Champion ladder
Although this dish is unique to Tongli, it is very different from the cooking method in Tongli. As for the preparation method, it's a secret. Guests of the same trade are invited to dinner, and this dish must be served. Residents of nearby villages and towns came thousands of miles to Tongli to buy this thing, which also shows its popularity. The pig's trotters cooked in thick oil red sauce are bright red in color, soft, sweet and not greasy in mouth, with endless aftertaste.
Qingtuanzi
According to legend, green zongzi is made by mixing Bromus inermis juice with glutinous rice, so that the glutinous rice is soaked in grass juice to become mud and become emerald green. This is used to wrap bean paste or jujube paste, and then put reed leaves in a cage for steaming. Ming Langying's "Seven Manuscripts" once recorded: "The ancients ate cold food, picked poplar leaves and dyed rice cyan as a sacrifice, and Ziyang was also angry. This is what it means to become a green and white jiaozi. " There is also a legend about Dayu. At that time, Dayu was in charge of water conservancy for thirteen years, and no one was in charge. He dredged the three rivers into the sea, so that the water level in Taihu Lake dropped and the flood subsided, which created conditions for planting winter wheat and won the love of Suzhou people.
Tuisi cake
Pay attention to the three white things in Taihu Lake. There are three dishes here, including Taihu white fish, Taihu white shrimp and whitebait scrambled eggs. They are all served in the morning, authentic peasant cooking, rich in nutrition, light and delicious. Whitebait not only has the effect of conditioning and beautifying, but also tastes good, which is worth a try.
There are small smoked fish everywhere in Tongli, but the small smoked fish in Tongli is different from others, and the local residents especially like this taste. Especially with small bridges and flowing water, it is particularly comfortable.
Grass chicken pot
The raw materials used are grass chickens raised by local residents in rural Tongli, which feed on grass, tender insects and rice. Stewed grass chicken with flat-pointed wild mushrooms is delicious and the chicken is fresh and tender. Recommended place to eat: Tongli Mantianxing Hotel.
Nine niang cake
It is a seasonal food in spring in Tongli, an ancient town. It is a kind of pancake made of fermented wine and flour, which is baked and wrapped with sweet stuffing.
Malt cake collapse
Although the malt cake is ugly, it is the traditional Soviet-style tea in Tongli ancient town, and it is a local snacks that everyone in Tongli can make. This cake is mainly made of rice flour mixed with proper malt powder and fennel picked on the ridge between villages.
Orange cake
Orange cake is a traditional winter food in Soviet cake, which has a history of 100 years. In the past, this kind of cake was specially used by fellow villagers to entertain new guests or visiting son-in-law.
The orange-red cake has uniform particles and delicate taste, and it has a sweet, soft and waxy feeling when eaten in the mouth. After eating, you will leave a faint scent of roses and oranges in your mouth.
Fermented rice wine dumplings
Fermented rice balls are the representative of rice culture. They are crystal clear, smooth and elastic. The method of making dumplings is very simple. Boil the water, put it in the fermented jiaozi, add the soft white sugar, then wait for the water to boil again, put the freshly made jiaozi in the water, and wait for it to float on the water, indicating that it is ripe. Finally, cover the mariko with a thin seal before it comes out.
Min Bing
Min Gao, a specialty of Bentangzhai in Minjiawan, Tongli, is a famous traditional pastry with a history of more than 400 years. Its production is only in Fujian, and it has been handed down from generation to generation, so it is called "Fujian cake". Minbing is made of "Minbing grass", with rice flour as the skin, filled with bean paste and walnut kernel, and then steamed. It is a kind of green ball with dark blue color, bright and thin knot, oily but not greasy, fragrant and smooth, and has the unique flavor of farmers in Jiangnan. In the Qing Dynasty, Minxi cake was once listed as a court tribute for Empress Dowager Cixi to taste.
Huxian famous dish
Shrimp in the cake: mix the egg whites, add rice flour and shrimp, and put them in the pot. Bright color and delicious rosin. You can also put it in a small box with tomatoes, which tastes better.
Three-silk fish roll: choose herring or grass carp weighing five or six pounds, take the middle part of female roe, remove the belly as skin, roll it into shredded ham, shredded chicken and shredded fragrant shavings, put it in a cage, and steam it with seasonings such as yellow wine and chives. Its meat is tender, fragrant and delicious, and its flavor is unique.
Sesame oil eel paste: made of fried eel shreds, ham shreds, chicken shreds, shrimp, etc. Use a little shredded ginger, ghee, mashed garlic and boiled meat oil. When serving, the pepper is sprinkled very thinly, the aroma is tangy and the entrance is delicious.
Gorgon fruit
As a top-grade local product of Tongli, Euryale ferox is known as "ginseng in water" because it is produced in the northwest of Tongli. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Euryale Semen is mainly used to treat dryness and dampness, lumbago and knee pain, tonify middle energizer, eliminate violent diseases, benefit essence and qi, strengthen ambition, improve eyesight and hearing, stimulate appetite, benefit qi, quench thirst, benefit kidney and treat urinary incontinence. Can be used as a medicated diet, soaked in water for half a day, cooked with slow fire, with red dates, lotus seeds, longan can be more delicious.
Supporting cake
On the second day of the second lunar month, there is a custom of eating "supporting cakes" in Tongli countryside. It is said that after farmers eat "bread for support", they will not have backache when they work all year round.
The supporting cake is a flat oval made of glutinous rice flour, with a slightly concave middle, like a waist-shaped collapsed cake.