Taoxi crock soup is a special food in Taoxi Town, Shucheng County, Lu 'an City, Anhui Province.

a small crock of soup, a plate of stir-fry, a plate of vegetables, a plate of side dishes, 2 yuan money, and three people can eat well.

Anyone who has eaten in Qiaotou Snack Street, Taoxi, Shucheng County, is all attracted by the local snacks which are cheap, delicious and earthy, especially the special flavor of crock soup, which is brought to the north and south of the river with the endless traffic on the national highway.

Snack Street starts from the head of Taoxi Bridge and extends southward along the national highway for about 1, meters, which belongs to the boundary of Hongguang Village. There are more than 6 restaurants and more than 2 employees on both sides of the road, mostly villagers. The annual turnover of the whole street is more than 9 million yuan, and the tax paid is more than 3 thousand yuan.

for more than twenty years, snack street has experienced three stages: rise, prosperity and standardization. In 1982, three brothers Zheng Changying, Zheng Changfu and Zheng Changcai in Hongguang Village took the initiative to open the first private hotel, Taoxi Hotel, at the south end of Taoxi Bridge. They used their own three rooms, their own vegetables, their own hands and cooked home-cooked dishes, specializing in the business of drivers traveling from south to north. As soon as the small restaurant opened, it became a hit, especially the small crock stew, which attracted many diners and became the specialty of the store.

With more diners, the scale of Zheng Brothers Hotel has also expanded, from one to three. Subsequently, Qiaotou Hotel, Fatty Hotel and Shunchang Hotel were listed one after another.

Zheng Changying, the oldest of the three Zheng brothers who started a restaurant, explained the reasons for the prosperity of snack street: local, special, inexpensive and practical. Earth, that is, all local dishes are used; Special, it is a feature of the whole street-small crock soup, each family has more than 2 small stoves, which are lit in the morning, one pot at a time, and slowly simmered; Cheap means cheap; Actually, it is not to kill customers or bully customers. According to incomplete statistics, guests who come here for dinner are almost all over the country, especially in Shandong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. More than 8 cars are parked at noon and night every day. People who have tasted snacks here are Japanese, Germans, Koreans and Indians. The renovation and widening of National Highway 26 has gradually standardized Taoxi Snack Street. Now it is called "Taoxi Food and Entertainment City". The town has organized various investments of nearly 7 million yuan to build an urbanized market town integrating food, entertainment, commerce and residence. The town chamber of commerce has led the establishment of the private economic council of the food city, and the town government has also issued a series of preferential policies to attract foreign investment and expand the scale of the food city.