Suzhou food guide recommendations are: Suzhou Sauce Pork, Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab, Taihu Three Whites, Suzhou Loquat Cheese, and Suzhou Shrimp Cake.

1. Suzhou Sauce Pork

Suzhou Sauce Pork is a traditional famous dish in Suzhou and one of the braised sauce recipes. It is famous for its bright color, crispness and delicious taste. It goes on the market every year before the Qingming Festival and falls on the market during the Summer Solstice. It is a seasonal product. Each piece of Suzhou sauce pork is about five or six centimeters square. It is bright red in color, crisp but not rotten in the mouth, fat but not greasy, sweet but salty, and the marinade is fragrant and delicious.

2. Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are famous for their large size, thin shell, tender meat, plump yellow paste and delicious taste. Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are divided into male and female. Female crabs are best in September and male crabs are best in October. Female crabs are valued for having more cream, while male crabs are valued for having more meat.

3. Taihu Three Whites

Taihu Three Whites is a special traditional dish in Suzhou and a representative of Taihu fish. Taihu Sanbai refers to the three white fish species in Taihu Lake, namely white fish, whitebait and white shrimp. These three types of fish are famous for their tender, delicious and boneless meat, and are the favorites of Suzhou people.

4. Suzhou loquat cheese

Suzhou loquat cheese is a traditional dessert in Suzhou and a seasonal delicacy in spring. It is made with loquat as the main raw material, adding rock sugar, osmanthus, etc.

5. Suzhou shrimp cakes

Suzhou shrimp cakes are a special snack in Suzhou and one of the representatives of Suzhou-style breakfast. It is made with fresh shrimp as the main ingredient and adding flour, eggs and other auxiliary ingredients. Suzhou shrimp cakes are round and flat in shape, golden and crispy, fragrant, chewy and delicious.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou City