The famous Soviet-style specialties are: sweet and sour mandarin fish, sesame oil eel paste, crab powder tendon, clear shrimp, fermented glutinous rice, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, snow crab bucket, cherry meat, sauce meat, smoked fish, (fish) lung soup, three pieces, thick sauce fire formula, warm pot, jujube paste cake and so on.

Suzhou snacks are also world famous. Dried bean curd, pine nut sugar, rose sauce glutinous rice balls, watermelon seeds, shrimps, jujube paste biscuits, square cakes, Ding Sheng cakes, begonia cakes, plum blossom cakes, lard rice cakes, etc. They are all well-known delicacies and must be tasted. Noodle shops all over Suzhou show that Su-style noodles with more toppings and more attention to soup are popular snacks. Suzhou snacks are one of the four major snacks in China.