Wuxi Cuisine

Wuxi Cuisine is among the top 14 cuisine styles in China. Its flavor is light and sweet, focusing on seasonal ingredients. Seafood such as shrimp, crab, eel, fish and other lake products is an important ingredient and is generally cooked simply to enhance the natural taste and to retain the original flavor. Besides seafood, all kinds of vegetables are fresh and frequently used. Now the three aspects of Wuxi Cuisine - Wuxi dishes, boat dishes and Capital dishes are flourishing. Among its famous dishes are Wuxi Spareribs, Liangxi Crisp Eel, stewed bean curd with shrimp and ginger sauce, walnut chicken balls, fried glutinous rice with shrimps, braised pork in fermented bean-curd sauce and five-spiced chicken leg. Wuxi small steamed bun, Almond Dumpling and Wonton are well-known refreshments.

Wuxi Sweet and Salty Spare Ribs Wuxi Spare Ribs is the most popular local dish and is the specialty to look out for people come to Wuxi. It features the common eastern technique of "Red cooks” in a stock of rice wine and soy sauce and spiced with ginger, anise, cloves and black peppercorns and has unique red-sweet sauce on the top in order to give rich taste.

Bean Curd in Casserole This is a home-style dish but cooked with special cooking utensil-Casserole. Put bean curd and other vegetables into the Casserole together with chicken soup and sesame oil, then bring to the boil, simmer. When it's done, the bean curd is white and soft, the dish taste fresh and has rich nutrition.

Wuxi Xiaolong-Mantou Wuxi Xiaolong-Mantou, also called Wuxi Small Dumpling, is a traditional famous snack in Wuxi. It has over 100-year history. It is widely welcome in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou. It selects the high-level flour, and delicate materials and resources. It is steamed and boiled in small-size ware called Xiaolong, and it is strongly featured of the southern-style taste. It won’t be broken when picked up with chopsticks, and stuffing won’t be leaked when it is turned over. It is fresh and tasty. During the time of autumn and winter, the boiled crab extract is added into the steamed bread, and this is the noted Crab Powder Steamed Bread.

This is not only for extempore eating but also much too proper for presenting friends as gift.

Niurou Xianfen Niurou Xianfen is one of the characteristic local foods of Wuxi. The making methods: firstly the beef should be sliced into pieces, and then add the amylum, yellow wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate. After the water in boiler is boiling, put in the beef slices firstly and then cover the lid for a minute, and then add the Silk noodles, which was initially marinated by boiling water. All these are done; the lid should be covered for around 5 minutes, and sprinkle the refined salt and monosodium glutamate into the food. You just need to waiting for several seconds, and then put the food into the bowl and sprinkle sesame oil. This is a tasty food that deserved to savor.

Three - Delicacy Wonton Three-Delicacy Wonton is one of famous eating in Wuxi and largely welcomed by civilians in Wuxi. The stuffing is generally comprised of three delicacies: fresh meat, preserved Sichuan pickle and dried freshwater shrimp. The auxiliary materials are bone-soup, sliced bean curd and sliced egg skin.

Traditionally, Wonton was sold by people shouldering the cooking wares. The sellers went everywhere the people needed. It is featured of strong characteristics of southern area of Yangtze River. This moving noshery was simply comprised of a boiler and a small workshop. The one is camp stove, sauces, the other for bowl, spoon and small wood stool. It was the movable fast-food shop at that time. The wonton was a good memory of that time. Nowadays it is the best selection for young generation. They are on the way of their works, for releasing the hunger, they often buy some bowls of wonton.