Huzhou must buy specialties: Shuangdudu snow lotus root, silverfish, Miaoxi yellow peach, Lianshi white chrysanthemum, Changxing white fruit.

1, Shuangdu Snow Lotus Root

Huzhou has a long history of growing lotus roots, which began as early as the Tang Dynasty. The main production area in the suburbs of the city, Longxi, Bennan, white bird and other townships, especially in the field of double ditch best. Lake root skin is jade-colored, crisp and juicy, fragrant and sweet, is a good lotus root, so it is also known as snow lotus root.

2, silverfish

Silverfish is a famous specialty of Taihu Lake. Therefore, silverfish is also known as chopped fish or Wang Yu fish. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was known as the three treasures of Lake Taihu together with crabs and white shrimps. Silverfish is shaped like a jade hairpin, tender and transparent, soft and boneless, with a color like silver, which was produced in Lake Taihu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

3, Myo West yellow peach

Myo West yellow peach fruit is round or oval, fruit shape is large, neat, fruit surface flat; pericarp yellow or orange-yellow, villi are dense, thick short, thin skin, not easy to peel; flesh yellow, hard solute, near the core part of the red halo, sweet and sour moderately, with a clear flavor, the kernel flattened round, nuclear small, sticky kernel.

4, Lianshi white chrysanthemum

Lianshi white chrysanthemum has been cultivated for more than 400 years, and is a traditional specialty of Huzhou. The petals of white chrysanthemums in Lianshi are as white as jade and the stamens are as yellow as gold. The white chrysanthemums are especially popular among compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and the southern region as a refreshing drink to relieve the summer heat, and are exported both at home and abroad.

5, Changxing white fruit

Changxing white fruit white fruit tree, also known as ginkgo, life expectancy can be up to 1,000 years, the fruit is called white fruit. Changxing because of the abundance of white fruit is known as the township of white fruit. Changxing white fruit white as silver, delicate texture.