Speaking of Suzhou, One Week Jun always can't help but drool, because there is not only the Jiangnan rain, small bridges and rivers, elegant gardens, holding an umbrella of classical beauty, and a lot of Bardo's food, it's really worth to go again and again!
One, Su Gang Cuisine
Suzhou cuisine is one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, Suzhou cuisine as an important branch of the Suzhou-Suxi cuisine belongs to the "South Sweet" flavor, with superior materials, fresh and sweet, delicious, pay attention to the fire, thick oil and red sauce, not only the selection of materials rigorously, the production of fine, but also the materials for the art of the four seasons, the cooking technique is different! Stewing, simmering, simmering is famous, emphasizing the soup, to maintain the original juice.
01 De Yue Lou
If you go to Hangzhou, you must eat a proper meal is Lou Wai Lou, then come to Suzhou must be De Yue Lou. A century-old restaurant in the Eunuch's Lane near Guanqian Street, with its round arches, high hanging lanterns, and large wooden round tables, the restaurant is ancient and quite flavorful, with a steady stream of diners coming to the restaurant in admiration. The food is served quickly, and although it is a bit pricey, the flavor is really nothing to write home about. Since you are here in Suzhou, you must try it as one of the most famous restaurants in Suzhou.
Recommendations: Steamed pork in lotus leaf, squirrel and cinnamon fish, shrimp with blue snails, cherry meat
Address: No. 43, Lane of the Eunuchs
02 Xiehe Cuisine
His taste is closer to that of the original Su Gang. tips: Xiehe Cuisine is a long-established restaurant of the Su Gang, with a small storefront. Netizens say this restaurant is the price of civilians, the flavor of Songhelou. Longjing shrimp and squirrel Mandarin fish must be ordered, is the signature dish.
03 Zangshu Mutton
Zangshu Mutton is a Han Chinese flavor snack in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It has a long history and is cooked into various mutton dishes with its unique boiling technique. Boiled, white roast to soup color milky white, rich aroma, meat crispy but not rotten, taste fresh and not greasy.
Recommendation: Mutton Hot Pot
Address: No. 204, Linton Road, Pingjiang District (next to Quan Da Fish and Lamb Restaurant)
04 Shijia Restaurant
Shijia Restaurant is famous for the fact that Qianlong dined here when he traveled down to the south of the Yangtze River, and it is rumored that Qianlong ate barbel lung soup and live choked river shrimp here. Mr. Yu Youren wrote a poem: "The old laurel blossom is fragrant all over the world, I have seen flowers all over the Taihu Lake, and I can remember returning to Mudu, thanks to the Shijia's barbel lung soup". He praised the barbel soup here.
Recommendations: sauce square, stir-fried river shrimp, three shrimp tofu, barbel lung soup
Address: Mudu Ancient Town, No. 18, Zhongshi Street; Li Gongdi Phase III, Building No. 3 (near the airport road)
tips: Su Gang cuisine in addition to the Shijia Restaurant, Wu Men Renjia and Pearl Hotel is also good.
Two, Su-style fresh meat moon cake
Southern people have few people do not love the Su-style moon cake, looks golden and oily, eat the skin layer of fluffy, sweet and salty flavors varied. Sweet fillings include pine nuts, walnuts, roses and adzuki beans; savory fillings include ham, shrimp and scallions. Among them, I am afraid that the most memorable is the fresh meat mooncake. A queue of people waiting for the mooncakes to come out of the oven can be seen in front of the stalls of the old firms all year round, with demand outstripping supply during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Changfa Meat Mooncake
The typical Soviet-style mooncake crust is filled with fresh meat in soup, so it can only be eaten on the spot (it's also sweet and salty meat). The line to buy mooncakes at the mouth of Changfa Xi Cake on Linton Road starts at 7 a.m., and there are often people in front of them buying 40 or 50 at a time, and even more buying a hundred at a time. This exaggerated queue strongly confirms the attraction and craving for meat mooncakes. Look at the pots of mooncakes coming out of the oven, and look at the faces of those who are looking forward to buying mooncakes quickly, this is its charm, and it is irreplaceable. In addition to the fresh meat mooncakes and shrimp mooncakes in the past, meat floss mooncakes and durian mooncakes have been introduced in the past few years. Although some other flavors have been introduced, fresh meat is a classic forever.
