Suzhou Daoxiang Village Tea Candy Store, located in the east section of Guanqian Street, is an authentic time-honored brand in the Suzhou-style pastry industry. According to Tang Changyou, who entered the store as an apprentice in the 13th year of Guangxu (1887) and twice served as the manager of Daoxiang Village, Daoxiang Village was founded in Qianlong period. On August 3 1926, Suzhou Ming Pao published an advertisement for the completion of the new house in Daoxiang Village, saying that the mysterious temple in Suzhou has been in operation for more than a hundred years, and it is still a tall foreign facade because of its business expansion. When the new house was completed, the word "He" was specially added. However, according to 19 14 Jiangsu Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, Daoxiang Village was founded in Tongzhi for three years (1864). However, 193 1 wrote "Food Records of Chunhua Restaurant", saying that the owner of Daoxiang Village was surnamed Shen, and Hongyang took refuge in his hometown during the war. He once served tea and vegetables in a village near Yangcheng Lake, and his business was not bad. After the chaos, he returned to the city and accumulated wealth. Because he intends to expand his business, he set up his company in Guanqian Street. It is difficult to check the above records in detail.

There are also different opinions about the store tricks in Daoxiang Village. According to the legend in the past, the owner of this shop, Wang Qiugen, loved watching Dream of Red Mansions and was inspired by it. He also thought that the raw materials of tea and cake are rice and wheat, so he decided to name it Daoxiang Village. However, according to the book "Food and Beverage in Chunhua Restaurant", the boss surnamed Shen ... is located in Guanqian Street, but the signboard has no inscription, so it is based on his close friend, a radish farmer in Taihu Lake. He likes reading novels. Seeing that there is a plaque like Daoxiang Village in the Grand View Garden of A Dream of Red Mansions, I chose these three words as the title of the temple. There is no need to delve into the origin and founding year of Daoxiang Village. As we all know, Daoxiang Village is a century-old shop. In the long-term production practice, it has formed its own business characteristics, with a complete range of products, including homemade Soviet-style tea, candy, game, roasted seeds and nuts, preserved green salt and western-style candy, biscuits, canned food, dairy products, drinks and so on. We also supply seasonal commodities according to different seasons, such as generous cakes, pine nuts and yellow thousand cakes, fermented cakes in spring, ice and snow cakes, vegetarian mung bean cakes and summer crisp sugar in summer, various moon cakes in autumn and fresh meat jiaozi, hibiscus crisp, water chestnut cake, sugar rice cake and sesame crisp sugar in winter.

The famous brand products of Daoxiang Village are recorded in detail in the food records of Chunhua Restaurant: moon cakes are the best tea food in Daoxiang Village ... Its advantages are rich in sugar and oil, and its entrance is crisp and easy to melt. There are roses, red bean paste, sweet vegetables, salt and pepper. Its price is ten copper coins per cake. Four cakes in a box are called meat moon cakes; If a small meat moon cake, its price is halved, and its name and color are the same as big meat moon cake. But there is a kind of water rose, which is made of white sugar, purples and meat oil. Compared with big meat, it is especially delicious. There are also round and flat moon cakes, called Moon Palace Cake, or Palace Cake for short. There are jujube paste and meat oil in it. Each cake has 20 copper coins, and each box has two. This is the best sweet moon cake. As for salted moon cakes, there used to be only two kinds: south leg and scallion oil. In recent years, fresh meat moon cakes have been added. These three kinds of baked food are suitable for instant eating, so the skin is crisp and delicious, and the flavor is not spared.

Ding Sheng cake and nine niang cake are popular foods in spring. However, Ding Sheng cake is also suitable for Daoxiang Village.

Daoxiang Village is also the best place to smoke fish and wild ducks ... These three (according to: Daoxiang Village, Ye Shouhe and Donglu) must not smoke herring, and it is better to be short than to be extravagant.

The rose lard cake, which went on sale in March and April, is made of white sugar and lard, with bright roses added, which is fragrant and sweet. However, the steamed kettle was eaten by people who got up early at about six o'clock in the morning, and was later taken away by vendors and others, which made people salivate.

Today, the food store in Daoxiang Village continues to produce these traditional famous cakes, such as clear water rose moon cakes, sesame crisp candy, pine nuts and jujube paste biscuits, meat wine cakes, full-flavored smoked fish, shrimp and squid. Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po once introduced the long history of Daoxiang Village with the title of "Four Seasons Tea tastes elegant and fragrant, and the cakes in Daoxiang Village are Daoxiang", 130 more traditional varieties and more than 60 seasonal commodities. It is believed that the cakes produced in Daoxiang Village have their own unique characteristics besides the characteristics of ordinary Soviet cakes, that is, fresh time, equal emphasis on taste and shape. This is the root of Daoxiang Village's enduring for a hundred years.