Kunshan is a county-level city with strong economic development, which belongs to Suzhou. I have been there for more than half a year. Here, I would like to share with you some local foods to taste when I arrive in Kunshan.

1. Ozao noodles

Ozao noodles are one of the top ten noodles in China, and one of the traditional pasta snacks in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, belonging to the Jiangsu cuisine. When visiting Kunshan, people always go to the "Aozao Pavilion" to taste a bowl of "Aozao noodles". Aozao noodles are most famous for fried fish noodles in red oil and braised duck noodles in white soup.

2. Sauced meat

In late spring and early summer, large and small restaurants and cooked meat shops in Suzhou will offer a very delicious dish with bright red color-sauced meat. This meat is fat and delicious, melts in the mouth, returns to sweetness in the salty, and is very popular. Many Suzhou people also regard sauced meat as a special cooked meat in Gusu City, which is a local specialty and delicious in season. In fact, the ancestral home of sauce meat is not Gusu City (Suzhou City), but Kunshan. Sauced meat is a famous dish in Kunshan, which is also called "braised meat with wine" locally. No one calls it in Suzhou.

3. Sock bottom pastry

Sock bottom pastry is said to be copied by Jinxi people according to the court refreshments in Song Xiaozong. It is shaped like the bottom of a sock, with layers of crispy cakes as thin as cicadas' wings. It is fragrant and crisp when bitten, sweet and salty when eaten in the mouth. It has always been a traditional refreshment that people scramble to taste in the south of the Yangtze River.

4. Shipu Mutton

Shipu Mutton is a special food in Qiandeng Town, Kunshan City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. With its unique taste and good quality, Qiandeng Shipu mutton has accumulated a certain reputation around Kunshan and Shanghai, attracting many diners to taste it.

5. Thousand-lamp meat dumplings

Thousand-lamp meat dumplings are beautiful and exquisite in appearance, fragrant in smell, oily but not greasy in mouth, and have been famous for thousands of years.

6. Duck in Zhoushi

Duck in Zhoushi is a special food in Zhoushi Town, Kunshan City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Zhoushi spiced sauce duck, referred to as spiced duck for short, is one of the famous specialties in Kunshan, which is characterized by its excellent color, fragrance and taste, and has the reputation of "one cooked in one house, fragrant all over the street".

7. Zhengyi Qingtuanzi

Zhengyi Qingtuanzi's hometown is Zhengyi Town, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. The grass used by Zhengyi Qingtuanzi is not green vegetables or wormwood, but a plant called Sauce Wheat Straw, also called Bromus. After such constant improvement and adjustment, Zhengyi Green dumplings have become what they are now. Its color and taste are better than those of other places, so it is famous in Suzhou and Shanghai.

The above are seven local cuisines in Kunshan, all of which are very delicious. Friends who come to Kunshan can try them. Friends in Kunshan are welcome to add comments.

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