Three Whites in Taihu Lake". You can try something you haven't eaten. Braised No.1 hoof is one of the most famous features in Tongli. Shops on both sides of the pedestrian street are listed, which makes you feel fragrant when you look at them.
The soles of socks are crisp and the taste is crisp and fragrant. It feels more like some snacks in the north, but it's not so pocket-sized haha.
To tell you the truth, the two biscuits in Laijun Dim Sum Shop taste just so-so, and they taste too hard.
There are freshly baked cakes in the street, including some green jiaozi. Plum dried vegetable cake, but you can also find it elsewhere.
delight
Tickets include 9 small scenic spots. In the evening, you can go to see the performance of "Ink Painting Tongli" Theater (single ticket 90/ ticket, scenic spot performance package 140), paddle boat (90/ boat, 6 seats), Suzhou Pingtan (Nanyuan Tea House, tea is free), and watch the night scene and listen to songs in Tongli at night.
Tonggu Town was listed as one of the national Taihu Lake scenic spots on 1980, and was listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit on 1982. 1992 was listed as a provincial-level cultural relic protection town, and the scenic spot "Retreat Garden" was listed as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2000. 20 10 Tongli was rated as a national 5A-level scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration. (Network data classification)
Therefore, the retreat garden is the most famous scenic spot in Tongli ancient town.
Siyuan Garden is built from 1885 to 1887. Lan Sheng, the director of the garden, was dismissed and returned to his hometown to build this place, covering an area of nine acres and eight points. Under the ingenious design of Longyuan, a novel pattern of left house, atrium and right garden was built from west to east. The back garden can be described as the most beautiful place in the retreat garden, but the small space is full of charm and artistic conception, which can be described as condensing the landscape essence of Jiangnan gardens, especially in this continuous drizzle.
The third bridge refers to Taiping Bridge, Li Ji Bridge and cheung tsing bridge, which are distributed in the shape of "Pin" at the intersection of three small rivers. Whenever there is a big happy event, my family always walks around the Third Bridge, especially the Taiping Bridge.
The boat is swaying, splashing and rhythmic, as if singing a beautiful poem. The Pearl Tower scenic spot in the north is the biggest scenic spot in Tongli ancient town. Heart Lane is also a fun place in Tongli. It's not a special scenic spot, but actually a very narrow alley. However, because Gu Changwei had filmed a promotional film in Tongli before, more people knew it at once.
The night view of the same room is good. You can walk around at will and always find your favorite pictures.
Ming and Qing Street is the most prosperous shopping street in Tongli, with the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Shops sell all kinds of snacks, specialties, handicrafts and so on. It looks bustling during the day, but as night falls, it becomes deserted here.