The three major features of Pingjiang Road are water alleys, food and private houses.

Pingjiang Road is a classic water alley with a long history in Suzhou. Its food is one of the outstanding features of Pingjiang Road. There are a large number of old-fashioned houses preserved around it, and it is rare to see the steel bars of high-rise buildings from a distance. Pingjiang Road Water Alley

Pingjiang Road is a small road beside the river, connected to the Humble Administrator's Garden in the north and overlooking the Twin Towers in the south, with a total length of 1,606 meters. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty's Suzhou map "Pingjiang Map", Pingjiang Road was clearly identifiable as the main road in the eastern half of Suzhou at that time. For more than 800 years, not only the river shape and street system of Pingjiang Road have basically remained the same as before, but the water town pattern of "parallel waterways and adjacent rivers and streets" has also been clearly preserved. Pingjiang Road Food

There are three main features of the food on this street:

First, the street food along the old street from beginning to end, cooked by local aboriginal residents. Wearing Jiangnan-style clothing, you can sell and shout along the street, including sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, fermented rice dumplings, large bowls of tea, and other characteristic Pingjiang Road street snacks.

The second is the shop with blue bricks and white tiles facing the street. Many friends who know how to eat come here specifically for it.

The third is restaurants of some scale, mainly selling Suzhou cuisine, with more authentic old-fashioned flavors, such as: squirrel mandarin fish, crab roe tofu, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour fish, pickled hoof, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, etc. All are must-order dishes. Residential houses on Pingjiang Road

There are a large number of old-fashioned houses preserved around Pingjiang Road, and it is rare to see the steel bars of high-rise buildings from a distance. Most of the residential buildings on the west side of the river are built along the river. They are old houses with white walls and blue tiles, wooden grille windows, and the wood is mostly made of brown-red or brown-black, which is light and distinct. The exterior walls are mostly mottled, but they are as if the paintings are peeling off.