Suzhou has a long history and culture, and there are many delicacies handed down from ancient times to the present. In the summer, Suzhou also has a variety of seasonal pastries and drinks to cool off the heat. If you travel to Suzhou in summer, you can taste these cakes and drinks in Suzhou. Here are some Suzhou delicacies.

: Summer seasonal pastries and drinks that are necessary to cool off in Suzhou:

1. Mint cake

There is no cake that is too sweet or greasy in summer. Instead, there's a refreshing peppermint pancake. The turquoise cake is dotted with various colored nuts. With a soft and waxy texture and the coolness of mint, it is one of the must-have snacks to beat the heat.

2. Mung bean soup

Suzhou people must drink mung bean soup in summer. The mung bean soup in Suzhou is different from the rest of the country. It has various ingredients such as red silk thread, green silk thread, glutinous rice, winter melon candy, candied dates, and mint. It’s very pleasant to have a bowl of iced mung bean soup to clear away the heat and reduce the heat during the Huangmei weather.

3. Fried meat dumplings

Fried meatballs are one of Suzhou’s seasonal delicacies. The fried stuffing is wrapped in steamed glutinous rice and japonica rice dough and then marinated. The finished product is as white as jade, soft and waxy, fragrant and delicious. A particularly salty pastry in summer is fried meatballs.

4. Sea Mission

In May every year, Songhua Group and Wumi Group are listed in Mudu and Dongshan. Black rice rice dumplings are rice dumplings steamed with black tallow juice and glutinous rice flour, and are very similar to green rice dumplings.

5. Songhua dumplings

The fillings of Songhua dumplings are sesame, bean paste or sugar water, and the outside is a layer of yellow-scented pine flower rolls, which makes people appetite. Golden pine pollen is taken from pine flowers. It is not only fragrant and smooth, but also has medicinal value and is regarded as a 'miracle medicine' by the people. Top-quality pine nut glutinous rice balls, golden in color, sweet sesame candy filling, tender glutinous rice glutinous rice balls, and light yellow pine pollen, mixed together, the mouth is sweet and glutinous, and the mouth is filled with the taste of nature.

6. Immortal cake

The fairy cake is made by adding bean paste, sesame, melon seeds, fruit ingredients, etc. Based on japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour. The taste is soft and sweet, and it is more suitable for the elderly. For Suzhou people, eating fairy cakes is not only an adherence to traditional culture, but also a kind of memory. However, the fairy cake is only available for a short period of time in May, and it is only sold for three to five days at the earliest, so you must eat one when you come across it.

7. Mung bean cake

Mung bean cake is a delicious summer snack in Suzhou. Teacher Wang Zengqi once said: "Among the mung bean cakes from all over the world, Ji Qingxiang from Kunming in South China and Caizhizhai from Suzhou are the most delicious. They are heavy in oil and added with roses." Su-style mung bean cake is small and delicate, spicy and delicious. It tastes soft, oily and slightly cold. The delicate and fragrant taste can sweeten the whole summer.

8. White water dumplings

Simple white glutinous rice, with the aroma of Zongye, eaten with white sugar, is different from ice cold.

9. Lily soup

Summer is the season when lilies are on the market. White tender lily is rich in meat and has the effect of replenishing the body and replenishing qi. Wash the lilies, add mung beans and boil, and a simple and delicious lily and mung bean soup is ready.

10. Sour plum soup

Summer cooling product. If you don’t want to work hard to make it yourself, then time-honored brands such as Caizhizhai, Ye Shouhe, etc. They all sell sour plum juice. Buy a bottle and mix it with ice water according to your taste. It's sweet, sour and cold, and most of the heat dissipates in an instant.

1. Wolfberry and Tremella

A delicious dessert. Wolfberry has various effects such as immune regulation, antioxidant, and anti-aging. Put some rock sugar and put it in the refrigerator. It's cool and healthy.

12. Shield Whitebait Soup

Water shield, one of the "Eight Water Immortals" of Taihu Lake, is cool in nature, diuretic and has a smooth taste, while whitebait is one of the "Three Whites of Taihu Lake". Transparent and petite. The water shield and whitebait soup is green and white, clear and refreshing, and has been praised by many writers.