[ Fengmen Hengjie ]
In the minds of many Suzhou people, Fengmen Hengjie is synonymous with "fireworks" and "taste of life". This 700-meter-long old street is the favorite vegetable market in old Suzhou and is lively all year round.
With the gradual "recovery" of Sioux City, Fengmen Hengjie has also resumed the bustling scene of the past when people were full of people and people came and went. These days, Suzhou has entered the spring, it is time to accompany the warm spring light, leisurely spring breeze, revisit The Gate Street, looking for those familiar old tastes!
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Long time no see, that sweet green dough!
In the spring, many people who walked across the street came for the sake of the green group. This kind of seasonal snack unique to Jiangnan, with the fragrance of spring grass, soft and sticky, sweet and sweet, has captured the hearts of countless diners.
The shops selling Qingtuan on Hengjie Street, mainly Shen Ji Qingtuan and Zhou Ji Qingtuan, the business is quite good, especially Shen Ji Qingtuan, which has become a "net red" level food shop in Suzhou, always opening shops on time on the third day of the first lunar month every year, bringing the first green dumplings of the Lunar New Year to citizens and tourists.
A small green dough, seemingly simple, but the Production Process is exquisite. Harvest fresh pulp wheat grass or wormwood, mash the grass to produce juice, and powder to fill, basket steaming through, out of the basket brush oil... In this way, we can firmly lock in the smell of grass and make this wonderful taste exclusive to spring.
The most traditional Su-style dough is stuffed with bean paste or sesame seeds. Today, while adhering to the tradition, the Qingtuan shop on Hengjie Street has also launched many innovative flavors of Qingtuan: Wuren Qingtuan, Egg Yolk Meat Pine Green Dough, Fresh Meat QingTuan, Dried Vegetable Head Minced Meat Qingtuan, and even Chocolate Qingtuan! These various kinds of green dough filling, which one do you most want to try? (For foodie i, of course, every one)
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Miss you, that crispy popcorn!
For a while, I didn't come to Hengjie, and the old stall next to the Red Plate Bridge was still a Su-style delicacy that had to be eaten in line.
Suzhou people all year round can not be separated from that crisp and fragrant popcorn, both as a cold cut, but also as a face topping, every New Year's Festival, but also a must-have to eat like this, please a "more than every year" good mouth.
To make fried fish, it is usually made of large blue fish as raw material, which is fresh and fresh. The fillets are thick and evenly opened, fried golden and attractive, and the meat is firm and firm, the outside is crisp and tender, with a salty and slightly sweet marinade, the more you eat, the more energetic you are.
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Gusu flavor snacks, the most hungry!
Fengmen Hengjie is a veritable food street. Some people come for the Youth League, some people come for the popping fish, and many people come for all kinds of Gusu-style snacks.
These unassuming snack bars, relying on their respective "skills" to take root in Hengjie for many years, the same good taste and affordable prices, is the way of these snack bar owners.
Flatbread fritters are the standard for many Suzhou people's breakfast, and the freshly baked flatbread is still a little hot, but it can't resist the aroma of sesame and green onion oil, and I am anxious to take a bite, full of crispy aroma.
Raw fried steamed buns, on one side is a thin dough skin, on the other side is a fried caramelized bottom, a light bite, the meat filling is full, the soup is rich, passers-by always have to pack one or two guests to take home.
The oil dumplings are also a must for Gusu snacks, fried golden glutinous rice dumplings, crispy on the outside and sticky on the inside, fragrant and spleeny, and the fresh meat filling inside with fresh and sweet juice, must be eaten while hot to eat.
There are also rice dumplings, cake balls, soup dumplings, wontons... These familiar old tastes always touch the taste buds of Suzhou people from time to time. I didn't eat it for a while, and I missed it very much.
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Fresh spring season, be sure to buy some to try!
Spring is a season that is particularly "delicious", and one of the reasons is that in this season of all things, fresh seasonal ingredients are particularly abundant. These seasonal good things that are "not eaten from time to time" can be found in Fengmen Hengjie.
In terms of aquatic products, snails, mandarin fish, river prawns, river mussels, etc., all come out of time and are extremely fresh. With these fresh ingredients, seasonal home-cooked dishes such as fried snails, steamed mandarin fish, bi snail shrimp, and river mussel tofu soup have been successful for a long time.
In terms of seasonal vegetables, the popular combination "seven heads and one brain" is particularly respected. Goji berry head, maran head, cabbage head, toon head, alfalfa head, pea head, small garlic head plus chrysanthemum brain, buy it back and simply stir-fry, each of which is a unique and fresh taste.
Next, Suzhou people can also expect crisp and tender spring shoots, green vegetable baskets, and locally produced broad beans... Eat this delicious belly, this spring, enough!
A short Fengmen Street condenses the taste of the world and also shows the customs and customs of Sioux City. Let's take a walk around Fengmen Hengjie! This street will make you love Suzhou and life more.
Fengmen Hengjie
Address: Gusu District Fengmen Heng Street
Transportation: Take Suzhou Rail Transit Line 5 to "Zhuhuiqiao" Station, walk about 500 meters north
Recommended tour time: 7:00-9:00