flavor snacks

spring rolls

Spring rolls are seasonal snacks in Wuxi. It is baked into a round leather with white flour, then spread the prepared sunken heart on the leather, fold the two ends, roll it into a long roll and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. Spring rolls are thin and crisp, soft and fragrant, and have a unique flavor. They are the best seasonal products in spring.

Tofu flower

Tofu flower is a traditional snack in Wuxi. It makes tofu flower in a big jar and sells it while baking, which is tender and hot. When eating, it is a flavor snack that all ages like in Wuxi, including cooked soy sauce, chopped green onion, laver, shrimp skin, mustard tuber powder, sugar and sesame oil.

silver silk noodles

one of Wuxi's famous features. It uses refined white powder, adds eggs, mixes them, rolls them into noodles, and hangs soup with meat bones and chicken. Silver silk is as white as snow, thin as a string, the soup is clear and delicious, smooth and soft, delicious, and it is a favorite snack for customers inside and outside the city.

Fang Gao

Wuxi famous pastry. In 1943, Chong'an Temple Liufangzhai master Wang Yuqing introduced Huzhou Dafang Cake into the system. Square cakes are made of a special square wooden template, and the cake powder is sieved to show a concave shape. Fresh meat, bean paste, vegetable lard and other fillings are put in, and then a layer of cake powder is sieved, scraped flat, cut into pieces with a knife, and steamed in a cage with high heat. The cake is white, soft in powder, full in stuffing and rich in Jiangnan flavor.

Begonia Cake

was created in the Qing Dynasty, and it was named because the cake looks like a begonia flower. It is prepared by mixing flour and yeast powder into paste with cold water, brushing a little water and oil in a special mold, injecting flour paste into stuffing such as bean paste, fresh meat and vegetable lard, covering the surface with flour paste, adding diced sugar lard and red, green shredded melon and melon seeds, covering the iron plate sprinkled with white sugar, and baking on a coal stove. Begonia cake is sweet and delicious, especially hot food.

Plum Blossom Cake

Plum Blossom Cake is a local snack in Wuxi. It is made of superior flour, yeast powder and water, which are mixed into a paste, injected into a hot plum blossom mold, filled with various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard, roses, etc., and then injected with the paste, sprinkled with white sugar and shredded red and green melons, covered with a hot iron plate and baked on the cake mold. This cake is golden yellow, shaped like plum blossom, soft and delicious, suitable for all ages.

Fermented rice balls

Fermented rice balls have a history of one hundred years in Wuxi. It uses white glutinous rice flour to mix and toughen with hot water, cuts it into small squares, and rolls it into a small round with a flat screen, which is similar in size to cotton seeds. In addition, mash the wine and sugar into a bowl, and put the cooked dumplings and soup into the bowl. The glutinous rice dumplings are soft and sweet, and they are loved by the elderly.

radish cake

Wuxi-style snacks. Wash and shred the radish, marinate it with a little salt, squeeze out the water, add the chopped green onion and mix well. In addition, flour and cold water are mixed into a slurry lake shape, and then a round mold spoon made of white lead skin is used. The bottom layer is covered with powder slurry, and shredded radish is added, and then covered with batter, fried in an oil pan until golden brown, and demoulded.

Tangtaro

Wuxi traditional name. It selects the taro seeds of local top-quality taro, peels them, washes them, puts alkali, burns them until they are purplish red, then turns them into fire stew, adds red ponds and sweet osmanthus, and boils them. It has the characteristics of crisp taro, bright red color, fresh and clean sweet soup and overflowing fragrance, and is a timely snack suitable for all ages.

Wuxi steamed bread

Wuxi traditional name, which has the characteristics of not breaking the skin when picked up, not leaking the bottom when rolled over, full of bittern when sucked, fresh and not greasy. Steamed bread has thin skin, rich stuffing, tender and fragrant taste. In autumn and winter, boiled crab yellow oil is added to the stuffing, which is the famous "crab powder cage", which is delicious when eaten.

Four-color glutinous rice balls

Wuxi traditional famous spots. It selects 7% of Bai Yuan and 3% of white stalks, washes them with clear water and immerses them in water, then grinds them into gouache with water, puts them into a cloth bag to remove water with stones, rubs them evenly, and then wraps them into stuffing. When eaten, it can be cooked in boiling water, soft, tough and smooth, and the stuffing is fresh and clean.

meigong cake

white flour is selected to make crispy flour, and the prepared stuffing such as fresh meat, bean paste, salt and pepper are respectively wrapped in the crispy flour, and the cake is turned upside down and upside down twice, and the pan surface is reversed inside and outside and baked until cooked. Meigong cake is golden yellow with thin crust. It tastes delicious when it is eaten hot out of the oven.

