What are the special snacks in Wuxi?

Wuxi steamed bread, a traditional name in Wuxi, has a history of one hundred years. Choose the best flour, carefully select the ingredients and steam them in a small cage, which has a southern flavor. It has the characteristics of not breaking the skin when picked, not leaking the bottom when turned over, full of salt water when sucked, fresh but not greasy. Steamed bread has thin skin and many fillings, and it tastes tender and fragrant. In autumn and winter, boiled crab yellow oil is added to the stuffing, which is the famous "crab powder cage", which tastes delicious.

Sam sun wonton

Sanxian wonton originated from the folk in Dongting Township, Wuxi County, and gradually developed into a traditional famous spot in Wuxi. Wonton is made of fresh meat, Kaiyang and mustard tuber, so it is called "three fresh". It is served with meat and bone soup, dried bean curd and shredded egg skin as seasoning. Sanxian wonton is the most popular snack in Wuxi because of its thin skin, rich stuffing and fresh soup.

dried bean curd

Dried bean curd, a traditional snack in Wuxi. Cut the old tofu into 1cm thick with a knife, fry them in an oil pan until golden brown, put them in a bowl, cut them with scissors, and pour in cooked soy sauce, sweet noodle sauce, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, sugar and other seasonings to serve. This snack has an attractive aroma, crisp outside and tender inside, and is deeply loved by the public.

Radish meat pie

Radish cake is a snack with Wuxi flavor. Its preparation method is: cleaning radish, shredding, pickling with a little salt, squeezing out water, adding chopped green onion and mixing well. In addition, flour and cold water are mixed into a slurry lake shape, and then a round mold spoon is made of white lead skin. Coat the bottom layer with starch paste, add shredded radish, cover with batter, fry in oil pan until golden brown, and demould. It tastes delicious.

Fermented rice wine dumplings

Tangyuan has a history of one hundred years in Wuxi. It is made by mixing white glutinous rice flour with hot water, toughening it, cutting it into small squares, and rolling it into a small circle with a flat screen, which is about the size of cottonseed. In addition, mash the wine and sugar into a bowl, and put the cooked jiaozi and soup into a bowl. Fermented dumplings are soft, glutinous and sweet, and are delicious snacks for the elderly.

Four-color sweet glutinous dumplings

Four-color glutinous rice balls are the traditional names of Wuxi. It selects 70% white peony and 30% white stalks, washes them with clear water, immerses them in water, grinds them into gouache with water, puts them into a cloth bag, removes water with stones, rubs them evenly, and then wraps them with fillings such as fresh meat, vegetable oil, sesame seeds and bean paste. When eating, it can be boiled in boiling water, soft, tough and smooth, and the filling is fresh and clean.

Beef shredded powder

Beef noodles are also a special snack in Wuxi. Slice beef, add starch, yellow wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and mix well. When the water in the pot boils, first put the beef slices, cover the pot and roll them a little, then add the vermicelli cooked with boiling water, cover the pot and cook for about five minutes, then add the refined salt and monosodium glutamate to the pot, then boil it, put it in a soup bowl and sprinkle with sesame oil.

Tangtailang

Sugar taro, the traditional name of Wuxi. Founded in 1858, the taro seeds of local first-class taro are peeled, washed, put in alkali, burned to purplish red, then stewed with fire, added with red pond and osmanthus, and cooked. It has the characteristics of crisp taro, bright red color, fresh and clean soup and overflowing fragrance, and is a seasonal snack suitable for all ages.

Yulan cake

It was created by Ji Sun Cake Group Store in Wuxi on 1850, and it was named because it coincided with the blooming season of Magnolia. This kind of cake is made of glutinous rice flour and boiled water, kneaded and picked into small pieces, and made into a cake blank, which is filled with vegetable lard, bean paste, fresh meat, roses, sesame seeds and so on. Deep-fried in a pan, golden yellow, crispy skin, soft and waxy inner shell, sweet and salty, and attractive fragrance.

tofu?pudding

Tofu flower is a traditional snack in Wuxi. It makes tofu flowers in a vat, sells them and bakes them. They are tender and hot. Add cooked soy sauce, chopped green onion, laver, shrimp skin, mustard tuber powder, sugar, sesame oil and other condiments when eating, and become a Wuxi snack suitable for all ages.

Spotted dick

Plum blossom cake, Wuxi flavor snack. It is made by mixing the superior flour, yeast powder and water into paste, injecting it into a hot plum blossom mold, and filling it with various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard and roses. Then pour in the batter, sprinkle with white sugar and shredded red and green melons, cover with a hot iron plate and bake on a cake mold. This kind of cake is golden yellow and looks like plum blossom. It is soft and delicious and suitable for all ages.

Silver silk noodles

Silver silk noodles are one of the famous spots in Wuxi. It uses refined white powder, adds eggs, mixes them, rolls them into noodles, and hangs soup with meat bones and chicken. Silver silk is as white as snow, as thin as a string, and the soup is clear and delicious, smooth and tender, which is a favorite snack for customers inside and outside the city.

Square cake

Square cakes are very famous in Wuxi. 1943 Huzhou Dafang cake was transformed by Wang Yuqing, the owner of Liufangzhai in Chong'an Temple. The square cake is made of a special square wooden template, and the cake powder is concave after sieving. Add fresh meat, bean paste, vegetable lard and other fillings, then sieve a layer of cake powder, scrape it flat, cut it into pieces with a knife, and steam it in a cage with high fire. The cake is white, soft and full of stuffing, with a strong flavor in the south of the Yangtze River.

spring roll

Spring rolls are a seasonal snack in Wuxi. Knead dough with white flour, a little water and salt, spread it out in a pan and bake it into a round skin, then spread the prepared stuffing (minced meat, bean paste and vegetable lard) on the skin, fold both ends in half, roll it up and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. Spring rolls are thin and crisp, soft and fragrant, and have a unique flavor. They are the best seasonal products in spring. An Ocean Eating Chong'an Temple Chong'an Temple is the "city center" in old Wuxi's mind, which is both a cultural center and a commercial center. To say that it is a business center, the most obvious representation is reflected in eating, especially the prosperity of snacks, which reflects the developed degree of traditional business culture.

