Eight famous spots in Changshu: ice gourd, pancake, chestnut soup, fried glutinous rice with blood, yam cake, lentil cake, silver cake and fried Yuanxiao.
Among them, crispy and delicious beggar chicken is the most famous, and you can taste the most authentic taste in the famous Wang Si restaurant near Xiaofu Temple, its birthplace. In addition, all kinds of desserts made by local people with bloody glutinous rice taste good and are worth tasting. As a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a great pleasure to taste fresh seafood and hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake, Shajiabang, Changshu, but the price is a bit expensive.
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Tang Zhi Hair Cake Changshu Tang Zhi Hair Cake is a seasonal food in spring, with local winter wheat and fermented grains as the main raw materials. Fermented wine used as medicine can promote blood circulation, regulate menstruation, dissipate stagnation and reduce swelling. Tangzhi Jiuniang cake can be divided into two kinds: meat and vegetarian, and its varieties mainly include rose, bean paste and mint. Hot food fermented cake is better, characterized by sweet, fat, soft and tough, bright color, bright taste and rich wine fragrance.
Lotus seed blood glutinous rice blood glutinous rice is a specialty of Changshu, and the rice grain is dark red as blood. Lotus seed blood glutinous rice is made of sweet-scented osmanthus and candied dates, lined with white sugar lotus plumule. The glutinous rice is purple, the lotus heart is white, the entrance is fat and sweet, and it has the effect of enriching blood. It is included in China snacks-Jiangsu flavor.
The beggar chicken is also called "yellow mud stewed chicken". According to legend, a beggar at the foot of Yushan Mountain in Changshu accidentally got a chicken, which was difficult to cook because of the lack of cooking utensils and seasonings. Therefore, the chicken was roughed, smeared with mud and cooked in the fire, which tasted unusual. This method has been continuously improved by the chef, and its taste is better and its reputation spreads like wildfire. This dish should be cooked with big, fat and tender Sanhuang chicken (yellow mouth, yellow feet and yellow hair).
Mushroom oil noodles pine mushroom oil noodles, a traditional noodle in Changshu, are known as the "king of vegetarian dishes", and happy mushroom oil noodles are very famous in Changshu. Mushroom oil noodles, originally a vegetarian dish eaten by monks in Xiaofu Temple in Changshu, were later favored by diners. 19471June19, Soong Ching Ling and Song Meiling went to the forest outside the temple for a picnic, with a bowl of happy mushroom oil noodles on the table, full of fragrance and attractive color. After tasting it, the Song sisters felt that they deserved their reputation, and they were even more full of praise. They recited: "Good, good, good, unexpected.