Yulan cake

This cake is made of glutinous rice flour, filled with vegetable lard, red bean paste, fresh meat, roses, sesame seeds and other fillings, put in a pan and fried in oil. It is golden yellow, crispy outside, soft and waxy inside, sweet and salty, and attractive in flavor.

Shaomai

Pork leg meat, shepherd's purse, etc. are mixed with seasonings to make vegetable meat and lard stuffing, and refined white flour is mixed with water to make skin sheets with thin edge and thick bottom layer, which are wrapped in stuffing and can be used after steaming. This snack is delicious and non-sticky.

dried bean curd with oil

Cut the old bean curd into 1cm thick with a knife, fry it in an oil pan one by one until golden brown, put it in a bowl, cut it with scissors, and then pour the seasoning. This snack has an attractive aroma, crispy outside and tender inside, and is very popular among the public.

Famous dishes

Crispy eel in Liangxi

There is a saying in Wuxi that "eel competes with ginseng in the summer". Eel meat is sweet and wet, rich in protein, calcium phosphate and vitamin A, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, expelling wind and dampness, and strengthening bones and muscles. Crispy eel is brown in color, dark and shiny, crisp, chewy and can be broken into several pieces, loose, soluble in mouth, salty in sweetness, fragrant with onion and ginger, crisp and delicious, and can also be eaten by the elderly with bad teeth.

stir-fried Dayu

stir-fried Dayu, also known as stir-fried shrimp. Choose two and a half Jin of fresh prawns with green shells, remove their heads and shells, squeeze out shrimps, wash and drain. Add refined salt, egg white and water chestnut paste, stir-fry in an oil pan, add Shaoxing wine and monosodium glutamate, stir-fry in the pan, add sesame oil to the pan, and some of them are surrounded by bean sprouts. Its fragrance is overflowing, with a little white in the green, and its color, fragrance, taste, shape and beauty are beautiful.

Rotten milk meat

Select square meat with five flowers and three layers of thin skin and ribs, cut each square meat into four squares with a weight of one and a half, blanch it in boiling water, take it out, wash it in clear water, put a pot mat in the pot, put the small square meat in the pot, and add clear water until it is flush with the meat surface, and add Redmi, cooking wine, onion, ginger, oil and oil. The meat oil does not overflow, is not broken or greasy, and has a sweet and salty taste. Because of its color like red sufu, it is named sufu meat.

Crispy whitebait

Whitebait is a rare and precious freshwater fish, which is produced in the freshwater lakes along the southeast coast of China. Its whole body is white as jade, and its meat is tender and spineless. Its quality is the best in Taihu Lake. Crispy whitebait is made of high quality whitebait from Taihu Lake through seasoning, hanging and frying. It has the characteristics of full body, milky yellow color, crisp outside and tender inside, delicious and palatable, and rich nutrition. It tastes better if you dip it in seasoning when eating. This dish has been listed as a famous dish in Wuxi.

mirror-box tofu

Take three small boxes of tofu, cut each bag into four pieces, put them into a colander to filter out the water, gently slide them into an oil pan with 7% to 8% heat, blanch them until all sides are golden, then hollow out the center of the tofu, put the mixed fine meat stuffing in the hollow center of the tofu, then embed shrimps on the meat stuffing, decoct them in the oil pan, take them out and add them in the pan. Put some starch and sesame oil in the pan, arrange them neatly on the plate, and sprinkle some green beans, which are red and green, black and white, beautiful in style and fragrant. Each piece of tofu looks like a rectangular mirror box, and its skin is wrinkled and golden yellow, which sets off the golden shrimp and looks good.

Food House

The main food streets in Wuxi are: Huangting Food City on the second floor of Chong'an Temple; Nanzenji Food Street; Zhongshan road food shopping street.

Chong'an Temple Food City and nanzenji Food Street

Chong'an Temple Food City has Huangting food, while nanzenji Food Street in Chaoyang Square has famous Mu Guiying snacks. There are many kinds of food in these two places, and the environment is also very good. Basically, Wuxi's famous snacks can be found in these two places.

Zhongshan Road Gourmet Shopping Street

There are many famous Wuxi snack bars in Zhongsan Road Gourmet Shopping Street, among which Wang Xingji is very popular. The signature dishes "Chicken Soup Three Fresh Wonton" and "Steamed Bread with Fresh Meat" have won many awards in the whole province and the whole country, and won honorary titles such as "Chinese Famous Snacks". In addition, the series of stinky stewed vegetables, crab powder wonton, crab yellow soup packets, crab powder dumplings, etc., are also well received by consumers.