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. Honey-glazed dried tofu, pine nut candies, rose melon seeds, shrimp soy sauce, jujube paste sesame cakes, lard rice cakes, etc. are all popular delicacies that you must try.

Jinjin Dried Tofu: You can buy authentic Jinjin Dried Tofu at Caizhizhai or large supermarkets in Guanqian Street, Shilu and other places. If you are not used to sweets, you can choose spicy braised ones. Dried tofu in sauce.

Candies at Caizhizhai: You can buy authentic Suzhou-style candies at Caizhizhai in Guanqian Street and other places, with a wide variety of candies, including rice dumpling candies, pine nut candies, sesame candies, etc.

Huang Tianyuan Pastry: Huang Tianyuan’s pastry shop is said to have 360 ??varieties of pastries, and the types of pastries also change with the seasons. Some pastries are only available during specific periods of time. For example, the fermented rice cakes made around Qingming Festival are filled with brown sugar and lard, and the outer shell is fermented fermented rice cakes. They are made in a special baking pan. They are not expensive, but you often have to wait in line. .

Begonia cake and plum blossom cake: the two most beautiful snacks in Suzhou. Eating crabapple cake is a pleasure, and watching the chefs in the shop making crabapple cake is another level of fun. There is a hawker on Shenxian Street in Suzhou who sets up a stall making plum blossom and crabapple cakes all year round.