1, summer eggs
Suzhou region will eat salted eggs, called "complementary summer". The best is salted duck eggs, because salted duck eggs are rich in calcium, iron and other inorganic salts, calcium, iron than eggs, fresh duck eggs are high, is the first choice for summer supplemental calcium, iron.
2, rice
Rice
Rice, black and oily, fragrant and delicious, by the glutinous rice immersed in the leaves of the tree a few hours after cooking and become. Suzhou area on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, there are many people with Wu rice tree leaves cooked Wu rice, has become a custom.
3, seven porridge
Suzhou rural areas in the summer must eat "seven porridge". Seven family porridge is a collection of neighbors of each family's rice, plus various colors of beans and brown sugar, boiled into a large pot of porridge, by everyone to share.
4, taste three fresh
Folk traditionally have the custom of tasting three fresh in the summer. Three fresh sub ground three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh. Ground three fresh beans, amaranth, cucumber, tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots, water three fresh sea snails, puffer fish, shad. Among them to taste the ground three fresh is the most common.
5, taste eight new
Suzhou place has a "summer taste eight new" food style. This "eight new" is the cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, young beans, Yanghua radish, shad and stonehead fish (yellowtail). Among them, anchovies are the most expensive.