What are the specialties and delicacies in Huzhou?
If you don't want to run around looking for breakfast, I suggest you come to Wu Tong Road (just navigate and search Wu Tong Road 3 1). There are several breakfast shops on the street, covering most of Huzhou's special breakfasts that I think are worth eating. People who come to buy breakfast include old men in vests and fashionable young people. This is the most typical morning appearance in Huzhou.
Xinshi tea cake
Xinshi is a town in Huzhou, and tea cakes are actually meat pies. At that time, vendors often took it to tea houses to sell, so they got the name.
The freshly steamed tea cake is extremely soft and glutinous, and the meat is full and juicy. It tastes grainy, but it doesn't stick to teeth. The layer soaked in gravy is especially delicious.
Lardy cake
Lard cake is divided into sweet and salty flavors. Red is sweet. The boss said the color was dyed with wild vegetable juice. The taste of lard cake is smoother than tea cake. You can buy a cake alone or choose fried dough sticks with roots.
By the way, in Huzhou, fried dough sticks and baked wheat cakes are officially matched.
Snow jiaozi/Meat jiaozi
There are two kinds of snow dumplings in Huzhou. One is the "Linghu Snow Dumpling" for making tea, which is so crisp that every bite loses slag, but you can't buy it until the weather is cold.
The other is dumplings dipped in icing for breakfast, which is similar to the sugar cakes sold by Xinfeng snacks in Hangzhou. As the name implies, meat dumplings have meat inside, crispy outside and fresh inside, so eating one is not enough.
Songmao baozi stuffed with juicy pork
Songmao steamed stuffed bun comes from Daixi, a small town in Huzhou. When steaming, relax the needle below, so that the fragrance of trees can also be steamed into the dough.
Soup buns are not called because there is soup in them, but because when you eat them, you have to make a bowl of bone soup sprinkled with chopped green onion, soak them in it, and the fluffy dough will be full of soup.
This soup dumpling shop on Wu Tong Road doesn't need pine needles to steam. If you have high taste, you can go to Renji Songmao on Longwangshan Road. Personally, I think its meat stuffing is fresher and the soup is more delicious.
Finally, I want to say that one is zhengyi breakfast. From snacks to big shops, only a few have kept their original appearance. This store has been open for 10 years, and it has not been renovated or upgraded at all, but the business is still good.
The store mainly sells glutinous rice, 1.5 yuan, and the girls are almost 2 yuan. There are dried tofu, lard residue and carrots in it. The most authentic way to eat is to wrap a fried dough stick.
No matter what kind of breakfast is mentioned above, you can also have a bowl of bean curd or soybean milk, and you can choose both sweet and salty flavors. For breakfast, you can just find a shop under the old community, which is usually delicious.
A bowl of noodles or wonton is recommended for lunch, which is the soul of Huzhou cuisine.
The delicious noodle restaurant in Huzhou is mainly Changxing Regan Noodles. People who can eat don't look at the menu when they enter the store. First, they shouted to the boss, "Come into the bowl and pick it up." When the noodles are ready, the boss will ask you to go to the counter and you will see what toppings are available today. You can add whatever you want, and the top is not capped.
The essence of dried noodles is sauce, not too dry or too oily. Salinity and consistency should be moderate, so that noodles can be hung evenly and the entrance can be attractive.
Recommend four noodle restaurants with their own merits to ensure that each one is delicious.
Lao Liang gan Diao
Address: No.937 Fenghuang Road
Lao Liang dry-selects fine noodles, and the sauce is particularly rich, which is suitable for people with heavy tastes. The toppings in the shop are the richest I have ever seen, and they are different every day.
Yipin noodles
Address: No.50 Qinlao Street
Yipin noodle restaurant is close to the city center and has a good location. It uses a plate surface and tastes slightly lighter than the old beam.
The meatballs in the shop are worth eating. They are fat and thin, and the umami flavor invades strongly. Wake up your taste buds with sweet pickles.
Aer noodles
Address: 7th Floor, Qiaozixiang Community
Al noodle restaurant is a legend in Huzhou. It queues up early in the morning and doesn't open until morning. Everyone knows it's delicious, and everyone knows the boss has a bad temper. Besides dry-picked noodles, dry-picked wonton is also delicious.
Ji Sun mutton pu
Address: No.257 Qinlao Street
Huzhou produces Hu sheep, and picking mutton noodles is a face in my heart. Mutton should be stewed in a cauldron for one night. Every bite tastes of meat, and there is just the right spicy garlic flavor, which is perfect.
In Huzhou, there are as many wonton shops as noodle shops, with smooth skin, plenty of meat and fresh soup. Although there are many wonton shops in Hangzhou, I don't think they can compare with them.
