Suzhou is the center of eastern food culture and the birthplace of Suzhou-style food culture, one of the three major food cultures (Beijing style, Soviet style and Cantonese style).

The famous Su-style signature dishes include: squirrel mandarin fish, shark's fin in clear soup, eel paste with oil, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, lotus stew, etc.

Suzhou is also famous for its snacks. Dried tofu with honey sauce, pine nut candies, rose melon seeds, shrimp roe, squid, jujube sesame cakes, lard rice cakes, etc. are all popular delicacies and must-try. Suzhou snacks are one of the four major snacks in China (Nanjing Confucius Temple Qinhuai snacks, Shanghai City God Temple snacks, Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks and Hunan Changsha Fire Palace snacks are also called the four major snacks in China).

"Deyuelou" and "Songhelou" are time-honored Suzhou-style restaurants; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for traditional Suzhou cuisine; "Zhu Hongxing Noodle House" and "Luyang Wonton" etc. Good quality and low price, more suitable for public consumption.

The main food streets in Suzhou include: Eunuch Alley, Shiquan Street, Xueshi Street, Jiayu Fang, Fenghuang Street and Shilu Kinmen Shopping Mall Food Street. Bifengfang is a famous street for Chinese catering culture.

Biluochun Tea

One of the top ten famous teas in China, commonly known as "frightening fragrance". Kangxi named it "Biluochun" and listed it as a tribute.

Caizhizhai Candy

Suzhou-style candies are well-known in China, with more than 150 varieties in four categories: plain goods, roasted seeds and nuts, soft candies, and special flavors, such as pine nut candies, rice dumpling candies, and peanuts Sugar, three-color pine nut gummy candies, crisp pine nut candies, pine nut and southern date candies, etc. Among them, the rice dumpling candies exclusively produced by Caizhizhai are the most famous.

Suzhou-style preserves

The history of making preserves in Suzhou can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms era. The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Su-style preserves. Among them, "Zhang Xiangfeng" is the most famous and has always been the "palace" food". There are more than 160 varieties of Su-style preserves, among which the golden candied dates, butter plums, golden kumquats, white sugar bayberry and nine-system tangerine peel are the most famous ones.

Su embroidery

The history of Su embroidery can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,600 years ago. Su embroidery, together with Hunan embroidery, Sichuan embroidery, and Guangdong Yue embroidery, are known as the "Four Famous Embroideries in China" ". And it is the first of the four famous embroideries. The themes of Su embroidery are mainly figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and animals, and there are embroidery pieces, album surfaces, screen strips, screens, etc. After the founding of New China, Suzhou artists successfully created double-sided embroidery, and their representative work is "Double-sided Cat".

Taihu Lake Whitebait

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Taihu Lake was rich in whitebait. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, whitebait was listed as a tribute, and together with plum bream and white shrimp, it was known as the three treasures of Taihu Lake. Silverbait is shaped like a hosta, ivory-like in color, has cartilage without scales, tender meat, delicious taste, and is rich in nutrients. It contains protein, fat, iron, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients. The Japanese call it "fish ginseng". Whitebait can be fried, fried, steamed, or made into soup. Whitebait scrambled eggs, whitebait soup, whitebait meatballs, hibiscus whitebait, etc. are all famous dishes in Suzhou cuisine.

Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures

Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures in Suzhou, Yangliuqing Woodcut New Year Pictures in Tianjin and Yangjiabu New Year Pictures in Weifang, Shandong are collectively known as the "Three Major Woodcut New Year Pictures in China". It started in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 350 years. The earliest workshop was on Taohuawu Street in Suzhou, hence its name. It was very popular during the reigns of Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and together with Yangliuqing paintings, it was called "South Peach and North Willow".

Suzhou Wedding Dress

Suzhou Huqiu Wedding Dress is located in the north of Suzhou City. It is known as "the first scenic spot in Wuzhong". Huqiu is a production base specializing in wedding dress manufacturing and wholesale in Suzhou. It is one of the second largest wedding dress production bases in China.

Dried tofu in marinated sauce

Dried tofu in marinated sauce can be eaten as preserves, home-cooked dishes or braised dishes for banquets. It is a famous specialty of Suzhou soy products. It is red in color, has a unique aroma, is rich in marinade, is sweet and glutinous, and has both the flavors of braised vegetables and candied fruit.

Squirrel Mandarin Fish

This fish is red in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour. Emperor Qianlong greatly appreciated it after eating it, and squirrel fish became famous. Today, squirrel fish uses mandarin fish as raw material. Mandarin fish has tender meat, sparse bones and few spines. After being grilled and deep-fried, the head is wide open, the tail is raised, and the inside looks like squirrels. The sound of a squirrel.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs

The three treasures of Yangcheng Lake are Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, river shrimps and mandarin fish. Zhang Taiyan’s wife, Ms. Tang Guoli, said, “I don’t know why Yangcheng Lake crabs are so good, why should I live in Suzhou in this life?”

