Food near Suzhou Gardens: Eight Must-Taste Foods

Friends who like to travel should know that when visiting a place, you can't miss the local food, especially Suzhou's distinctive Subang delicious food. Now that I'm in Suzhou, I always feel something is missing if I don't taste it. So what's delicious? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao!

1, collecting mutton

Suzhou people have the tradition of eating mutton in autumn and winter. Mutton is very good, and the most famous one is mutton collected from books. The highlight is that mutton is stewed in cedar barrels, and the stewed mutton is tender and tasteless.

If you are visiting Suzhou at this time, you'd better find a mutton restaurant with books and drink a bowl of hot mutton soup or a bowl of mutton instant noodles. In the cold season, eating a bowl of hot mutton soup makes people feel comfortable. And don't worry about not finding it, because there are all the streets and alleys in Suzhou, which shows how much Suzhou people love this kind of food.

2. oily eel sauce

This is a traditional famous dish with Jiangnan characteristics, and it is a specialty of Suzhou people. So this dish is available in both Grand Hotel and Xiao Fei Restaurant, and the price is both expensive and affordable.

Fried eel paste is made from fresh eel. Cut the eel slaughtered that day, add seasoning, stir-fry, thicken, serve, pour hot oil, and then the dish will sizzle, so this is also the origin of the word burning oil. It is characterized by delicious eel meat, oily but not greasy, fresh and delicious.

In fact, Shanghainese in Zhejiang like this dish and are good at cooking. There are local dishes and Hangzhou dishes, but Suzhou is the most famous. Now, this dish can be eaten all year round, but when it comes to seasons, it is best around the Dragon Boat Festival.

3, clam cauliflower

Camellia chrysantha, scientific name "alfalfa", is also called grass head here. This is a kind of wild vegetable that people living in the south of the Yangtze River like best, and it is often eaten in spring. With meat dishes, it tastes more delicious.

For example, Shanghainese like to stir-fry with pig's large intestine, which has become a famous local vegetable and grass circle, while Suzhou people like to stir-fry with clam meat and add wine. The rich bouquet stimulated the delicate flavor of mussel meat and cauliflower, and became the famous Subang cuisine "mussel cauliflower".

This is a famous local seasonal dish in Suzhou. If you visit Jiangnan in spring, don't forget to order this dish and try it.

4. Cherry meat

Cherry meat is also a famous traditional dish. It is characterized by red and bright color, salty and sweet, fat but not greasy, and it melts at the entrance. The practice of cherry meat is to change the knife on the whole square meat, and the replaced small square is as big as a cherry. Then use Redmi to turn its color and marinade into red, and burn the meat until it is crisp and rotten.

The stew is delicious, without greasy fat. When you are hungry, order a cherry meat with a bowl of white rice, which is a perfect match.

5. Mother tanker duck

This famous Suzhou-Wuxi dish is most suitable for autumn and winter. The biggest feature of this dish is its tender meat, crisp but not broken, rich flavor and unique flavor. If you come to Suzhou and eat out at this time, don't forget to order this dish.

Mother oil, a particularly delicious soy sauce, is unique to Jiangnan. This soy sauce is brown and black in color, rich in fragrance, moderate in saltiness and sweetness, mild in taste and delicious.

As we all know, Jiangnan area belongs to water system. Many people make a living by fishing, and also put their homes and businesses on boats. This dish originated from the shipowner. The practice is to put the whole duck into the mud pot and simmer. The original duck soup made in this way is crispy, delicious and full of flavor. Because of its delicious taste, it is widely circulated by diners and becomes a famous dish in Suzhou.

6._ Tang Fei

The famous Suzhou dish "Fu Fei Soup" has a history of more than 300 years and is an authentic Suzhou dish that gourmets can't miss. The biggest feature of this dish is that there is little seasoning, which preserves the original flavor of the ingredients to the greatest extent, such as tender liver of fish, tender fish, milky white fish soup, delicious taste and no fishy smell.

Pufei soup tastes very particular, and it is also called "cold liver and hot soup". There are four steps, called "setting, rewarding, tasting, tasting". When the liver cools, you can see cod liver oil oozing from it. After standing for one minute, put it in the mouth to dissolve. Then, have a bite of fish soup, yo.

7. Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish

This is a famous Subang dish, which is characterized by sweet taste, crisp meat and beautiful shape. Using mandarin fish as raw material, boneless, diced, fried, squirrel-shaped, and then poured with sweet and sour sauce. After the fish is fried, its head opens and its tail tilts slightly, looking like a squirrel.

This dish is very famous, and it is not difficult for a chef to cook it. So now Suzhou is full of streets. If you are not picky about this dish, you can eat it in any restaurant. If you are very particular, go to a famous restaurant in Suzhou or Songhelou and order this dish. Or if you have local friends in Suzhou, you can ask them.

8. Carassius auratus

Snail shrimp is a traditional famous dish in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to Suzhou cuisine. The practice is a bit extravagant, mainly to oil the peeled shrimps, put them in the pot again, and stir-fry them for the second time with the soaked Biluochun tea water. Tea flavor is blended into shrimp, so that this dish can taste the fresh flavor of shrimp as soon as it is eaten. The tea flavor is fresh, the taste is fresh and refreshing, and the aftertaste is endless.

I personally suggest that you'd better try this dish in a standard hotel or an old Suzhou hotel. Although it is available in almost every hotel, it can be cooked. However, if you want to eat authentic Robbie shrimp, you'd better go to the grand hotel, because only the grand hotel will cook this dish in strict accordance with the process and preferred ingredients.