During the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, there were two fires in Chong'an Temple, and most monasteries were burned down. In the first year of Guangxu ({1874), the county magistrate Liao Lun built the "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Pavilion" here. The memorial tablet of "Long live the emperor today" is enshrined in the pavilion. Folk artists selling fists, pears, butterscotch, tan quan and juggling appeared in the open space one after another, attracting passers-by from urban and rural areas to watch, and many snacks and food stores came into being. In the1930s, Chong'an Temple snacks were a great success. 193565438+1On October 23rd, Tin Newspaper published a supplement entitled "Special Snacks". In the article "Eating in the Temple", Xing introduced the people in Chong'an Temple and Shanghai, the mysterious temples in the French Concession, Suzhou, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, the overpass in Beiping, the three ports in Tianjin and Jinan.

In the fierce competition, many companies have established their own characteristics. At that time, there were at least 22 famous stalls: Gong Changshan's eight-treasure rice, lotus seed soup, lotus root starch and mung bean soup; Sun Jiquan's oily tofu, vermicelli, blood soup and tofu balls; Zhong Liangqing's spiced ribs, fried squid and steamed snow cakes; Youtongfu's fermented cotton balls and glutinous rice balls; Ding Dugen's beef soup, beef noodle soup and cold noodles; Ding Aliu's chicken sausage noodle soup. Qiang Cake and Gaozhuang Steamed Bread in Li Zhi, Three Girls' Beef, Sweet Porridge, Wang Amei's Sugar Roasted Taro, Arong's Ningbo Tangtuan, Big Root Tofu, Summer Tofu Brain, Yin's Clear Oil Dried Tofu, Li's Cooked Noodle Stand, Yao's Fried Steamed Steamed Bread, Yao Jinchang's Fried Fried Bread, Zhu Gongxing's Steamed Steamed Steamed Bread, and Big Three Yuan Rice Porridge.

Mr. Sun Yunnian, an old newspaper reporter, published an article "Chong'an Temple Snacks Cut the Ribbon" in the supplement of that issue of Snacks Special Issue. He described:

"Chong'an Temple in the city, almost all to the food stalls, accounting for the whole scene, every year, if you pass by there, in the downwind air, there will be a sweet and sour fragrance, jump into my nostrils, make people salivate! From the outside, food stalls in Chong'an Temple can be seen everywhere. Inside, they have their own stage, and no one can invade the territory. If many food stalls keep their own order, a world war will never break out. Strolling into this snack-filled Chong'an Temple, I saw many sweet, salty, sour and spicy foods. Which one did I eat? At that time, there was a sense of dilemma! Some people even eat sweet first, then salty, so delicious that they can eat a Chong'an Temple. "

According to the survey of Xibao, there were 29 stalls in Chong'an Temple at that time, namely, sweet porridge stall, dumpling stall 1, beef soup stall 2, spiced sparerib stall 1, squid stall 1, chicken and duck blood soup stall 1, bean curd noodle stall 4, plum blossom cake stall 1, and babao. Fermented jiaozi 1 stall; Curry chicken and duck soup 1 file, tofu sauce 1 file, steamed bread 1 file, venetian knot 2 file, smoked fat sausage 1 file, and meat soup tofu flower 5 file. There are many shops in the city. In order to attract business, all vendors regard customers as their parents. No matter how big or small the business is, they always greet each other with smiles and send snacks to the bathroom of the teahouse for the convenience of the guests. The night market is usually when the library is closed and the theater is closed at night. There should be "other signs" between sharing and sharing, and even "fighting" to crush other families. For example, Yao Jinchang and Xu Fugen, two cake stalls, today you are older than me, and tomorrow I will make them bigger and make them quite big. The competition between the big three-yuan porridge stall and the new porridge shop is more prominent, and the big three-yuan porridge eventually rises with the rice. Send porridge to drum up business. Forced the newborn porridge stall to collapse. According to the seasons and customs, stall owners often change their business varieties. Some stall owners went to Suzhou and Shanghai to try new tricks to make Chong'an Temple snacks last forever. Around Chong'an Temple at that time, there were Wang Wonton Restaurant, Caigenxiang Noodle Restaurant, Bao Xichu, Gao Shunxing Noodle Restaurant, Wanhualou, Liufangzhai Tea Restaurant, Yingbin Building, Juleyuan, Leheyuan and other restaurants, Shengquan Garden, Sanwanchang, Tingsongyuan and Wang Hexuan. There are many shops in the whole Chong 'an Temple area: plus wandering around the rivers and lakes. There must be a way to set up a stall to sell snacks here. Only people who know the district office can get the certificate and take care of it at ordinary times. On holidays, we should also give gifts and money to be "filial". If you offend the person in charge or the local ruffians, you will be unstable. Generally, stall owners run their own food stalls. The children helped to do it. Although the business is good, the cost is short and the profit is thin, which is difficult to maintain. Because some stalls rely on usury, they often have to make ends meet and pay interest every month.

In the early days of liberation, due to the government's "transformation" of restaurants, some restaurants closed and some people came out to set up stalls to make a living. Snacks in Chong'an Temple have also increased, with noodle restaurants alone reaching as many as 12. Later, a cooperative store was set up in the food stall. By 1958, the Chong'an Temple food market was upgraded to a state-owned non-staple food mall, and the snacks were also put into the mall.