Food snacks in Changshu

There are ten famous dishes (Jiaohua Chicken, Stewed Bamboo Shoots with Hundred Juices, Bone-breaking Swordfish Ball, Fried Chicken in Pot, Clear Soup for Removing Lung, Lotus Crab Fight, Raw Duck with Bone-breaking, Pine Tree Grass Oil, Oiled Eel Paste and Oiled Tofu Soup) and eight famous dishes (Ice Cucurbita, Pan Xiang Cake, Chestnut Soup, Stir-fried blood glutinous rice, etc. Among them, the crispy and delicious beggar chicken is the most famous. You can taste the authentic taste at the famous Wangsi Restaurant near Kofukuji, its birthplace.

In addition, all kinds of desserts made by local people with blood glutinous rice are delicious and worth tasting.

As a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a great pleasure in life to go to Changshu to taste fresh river and taste Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

Changshu specialty

Yushan Green Tea

Yushan Mountain in Changshu, which is "ten miles of green hills and a half into the city", is not only beautiful in scenery, full of poetry and painting, but also rich in green and refreshing, fragrant and nourishing tea: Yushan Green Tea. On the top of the Yushan Mountain, there is a mountain with many strange stones, which is shaped like a blade chopping an axe. It is called Jianmen, and the surrounding mountains are flat and full of tea trees. Because it faces the blue lake and the air is pure, every year around the "Grain Rain", tea trees grow buds, which are picked in time and roasted carefully to produce high-grade green tea, which is famous at home and abroad, so it is also called Jianmen green tea. After liberation, Yushan Forest Farm was specially set up for unified management. Especially since the reform and opening up, with the attention and support of the local government, scientific cultivation has made Yushan tea more lush and green. In addition, the frying and cultivation technology has been continuously improved, and the quality of tea has risen linearly. The authentic Yushan green tea produced by the tea factory operated by Yushan Forest Farm now enjoys a worldwide reputation.

beggar chicken

beggar chicken is also known as braised chicken with yellow mud. According to legend, there was a beggar at the foot of Yushan Mountain in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. After slaughtering the chicken and eviscerating it, because there was no cooker, he spread mud on the mountain, cooked it in the fire, removed the mud shell and ate it, which was very delicious. "beggar chicken" got its name from this. In the 9th year of the Republic of China, Zhu Aer, a famous chef in Mountain View Garden, chose "three yellow" hens (yellow feather, yellow mouth and yellow feet), added chicken gizzards, fresh meat, ham and mushrooms as fillers, wrapped them in lotus leaves, and improved the production techniques such as mud coating, paying attention to the heat, stewing and shelling, without losing their original shape, putting them in pots, pouring sesame sweet sauce and sesame oil. Because the skin is golden yellow, the aroma is overflowing, the meat is tender and tender, the ingredients in the belly are palatable, the color and smell are good, and the reputation spread like wildfire. In 1983, this dish was awarded the famous and special product certificate of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, and was listed in China Menu.

osmanthus chestnuts

At the foot of the scenic Yushan Mountain, there are abundant precious osmanthus chestnuts in Yushan Mountain. Changshu has a habit of planting osmanthus trees. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, osmanthus flowers bloom in front of and behind the house, and the villages smell fragrant. At this time, chestnuts are gradually maturing. Sweet-scented osmanthus chestnuts are rich in starch, protein and sugar, and have high nutritional value. They can be eaten raw or cooked. The raw food is sweet and crisp, while the cooked food is sweet and delicate, full of Gui Xiang. If it is made into a chestnut soup, it will be a sweet and refreshing dish; If you use it to roast chicken, the chicken will be rotten and crisp, and the taste will be bone-deep. It is a famous dish suitable for all ages.

Oncomelania

Oncomelania is an arboreal organism and can be used as a meal. It is a miracle that all snails in the world are found, but only the snails in the pool in front of the Xingfu Temple in Changshu are natural. Gong Liben's "Song Chuang Kuaibi" in Ming Dynasty says: "When a Zen master went out to see disciples cooking snails, he smashed them away. The Zen master put snails in the stream with a curse, and all the snails came back to life. So far, there are no snails in the stream." It can be seen that this snail existed hundreds of years ago, and formed a wonderful legend to spread among the people. Why this pool is the only place where this innocent snail exists, and its mystery needs further study and discussion by biologists.

Hupu Yellow Croaker

Located in Hupu Town, the Yangtze River Estuary, it is rich in delicious yellow croaker. Every year in March and April of the lunar calendar, flowers are in full bloom, and the weather is beautiful. Fishing boats gather in Hupu Port, and people come and go, which is very lively. Yellow croaker called "Hundred Days Yellow" came into the market with spring. Yellow croaker is a kind of seafood. Every spring, fishermen go fishing in the sea, scatter live fish from the net into the cabin and pickle them with salt, so they are also called salted yellow croaker. People buy this kind of fish, go home, remove the scales, open the belly, wash it and dry it in the sun. It can be stored for a long time and eaten as a home-cooked dish. Because yellow croaker is plump and tender, it can make a variety of dishes. In addition to salting and storage, dry fumigation, bad stains, or whole stew or diced red stew are all delicious and delicious, which is one of the favorite seafood of Changshu people.

green turtle

green turtle, an ornamental animal, has become a unique decoration on the desk, especially when it is kept in a white porcelain bowl filled with clear water, its hair is more green and lovely, which is pleasing to the eye. Green turtle originated in the shade of Yushan mountain stream. Qin Huaihai's poem goes, "The water and hair of the turtle are all green". Turtles have ivory floors, and those with white heads and Zhu eyes are the most expensive. Breeders must be washed frequently, and the water should be fresh water or fresh water. In case of bleaching powder water, the hair will be rotten. Spring warmth is taken out of the altar, and fish and shrimp are eclipsed in early summer. Hibernate at the beginning of winter, and when you enter the altar or jar, you won't eat or move, and you will take it out at Qingming next year. Each container will hold one head, and if you hold more than one container, you will lose your hair.

puffer fish

In the Changjiang Estuary of Changshu, there are not only delicious seafood such as shad, yellow croaker and swordfish, but also a kind of puffer fish with small and plump eyes. Although this kind of seafood is delicious, there was a saying in the old days that "eating puffer fish is tasteless", but you should be careful when eating it, and never be careless. Because this fish is highly toxic in its belly, there is poisonous juice in its spine, fin tail, liver and other places. As the saying goes, there is a ring of "desperate dolphin" eating the river. Therefore, before eating, you must ask an experienced chef to sort out the viscera of the fish belly, wash it, then fry it in oil, then add seasoning and cook it repeatedly, and then cook it until the meat is rotten and crispy before eating. In order to prevent poisoning, it is best to cook a pot of "reed root soup" before eating fish for detoxification. In a word, you must be especially careful when eating this fish to prevent poisoning accidents.