Changshu specialties and delicacies:

1: Beggar's Chicken. According to legend, there was a beggar wandering around Changshu City in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He accidentally got a chicken but could not cook it. In the evening, he came to the moat, picked lotus leaves, wrapped the chicken in lotus leaves, and smeared the outside with patties. He set up firewood on the roadside and roasted it slowly until dawn. Then he peeled off the lotus leaves and opened the lotus leaf wrapper. The chicken was fragrant. It smells amazing and spreads everywhere, alerting the neighbors to see what's going on and marveling! Later, the chef of Wangsi Restaurant improved and processed it, and it became famous all over the world. It was logical that it was named Huaji!

Two: Mushroom oil noodles, Changshu Yushan has a specialty mushroom, mushroom-like mushrooms, especially delicious. The stir-fried noodles in Changshu are very delicious. One of them is mushroom oil noodles, which is a specialty of Changshu. Outsiders come to Changshu to try it. The current price is about 30 yuan per bowl. This is because the mushroom production is very limited. .

Three: Osmanthus wine. In the past, people in Changshu had the tradition of making rice wine. Because of the unique fragrance of osmanthus, some people added osmanthus during the brewing process. The rice wine brewed is fragrant and sweet. Osmanthus wine is known as Wangsi Hotel. The brew is relatively famous.

Four: Duck blood glutinous rice. There is Polong gorge in Yushan, Changshu. Water flows in the gorge all year round. According to legend, there is an evil dragon in the gorge that often harms the people. The Dragon King of the East China Sea got angry and killed the evil dragon, so the Polong gorge flows. The water turned red and flowed into the glutinous rice fields planted by the people below. The glutinous rice planted by the people also turned red. It tasted particularly fragrant and glutinous. Because it was bright and resembled duck blood, the people called this rice duck blood. Nuo!

During the Republic of China, the three Song sisters came to Changshu for a spring outing from Shanghai. They tasted the above four Changshu specialties at the Wangsi Restaurant (Wangsi Hotel) at the foot of Yushan Mountain, and they were full of praise!

Beggar’s Chicken and Liang Mian Huang, interestingly both come from Wangsi Restaurant.

What’s more interesting is that after leaving Wangsi Restaurant, turn right into the mountain. Outside the gate of Xingfukuji Temple, there is another delicacy, mushroom oil noodles.

There is another one I don’t know what it’s called, but it seems like every household can do it. Deep-fried large pieces of pork belly, deep-fried large pieces of fish, then boil the soup and add some vegetables, and you will be satisfied all winter long.

Beggar’s Chicken

Are you coming to Changshu? Go to Changji Noodle House on Huancheng Road to have a bowl of fried noodles. To be honest, you can also go to Renmin Bridge to buy some Songsheng cake balls to eat. To eat, try the glutinous rice and beggar’s chicken in the restaurant, and you can buy hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake to try!