Three, crab shell yellow
Crab shell yellow, shaped like a crab shell, color like crab. Suzhou people are addicted to tea, the old teahouse, one of the two highest order rate of tea, that is, crab shells yellow. In the era of material scarcity, very occasionally, the crab shells can be used as an early heart, the feeling of the teeth and cheeks, destined to become a beautiful eternity. Among the popular traditional tea foods, the pretzel-flavored sock bottom pastry is also one of them. The little cakes are made with exquisite workmanship, and the layers are as thin as a cicada's wing, which really shows the effort.
Gusu Specialty Snack Bar
This crab shell yellow in Suzhou and a crab shell yellow in Yangzhou's Dongguan Street are both heartfelt. Crab Shell Yellow is actually a small, crab-shell-sized burrito, with a bite-sized texture somewhat similar to Fujian's light cakes. Crab shell yellow must be eaten while hot, crispy mouth full of crumbs. Recommended: crab shell yellow
Address: 53 Daju Lane (near Pingjiang Road)
Four, small wontons
Small wontons are the most common seen in the south of the Yangtze River home dots. Almost transparent skin as thin as crepe, the center of a little pink meat filling, served in the most common white porcelain soup bowl, clear soup sprinkled with some green green onions and garlic leaves, tender yellow egg skin, or add a little seaweed and shrimp, soup fresh and tasty, and can not get enough.
Luyang Hundun
Another century-old restaurant in Suzhou with many branches. The recommended one is located on Linton Road. Their soup is made with old hen, so it is especially flavorful, and the wontons are wrapped on the same day without the use of frozen wontons, so they taste especially good. Green Yang's wontons are thin-skinned and stuffed, and the soup is clear and the meat is al dente.
Recommended: three fresh wontons
Address: 239 Linden Road
Five, sugar porridge
"Duk Duk Duk, selling sugar porridge" childhood rhyme is y rooted in people's hearts, sugar porridge's soft and sweet is also unforgettable. Suzhou's sugar congee is quite famous, added sugar glutinous rice congee first into the bowl, the surface of a layer of red bean paste, red clouds cover the beauty of white snow. When you eat it, it's hot, sweet, fragrant and sticky.
Pan Yulin sugar congee
The nameplate stall, doing the classic Suzhou desserts, dessert-loving girls have to save their stomachs to come here to try, sugar congee is carefully boiled with glutinous rice, and will be added to the thick red bean paste and fragrant osmanthus flowers, Pan Yulin old couple smilingly for the customers to serve congee, so that you haven't eaten it has been sweet and tasty.
Recommended: osmanthus wine wine dumplings, wine dumplings, red bean dumplings
Address: Pi Shi Street, No. 172, outside the north door of the Bird and Flower Market (west of Shijiazhuang Lane)
Sixth, chicken feet
01 Xiangxin Chicken Feet
It's a "small" store, but the business is "stormy good". Chicken claws "and fragrant and soft and glutinous", fat paste "thick", no wonder "good reviews like a tide"; red bean round "soft and sweet The red bean dumplings are "soft and sweet" and "must be ordered every time". Cost-effective also "quite high", belly support round also "can not spend" much money. Is the place "hard to find", "the first time" to go to the best pull on familiar friends. To go to the best morning or late afternoon two to four o'clock, if the meal time to go, must be squeezed into the ~ per capita?10, delicious and inexpensive ~
Store address: Canglang District, Jinfan Road, Tongguan Square opposite
02 chicken feet cranny
This store is opened in a small alleyway on the Pingjiang Road, the door has a large flag sign, so it is very easy to find. The store is small, there are people lined up at the door, but the water operation is actually quite fast, his family put the chicken claws, gizzards, pre-packed in the kraft paper, but also equipped with disposable gloves. Chicken claws 10 yuan 4, duck gizzards 10 yuan 2, chicken feet cooked through very soft, gnawing is also convenient. Duck gizzards are very flavorful, and the flavor of the brine is also good to eat chewy just right, will not be difficult to chew and will not cook too rotten. Recommended: chicken feet, gizzards Address: Pingjiang Road, the middle section of a long lane
Seven, cake dumplings
Huang Tianyuan
Suzhou Xuanmiao Guan next door to the Huang Tianyuan, is a loud and clear cake dumplings old. In the past, Suzhou people loved to eat sweet and sticky food, and the cake dumplings have been a part of the seasonal diet of Suzhou people since ancient times. The store offers ready-made snacks in bulk and packaged souvenirs in the store. Though the cake dumplings are a great story of this store, the answer is still the most favorite green dumplings ~ Recommended: cake dumplings, mint cake, rose muffins must eat; Huang Tianyuan's noodles, also belongs to one of the ten bowls of noodles in Suzhou, it is worth a try. Address: No. 86 Guanqian Street