Suzhou is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, rich in products, the development of a very distinctive Su-style dishes, Su-style brine dishes, Su-style noodles, Su-style pastries, Su-style candy, Su-style preserves, Suzhou snacks, Suzhou cake dumplings and other cuisines, the old brand is countless, today Xiaobian will take you to visit Suzhou's food time-honored brands, see what suits your taste!
1. Su Bang Restaurant:
【Songhe Tower】
The most famous existence of Su-style restaurants, founded in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, was originally a noodle restaurant, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, it began to operate Su Bang cuisine, becoming the leader of Su Bang restaurants, and even often used as an image representative of Su Bang cuisine. Songhe Tower's most famous dish is squirrel mandarin fish, but also the proud work of Su Bang cuisine, carefully cooked with fresh mandarin fish, fried by hanging powder, the fish meat is fluffy and crispy, the juice is sweet and sour, and it is called color, aroma, shape and taste.
【New Jufeng】
Xinjufeng was founded in the late Qing Dynasty, initially called Jufeng Garden, the proud work is the mother oil boat duck, and later after the shareholders separated, it was renamed Xinjufeng, specializing in Subang dishes. In addition to the mother oil boat duck and the rotten pond slices, the representative work of his family is to remove the head and bone of the small pond fish, slice it into two pieces and burn it, the bad smell is fragrant, the color is white, the marinade is tightly wrapped, and the fish fillets are tender. Xianglong Mandarin Fish is based on the innovation of squirrel mandarin fish.
【Deyue Building】
DeyueLou was founded in the Ming Jiajing period, the oldest history, and more well-known to the Chinese people because of a classic comedy "Little DeyueLou" in the 1980s. Deyue Lou is mainly based on Su-style vegetable boats, paying great attention to cooking methods, clearing hands to peel shrimp light and elegant, the entrance is elastic; Deyue children's chicken, bone crispy meat rotten, full of aroma; honey juice fire party, ham crisp, sweet entrance, salty aftertaste.
【Shijia Hotel】
In Suzhou Mudu Ancient Town Shijia Hotel, there are also more than 200 years of history, mentioned this shop, mainly his family has a very famous catfish lung soup, the so-called catfish lung soup, in fact, is "spot lung soup", using the liver of spotted fish, because the Kuomintang elder Yu Youren misheard the wrong question, so changed the name of the catfish lung soup, many people come to the Shijia Hotel is running to the catfish lung soup.
1. Su-style noodle restaurant:
【Zhu Hongxing】
The famous writer Lu Wenfu described in detail in the novel "Foodie" that Zhu Ziye got up early to eat head soup noodles, and he must go to Zhu Hongxing to eat this head soup noodles. Su-style noodles pay the most attention to noodle soup and toppings, the noodles themselves are in the second place, one of the noodle soup is the use of chicken, pork ribs, eel bones and other hanging out of the broth, the head soup noodles are clear as water, not mixed with flour "Hun", the most delicious, no wonder Zhu Ziye rushed to eat a bowl of head soup noodles in the morning.
There are many noodle restaurants in Suzhou, Zhu Hongxing is one of the representatives, Zhu Hongxing has the famous fat but not greasy, crisp and not rotten signature stewed meat noodles, as well as frozen chicken noodles that are extremely difficult to see elsewhere, chicken crisp and smooth, "chicken jelly" crystal clear, very eye-catching.
【YuxingJi】
As a century-old noodle restaurant, Yuxingji stores all the memories of the old Suzhou people's pasta. His family's most famous is three shrimp noodles, only before and after the Dragon Boat Festival every year, for more than a month to sell, shrimp, shrimp brain stained with shrimp seeds, bright color, fragrant, mixed to the noodles fresh eyebrows. There are also two sides of yellow, the production process is complicated, need to be boiled first and then fried, it is difficult to eat elsewhere, and the noodles are crispy to eat.
Of course, the treasure of the town store is still "bald butter noodles", foodies mostly know that the so-called bald butter is lard fried crab paste crab yellow, but also only hairy crab market when there is a unique delicacy, do not miss.
【Delicious Fast】
The fame is not very large, but it is also a century-old shop, which is deeply loved by many old Suzhou. His family's pop-up eel noodles and pop-up fish noodles are one of the best in Suzhou. Delicious popped eel noodles, eels are sweet and slightly tough, not as crisp as other eels in other places. The skin of the fried fish noodles is fried crispy, and the fish is tender and sweet, which is deeply loved by gourmets.
【Guan Revitalization】
The revitalization of the century-old shop can be said to be one of the representatives of the Su-style noodle restaurant, and his noodles have three major characteristics, one is that the raw noodles use tough thin noodles; the second is that the noodles are clear and smooth and catchy; the third is that the noodle soup is made with the original juice of stewed meat soup, which is fresh and delicious. In addition to noodles and soups, Guan Zhenxing's toppings are also varied, not only delicious in taste, but also in a variety that cannot be compared with other noodle restaurants.
