The top ten snacks in Wuxi are: pork ribs with soy sauce, Wuxi steamed buns, clear water oil gluten, Yulan cake, crisp eel in Liangxi, Wuxi Sanbai, radish cake, plum blossom cake and chicken pie.

1. Sauced ribs

Sauced ribs are a special food in Wuxi. It is also a famous Jiangsu dish suitable for all ages, which began in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 1 years. It is cooked with straw chops, soy sauce, soft sugar, yellow wine, onions, ginger, fennel, cloves, cinnamon and so on. The characteristics are: red sauce color, crisp and rotten meat, salty and sweet, very delicious.

2. Wuxi steamed buns

The local people call steamed buns, which is a traditional local dish. This kind of steamed buns appeared in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, with 1 steamed buns as a cage. Now they are sold all over the country and have their own characteristics. Wuxi steamed buns are sweet in taste, thin in skin, big in stuffing, delicious and distinctive.

3. Clear-water oil gluten

Clear-water oil gluten is a traditional local delicacy, which started in the reign of Qing Qianlong and has a history of more than 1 years. At the time of family reunion in Wuxi, it is essential to brew oil gluten with meat at the dinner table. Up to now, from the initial clear water oil gluten to meat-stuffed gluten, gluten-fried shredded pork, vegetable-roasted gluten and so on, it has become a daily meal of Wuxi people.

4. Sanxian wonton

Wuxi people like wonton very much, and all the shops here sell wonton with steamed buns. Although wonton is sold all over the country now, I still feel that Wuxi people have a persistent attachment to wonton.

There are many old shops that have been in Wuxi Wonton Store for a hundred years. Wonton in Wuxi is made of fresh meat, kai yang and pickled mustard tuber, so it is called "Sanxian". Meat and bone soup, dried tofu and egg skin silk are used as seasoning. Very delicious.