The famous Su-style signature dishes include: squirrel mandarin fish, shark's fin in clear soup, eel paste with oil, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, lotus stew, etc.

Suzhou is also famous for its snacks. Dried tofu with honey sauce, pine nut candies, rose melon seeds, shrimp roe, squid, jujube sesame cakes, lard rice cakes, etc. are all popular delicacies and must-try. Suzhou snacks are one of the four major snacks in China (Nanjing Confucius Temple Qinhuai snacks, Shanghai City God Temple snacks, Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks and Hunan Changsha Fire Palace snacks are also called the four major snacks in China).

"Deyuelou" and "Songhelou" are time-honored Suzhou-style restaurants; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for traditional Suzhou cuisine; "Zhu Hongxing Noodle House" and "Luyang Wonton" etc. Good quality and low price, more suitable for public consumption.

The main food streets in Suzhou include: Eunuch Alley, Shiquan Street, Xueshi Street, Jiayufang, Fenghuang Street, Ganjiang Road and Shilu Kinmen Shopping Mall Food Street. Bifengfang is a famous street for Chinese catering culture.