Suzhou has been called the 'land of milk and honey' since ancient times and Jiangsu cuisine, of which Suzhou cuisine makes up one important part, is one of the eight famous culinary arts in China. Suzhou dishes are praised highly by food connoisseurs from both home and abroad. As part of Huaiyang Cuisine, the Suzhou style cooking is closely related to the local culture and characterized by natural flavor, beautiful presentation, light and palatable taste, and seasonal varieties. The selection of materials has much to do with the water country.
Yummy Local Snacks
Sandeli Snack Restaurant
It mainly operates Suzhou style feature snacks. The mansion's elaborated "fried meat pies" are of thin crust, green onion, yellow bottom, crisp wrapper, fragrant filling and delicious gravy; and together with "crepe skin steamed meat and gravy dumplings", have both been appraised as "Chinese famed snacks" and "Jingsu's famed dim sum". Under its operation are over ten varieties such as light-fermented skin steamed buns, steamed dumplings with the dough gathered at the top ,steamed bean paste stuffed buns and so on.?
Huang Tian-yuan Cake
The centennial Huang Tian-yuan Cake Store on Guanqian Street of Suzhou was once famed for its steamed dumplings, lard cake, etc. From the mid of 
the fifties on, Suzhou pastry has been enriched by the continuously emerging types featuring elegant shape and color and various flavors. Nowadays the annual provision can reach more than a hundred types, some of which even always appear in banquets and enjoy good reputation at home and abroad.
Crunchy sesame candy
Crunchy sesame candy, including mainly crunchy rose-hemp candy, crunchy rose-lard candy, crunchy spiced-salt-lard candy, is the typical Suzhou pastry that is made folding stuffed with steamed powder. Being a speciality of Suzhou, crunchy sesame candy is characterized by its thin rind, exquisite lines, pure honey and softness and could serve both as desserts and as presents.
Suzhou Snack Restaurant
Located in Taijian Lane, the Suzhou Snack Restaurant is affiliated to Deyuelou Restaurant. The garden not only includes all the local famous snacks of Suzhou, but also has a few superfine snacks introduced from other places. In its numerous varieties, the especially famed are seasonal and finely prepared ones. Among its feature snacks are wonton, chicken, duck blood soup, etc.
Address: 19 Taijian Lane, Guanqian Street
Telephone: (0512)65237603
Palatable Main Dish
Whitebait Soup
Whitebait Soup rose into lasting fame. Besides, the fish of whitebait, white belly and leaden streaky back, can bubble up floating like a ball. Hence the name "streaky fish" or "bubble fish". It is a speciality of Suzhou. The fish characterized by its tender flesh, appears on the market every fall. The light delicious soup is made up of liver and flesh. Seasoned with ham, bamboo slice and green vegetable leaves, the fleshy liver tastes savory and attracts countless guests.
Watermelon Chicken
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.
Baizhiyuancai
Yuan is a terrapin or turtle in fact. Its nourishment composition of protein, fat, sugar, vitamin etc. are very abundant, most fatty and strengthen with the Caihua turtle of the spring and the laurel blossom turtle of the autumn. So the persons of Suzhou have the custom of eating Baizhiyuancai and Qingdun turtle to nourish to keep the body in the spring and autumn. It is to cook turtle to cut into a piece of form, assist to adjust to anticipate with the yams, bamboo shoots, black mushrooms, spring onion gingers, salt, wine, etc., and after cooking the marinade is brightness, dense and thick, the taste is salty to take sweet. It is the traditional famous dish of Suzhou.
Editor's words:
Coming to Suzhou, sweet food is their favorite taste, which has been a featured signboard. However, Diabetic patients must pay great attention to it. But on the other hand, as a famous city of cuisine, could it be said that you cannot find suitable food?
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