Others like Tong Dexing, Qionglinge, Lu Changxing, etc. can only be counted as small characters, but they also have their own housekeeping skills and have their own fans, so I will not elaborate on them here.
3. Su-style pastries:
【Huang Tianyuan】
Huang Tianyuan Cake Dumpling Shop was founded in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, with a long history, the most distinctive is that there are seasonal pastries launched throughout the year, such as: sugar rice cake, lard rice cake and cake dumplings on the first day of the first month, sugar soup dumplings on the fifteenth day of the first month, fried rice cakes in the first two days of February, Green dumplings in the Qingming Festival in March, Shenxian cakes on april 14, various colors of rice dumplings on the first five days of May, mung bean cakes, mint cakes and rice maple cakes in June, cowpea cakes on July 15, sugar potatoes, sugar oil potatoes, and boiled root on August 15. Chongyang cake is served on the ninth day of September, pumpkin dumplings are served in October, winter solstice dumplings are served during the winter solstice festival in November, and various rice cakes are served in December. It is worth mentioning that Huang Tianyuan not only makes pastries, but also his family's fried meat and shrimp noodles are also quite distinctive.
【Cai Zhi Zhai】
Caizhi Zhai was founded in the Qing Tongzhi period, focusing on various types of pine nut fudge, wumei cake, nine-made tangerine peel, agarwood olives and so on. Exquisite selection of materials, fine processing, rich nutrition, sweet and delicious, pine nut rice dumpling sugar, sesame thin skin, pine nut jujube paste hemp cake and Su-style plum and other Suzhou specialties have long become household names.
【Ye Shuhe】
Ye Shouhe was founded in the Qing Guangxu years, the production of pastries, stir-fried goods, game, candy, integrated with the characteristics of Ningbo pastry, brand-name products are: small square cake, cloud cake, four-color slice cake (rose, almond, pine flower, moss), baby milk cake and so on.
【Daoxiang Village】
There is a Daoxiang Village in Beijing, and there is also a Daoxiang Village in Suzhou, and the Daoxiang Village in Beijing can be said to have been established under the influence of Daoxiang Village in Suzhou. Suzhou Daoxiang Village was founded in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Qianlong Nan toured Suzhou, a local pastry shop in Suzhou, because the Qingshui rose mooncake and pine nut jujube mud and linen cake were favored by the Qianlong Emperor, Qianlong still tasted its fragrance after returning to the capital, and then not only sent special people to come to purchase it, but also personally gave the three words "Daoxiang Village". In the early years of the Republic of China, the three words "Daoxiang Village" were all the rage, and pastry shops named Daoxiang Village were developed in dozens of cities in the north and continue to this day.
【Dried Shengyuan】
Qianshengyuan was founded in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the original name of the store was "Fei Cuitai", which was famous at home and abroad for producing pine nut jujube mud and linen cakes, and was listed as a royal court snack. In the seventh year of Qing Guangxu, the name of the shop was changed to "Qianshengyuan", and the Qianshengyuan hemp cake was known for its shape like a full moon, golden color, sweet entrance, sweet but not greasy, fragrant but not scorched, oil but not overflowing, crisp and delicious.
Fourth, Su-style marinated meat
【Lu Manuscript Recommendation】
Lu Was originally founded in the Kangxi Dynasty as a butcher shop, and one day a beggar came to the butcher shop with a broken manuscript (straw mat) on his back. The boss saw his pity and let him spend the night. In the early morning of the next day, the beggar did not say goodbye, leaving only a roll of broken grass mats, and the guy stuffed it into the stove to roast the meat, who knew that the cooked meat was so fragrant that it was changed to "Lu Wenxian". Lu Wen recommended the most famous is the seasonal sauce meat, sauce meat color such as red dates, rotten meat crisp, in the mouth and melt, sweet and fresh, fat but not greasy, but also one of the gourmand Zhu Ziye's favorite, in addition to the sauce meat sauce duck is also a must, Lu Wen recommended sauce duck, Du Sanzhen's meat, this is Suzhou people are difficult to give up the delicious.
【Du Sanzhen】
Du Sanzhen, formerly known as Lao Sanzhen, was founded in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and is famous for its cooked food varieties such as rotten meat, sauce duck, pork head meat, sauce meat, etc., which is mouth-watering and is the first choice for many Suzhou citizens to improve their food and entertain relatives and friends. In the 90s of the last century, due to various reasons, Du Sanzhen went out of business, and in 2009, with the efforts of Suzhou people, Du Sanzhen opened a new business, gradually restored the past bad and sauce technology, and regained people's love.