Changshu's catering is very rich, with many delicious dishes, most of which are very cheap and have good color, smell and taste. There are ten famous dishes, including Jiaohua Chicken, Baizhi Bamboo Shoots, Fish balls with Bone Knife, Pan-fried Chicken, Qingfei Soup, Lotus Crab Bucket, Raw Duck with Bone, Pine Grass Oil, Oil eel Paste and Fried Bean Curd Soup, and eight famous dishes, including ice gourd, Pan Xiang cake, chestnut soup, fried glutinous rice with blood, yam cake and fried Yuanxiao. Among them, beggar chicken is the most famous, crispy and delicious. You can go to its birthplace, the famous Wang Si restaurant, and taste the authentic taste. All kinds of desserts made of blood glutinous rice are delicious and worth tasting.
As a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, Changshu is adjacent to Kuncheng Lake and Yangcheng Lake in the south, and its aquatic products are particularly rich and famous. After visiting places of interest, it is more natural and interesting to taste fresh river fresh and hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake. It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, at the foot of Yushan Mountain, there was a beggar named Hua who got a chicken with yellow mouth, yellow feet and yellow skin. No cookware, no seasoning, no cooking, just roast it in a local way. First, kill the chicken, take out its internal organs, wrap it in wool and mud, then pile the dead branches and leaves into a fire, roast the chicken until the mud is dry and cooked, knock off the mud, and the chicken feathers will fall off with the mud shell, which is crispy and delicious, making it a must in the south of the Yangtze River. Yangcheng Lake hairy crab Changshu is a famous clear water hairy crab producing area in Yangcheng Lake. This crab is huge, weighing half a catty, with a green back and white belly, golden claws and yellow hair, full paste and tender meat. It was once presented to the imperial court as a tribute, and now it is famous at home and abroad. Blood glutinous rice, commonly known as duck blood glutinous rice, has a light purple skin and a deep red rice grain, which resembles duck blood. Using blood glutinous rice to make fermented grains, zongzi, eight-treasure rice, Redmi crisp, rice noodles and other foods is not only beautiful in color, but also sweet and delicious and nutritious. Since the Ming dynasty, it has become a tribute of the imperial court, and Empress Dowager Cixi loves it most. It is shipped from Changshu every year for her to enjoy. Osmanthus wine "Ten miles of green mountains and green waters, Osmanthus wine enters Beijing" is a folk song circulating in the society in the 1950s. Changshu osmanthus wine is really famous in China.