Suzhou Food

China has the four greatest dish departments of Su, Lu, Yue, Chuan, the taste is each not same, the persons call" the east sour, the west hot, the south sweet, the north salty", the dishes of Su belongs to the taste of the south sweet. The characteristics of Su's dishes are to choose to anticipate carefully, do the work fine, depend on material to boil, have differences all the year round, excel to braise, steam, burn, fry on the cooking, lay equal stress on to see to adjust the soup, keep the juice taste. The taste is simple elegance to tend sweet, nuance diapason. The famous Su's type placard dishes have: Songshuguiyu, Qingtangyuchi, Xiangyousanhu, Xiguaji, Muyouzhengji, Taihucuncai Soup, Feicuixiadou, Hehuajijindun etc. The snacks of Suzhou also are known in the world, Mizhidoufugan, Songzitang, Meiguiguazi, the shrimp sauce, the Zaonimabing and the lard New Year pudding etc. are all very popular delicacies, must be tasted.

Deyue Building and Songhe Building are the famous Su's type restaurants. The Old Tea Wine Shop of Suzhou is known with the traditional Su's dishes; Zhuhongxing Nooldes Reserant and Luyang Wonton etc. have beautiful things and low price, they are fit to public consume.

The main delicacies streets of Suzhou have: The Eunuch Lane, Shiquan Street, Xueshi Street, Jiayufang, Phoenix Street, Ganjiang Road and Shilujinmenshangshi Delicacies Street etc.

Beggar's chicken (叫花鸡)

It is rumored that a beggar got a Sanhuang Chicken whose mouth, feet and skin were yellow in the Manchu Dynasty in the Yu Mountain, since had no cookers or adjust to anticipate, couldn't boil the food, hence roasted the food with the native method. Killed the chicken firstly, went to its internal organs, took the hair to draw the mire, took the leaves to become the fire, baked the chicken, waited for the mire stem maturity, knocked to the mud, the chicken hair took off with the mire hull, the ch

Special features dish --- Watermelon Chicken (西瓜鸡)

Regard fatty and delicate hen as principle to anticipate, put the chicken into the watermelon, pour into the chicken soup, and put into the ham slices, bamboo shoot slices, black mushrooms...etc., add the original soup, cover the melon cover, then it can be ascended the table after steaming for several minutes. The Watermelon Chicken has beautiful and subtle fragrance flavor, the soup is pure and the melon is joss-stick, the nourishment is abundant, it is the traditional famous dish of Suzhou.