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Mudu Food

Overview of Mudu Ancient Town Food

The Taihu Lake Basin where Mudu is located has fertile land and rich products, including fruits and vegetables with strong local flavor. Well-known everywhere. Mudu is also the hometown of handicrafts. Historically, there are famous masters such as Yuan Yuchang in sculpture and painting, Zhu Bishan in silverware, Lu Zigang in jade carving, and Shen Shou in embroidery. Their works are all national collections. Today, the Mudu area's handicrafts are still strong and are rich in silk, embroidery, mahogany carvings, mud inkstones, calligraphy and painting, stone carvings, etc. They are famous all over the world and are popular among Chinese and foreign tourists.

Located at No. 18 Zhongshi Street, it was founded in the 55th year of Qianlong's reign (1790). After a hundred years of hard work, it has gradually formed a unique cuisine system based on the top ten famous dishes. It is known as stone dish in the world and is one of the representatives of Subang cuisine. Among them, Baifei Decoction is even more famous in Jiangnan. Celebrities such as Li Genyuan, Yu Youren, Li Zongren, Zhang Daqian, Fei Xiaotong, Gai Jiaotian, Jin Shengbo and others have come here to taste it.

You can go to Shijia Restaurant, a century-old restaurant, to taste barbel lung soup and Taihu river shrimp. In addition, the pine nut and jujube paste sesame cake produced in Qianshengyuan, Mudu Town is very famous.

Special delicacies of Mudu Ancient Town

Black rice

Black rice has a long history and appeared in the Tang Dynasty. It was called "Qingjing rice" at that time and was a Taoist request. The health-preserving food of immortality is the food of Taoist fasting days. Du Fu's poem "Gift to Li Bai" says: "How can I not have green rice to make my color good? I am suffering from a lack of large medicinal supplies, and the traces of mountains and forests are swept away."

郲Feitang

鱼 The liver is fat and tender, floating on the scene, the fish meat is delicate, and the soup is clear and delicious. It is a seasonal dish in summer and autumn. "Ban Fei Tang" was originally called "Ban Fei Tang". Using grouper lungs to prepare various dishes has been popular in Suzhou as early as the Qing Dynasty.

Taihu River Shrimp

The Taihu Lake Basin where Mudu is located is fertile and rich in products. The lake delicacies with strong local flavor are well-known everywhere.

Tasting location: the century-old "Shijia Restaurant".

Book-Collecting Mutton - Whole Sheep Feast

"Book-Collecting Mutton" has a history of hundreds of years and is well-known in East China. The biggest feature of the "Book Collection Whole Sheep Feast" is that diners can eat a lot of everything on the sheep, but it is not like the northerners who put the whole sheep on the table and eat it piece by piece with a knife. . One of the unique features of Bibliophile's roasted mutton is that the mutton is cooked in a wooden barrel pot, and the taste is particularly delicious.

Tasting location: Zangshu Mutton Food Street, located 1 km south of Baixiang Bay. There are more than 50 mutton shops of various sizes on the entire street.

Jujube Sesame Cake

Suzhou Mudu Date Sesame Cake is one of Suzhou’s special pastries. Its filling is steamed black dates and then mashed into puree with sesame, pine nuts, melon seeds and sugar. Wait until mixed evenly. This cake is crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, sweet and delicious, and is a pastry suitable for all ages.

Purchase place: Recommend the old store "Qianshengyuan".

When it comes to Mudu’s gourmet specialties, people always talk about Shijia Restaurant’s barbel lung soup and Qian Shengyuan’s jujube paste sesame cakes. In fact, the ancient town’s delicacies are also famous for their black rice and black rice dumplings. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, black rice is “cooked by every household and eaten by every household”, which has become a unique scenery.

Don’t forget to go to Shantang Street to taste the jujube mud cake of the time-honored brand "Qian Shengyuan" when you go to Mudu. This is also a must-have in Mudu. If you can soak a pot of incense tablets, eat a piece of jujube cake, and listen to a Pingtan in the bookstore in the town, the flavor of this ancient town will be as fragrant as the jujube cake!

The water town has fertile soil and rich products. Foods from all seasons emerge in an endless stream, such as black rice, green dumplings, vegetables, malantou, sweet wine, etc., each with its own local flavor. Shijia Restaurant, founded during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, is famous for its famous dish "Bafe Feitang". The Qian Sheng Yuan Zao Mud Sesame Cake, which was once listed as a royal dessert in the palace, has now regained its popularity and is sold as far away as Hong Kong and Macao.

For food, there are many restaurants on Jinshan Road, such as Manshan Hongye Hotel, Huantianxidi Hotel, Jiubaiwan Guozhuang, Longshengsheng Hotel, and Meet Food City—there are many, and I personally feel that these are the restaurants. The food is good, but if you think the prices are high, there is a Little Kunshan Restaurant at the junction of Jinshan Road and Huayuan Street, which is more affordable. There are also some snack bars on Huayuan Street, such as Yonghe Soy Milk and Oaks Fast Food. , pizza shop, convenience store, and KFC at the Hong Kong intersection--in short, the most popular restaurants in Mudu are restaurants.