Beggar’s Chicken

Beggar’s Chicken is a famous dish in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, also known as yellow mud braised chicken. Snacks: Suzhou snacks are one of the four snacks in China (Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Changsha). Suzhou snacks have a long history and are famous all over the world. Dried tofu with honey sauce, pine nut candies, rose melon seeds, shrimp soy sauce, jujube paste sesame cakes, lard rice cakes, etc. are all popular delicacies that you must try. Famous Soviet-style signature dishes include: squirrel mandarin fish, shark's fin in clear soup, eel paste with oil, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, lotus stew, etc.

"Songhelou" is a time-honored Suzhou-style restaurant; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for traditional Suzhou cuisine; "Zhu Hongxing Noodle House" and "Lvyang Wonton" are good quality and low price, which are more suitable Mass consumption.

Su-style snack varieties: steamed steamed buns with fermented oil, semi-fermented steamed buns, semi-crushed crab dumplings with steamed buns, steamed buns with steamed buns, crepe soup dumplings, crab noodle soup dumplings, vegetarian buns with mushrooms and vegetables, large fresh meat buns, medium fresh meat buns, and bean paste Steamed buns, flowering steamed buns, lotus steamed buns, birthday peach buns, autumn leaf buns, bergamot buns, shepherd's purse lard buns, rose lard buns, thorn buns, sesame lard buns, dried vegetable buns, Soviet-style soup buns, tow pancakes, fresh Meat siomai, three delicacies siomai, vegetarian siomai, phoenix siomai, crab powder siomai, shrimp siomai, goldfish siomai, fresh meat steamed dumplings, Sixi steamed dumplings, vegetable dumplings, butterfly dumplings, peacock dumplings, chicken comb samosas, cicada dumplings, Shen Yongxing steamed buns, sweet-scented osmanthus sweet potato, sweet-scented osmanthus taro, roasted bean sugar porridge, sweet-scented osmanthus chicken head meat, eight-treasure chicken head meat, sweet-scented osmanthus roasted cooked lotus root, fresh meat brown, gray soup brown, white sand brown, mung bean brown, lard clip Sand brown, triangular brown, little foot brown, pen brown... Red lotus blood glutinous rice, fried sweet-scented osmanthus blood glutinous rice, five-spice pork ribs, five-spice pork ribs, stuffed snail meat, marinated dried tofu, dried orchid, Zhenze black dried tofu , two towel pages, sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice, jackfruit honey, osmanthus yuanzi, lotus root powder yuanzi, tangerine yuanzi, bean paste yuanzi, fermented rice yuanzi, lard eight-treasure rice, fried eight-treasure rice, sesame dumplings, cold glutinous rice dumplings, fried pork Dumplings, double stuffing dumplings, pumpkin dumplings, radish dumplings, Qingming dumplings, mint dumplings, colorful dumplings, fresh meat dumplings, rose dumplings, shrimp dumplings, bean paste dumplings, five-color dumplings, Soviet-style mung bean cake, clear water mung bean cake, five-color magnolia cake, chives Hezi, fried steamed buns, beef pot stickers, fresh meat pot stickers, four-strand fried dough sticks, candied haws, Soviet-style moon cakes, fermented glutinous rice cakes, rice flour cakes, shortbread cakes, dough cakes, pumpkin cakes, ham and radish cakes, tiger claws, glutinous rice , wrapped in lotus leaves, tofu curd, soy milk, eight-treasure porridge, laba rice porridge, three fresh wontons in chicken soup, crepe wontons, shrimp and crepe wontons, shepherd's purse and meat wontons, fried wontons, glutinous rice cakes, three-legged buns, radish shredded cakes, baked copper rhombus , shepherd's purse three-shredded spring rolls, fish-flavored spring rolls, eight-treasure blood glutinous rice, vegetarian ham, roasted chestnuts with osmanthus sugar, osmanthus chestnuts and ginkgo, crab apple cake, lily cake, orchid cake, eyebrow cake, candied dates cake, hezi cake, flat peach cake, mandarin duck zygote Crisps, apple cakes, thousand-feuille cakes, almond cakes, osmanthus chestnut cakes, flower rolls, pig brain rolls, double peach rolls, silver wire rolls, fried pear cake, Su-style Yangchun noodles, three shrimp noodles, braised pork noodles, braised hoof noodles , Hoof fat noodles, fried eel noodles, fried pork noodles, braised duck noodles, vegetarian noodles, fried fish noodles in red oil, Fengzhen noodles, shrimp loin noodles, eel paste noodles, braised noodles with pickled vegetables, Soviet-style soft fried noodles, Shrimp and crab are yellow on both sides, shredded pork is yellow on both sides, cold fan noodles, open onion oil noodles, white-cut mutton noodles, Aozao braised duck noodles, Aozao fried fish noodles, double-topped noodles, triple-topped noodles, noodles with strips, Lotus seed and white fungus soup, lily and mung bean soup, osmanthus and adzuki bean soup, white sugar lotus heart porridge, mung bean porridge, lily glutinous rice porridge, osmanthus and chestnut porridge, spiced tea eggs, spiced happy eggs, Qiaoguo, fried sugar cake, date paste shortcake, date paste sesame Pancakes, fried stinky tofu, fried yuanxiao, maracas stuffed with lard, scallion pancakes, plum blossom cakes, crabapple cakes, fried rice cakes with shredded pork.

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