The most famous are Suzhou’s top ten specialty snacks.
Su-style fresh meat mooncakes.
Su-style mooncakes are golden and buttery, with soft skin, salty, sweet and delicious, and various flavors. Everyone in the south loves to eat them.
The salty ones include ham, chives, shrimps, etc. The sweet ones include walnuts, roses, pine nuts, adzuki beans, etc.
The most coveted mooncakes are fresh meat fillings. In front of some time-honored brands and old signboards, you can often see people queuing up to wait for the mooncakes to come out of the pan.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eating mooncakes come in an endless stream.
Fengzhen Noodles.
This is a kind of noodles made of meat bones, eel bones, stewed meat and stewed broth. The soup also contains distiller’s grains and snails. The preparation is very complicated, but it exudes the aroma of meat and wine. The fragrant noodles are definitely a specialty in Suzhou.
Ozao noodles in red and white soup.
This snack is characterized by its variety of flavors, including red oil abalone noodles, white soup braised duck noodles, braised pork noodles, wild shrimp noodles, etc. It has a unique taste and has countless fans.
Chicken head rice soup.
This snack is very particular about eating. It must use chicken head rice from Nantang. When eating, it should not be excessive, but a small amount. Eat it all at once. The last point is that it must be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. If you miss it, you will have to wait until next year.
Crab shell yellow.
Crab shell yellow is one of Suzhou people’s favorite tea snacks.
In the era of food shortage, it was also used as breakfast.
Perhaps it is for this reason that crab shell yellow has now become a famous Suzhou snack.
Fish flavored spring rolls.
This is a unique feature of Suzhou spring rolls.
The spring rolls are as thin as paper and as round as a mirror. With the addition of mermaid meat, they are even more delicious and correspond to the characteristics of the "land of plenty".
The oil is boiled and fermented.
This snack is also called "Xinglong Steamed Bun", which means prosperity.
This is a kind of pasta that uses less fermentation and is crispy on the outside and loose on the inside after steaming.
Small wontons.
The most common dots in Jiangnan.
The cortex is very thin, revealing a little pink inside the flame, and is often served in white porcelain soup bowls.
Add chopped green onion, garlic sprouts, dried shrimps, seaweed, etc. into the soup to make it really delicious.
Sugar porridge.
Suzhou’s sugar porridge is famous far and wide. Add some brown sugar to the rice porridge and sprinkle red bean paste on the surface. Stir it when eating. It will taste sweet, hot and fragrant!
Wine rice cake.
After the Spring Festival, the streets of Suzhou will be filled with a strong sweet and sour taste. This is the fragrance of fermented rice cakes.
Jiuniang cake is a spring snack that is only available in spring.
It looks like a small mooncake with flame inside.