Chow sang kee
Address: No.43, Hongqi Road (several branches)
The most famous one must be Zhou Shengsheng's big wonton, which is too light to eat. Celery Kaiyang, dried bamboo shoots with flat tips and fried (miscellaneous) wonton are three kinds that I think have Huzhou characteristics. If you feel delicious, you can pack raw wonton and go home.
Shan Lian you la wonton
Address: No.55 Qingtang Road
Shanlian not only produces lake pens, but also spicy wonton. The secret of delicious food lies in this spoonful of secret spicy oil added to the soup. The point is not spicy, but fragrant.
The old woman in the shop is sitting in a bag and burning it to keep it fresh. Sprinkle another spoonful of lard residue, and even the bottom of the soup can't help but drink it clean.
Niupengtou wonton
Address: Laodong Road 12
The signboard of the cowshed head is a thin-skinned wonton. Wonton skin is light-transmitting when picked up, slippery when eaten, and easily addictive.
The skin of wonton is thin, but the meat stuffing is not thin at all. This is very solid and worthy of the price of 9 yuan a bowl.
Dinner is the highlight, so we need some local characteristics. When you arrive in Huzhou, you must eat three whites of Taihu Lake: white shrimp, whitebait and whitebait.
White shrimp tastes the best. This is a dish that can't cheat the freshness. When you go to the table, you know if the shrimp is still jumping.
This method can best eat the tender meat of white shrimp. Dipping this sour and sweet sauce with fermented milk is very appetizing.
Whitebait can be scrambled eggs or steamed. Long and thin, with a soft taste. Whitebait can't live out of the lake, so it is frozen elsewhere and can only be eaten fresh in the cities along the Taihu Lake.
White fish looks like a silver machete, and its meat is extremely fresh and tender. Scallion oil or steamed is good, avoid using too much flavor, but it masks the umami flavor.
Where are we going to eat three whites of Taihu Lake?
There is a place along the coast of Taihu Lake called Fisherman's Wharf, where there are many restaurants. I can choose a landscape facing the lake a long time ago. Every time I go, I will choose "Huzhou Laoxian", which is cheap and good.
Drive along Taihu Lake for another 6 kilometers, and you will arrive at Taihu Fengqing Street. There is also a street full of restaurants. Although the environment is not as good as fisherman's wharf, parking is easier and the price is more affordable.
In addition to these two food gathering places, I would also like to recommend several food restaurants with Huzhou characteristics:
Yongxin fish with Chinese sauerkraut
Address: No.45 Paimentou, Yushan Village
Fish with pickled vegetables is very popular in Huzhou. Fish with pickled vegetables is sour and spicy, and it has been transformed by Huzhou chefs into Jiangnan flavor with clear soup base and fragrant but not spicy. For people who don't like spicy food, it's simply gospel.
Yongxing pickled fish is hidden in the unknown path, but its business is booming.
There is no menu in the shop, and the proprietress will take you directly to the hot kitchen to order. If you want to taste the local characteristics of Huzhou, you can order fried meat pie, shredded eel, fish balls, fried embroidered brocade and snail roast chicken.
Jin tai Lao fa Cai
Address: No.26 Tian Min Road
Huzhou cuisine is salty, but Jintai doesn't make it so salty in order to cater to the public's taste. It tastes good and the products are good.
In a popular restaurant like Huzhou, the ingredients are all fresh that day. If you go late, you may not be able to order the signature dishes.
However, there are so many dishes worth ordering in Jintai that you can't finish a meal. Shrimp fish maw, fine sand sheep tail, snail pot, shrimp stinky tofu, steamed taro, braised fish maw stall and stir-fried ling meat. Bringing more friends is the right way.
Shanliren local restaurant
Address: No.29 Laodong Road
The people in the fly restaurant don't have a menu either, just look at the ingredients to order.
Huzhou people love stinky tofu, especially steamed tofu, which is delicious. The shop is full of home-cooked dishes. If you come at night, you can order crayfish and grilled fish for dinner.
As for dinner, it must be fried raw.
The midnight food store in Huzhou is a fried shop. Order a fried one and make a bowl of bone soup. Huzhou fried-dumpling is small and thin-skinned. You have to turn it upside down to see the bottom, and crispy skin is king. Don't order takeout, it's all boring.
Every fried shop has three trump cards: vermicelli soup, fried noodles and fried dumpling. Generally, the boss will make a frying pan at the door, and the action of turning the pan is very handsome.
Recommend several fried shops certified by Huzhou people:
Longbai dessert branch
Address: 50 Tasha Street
Jiang Jiang fried dumpling
Address: Xinhua Road 173
Renji Songmao
Address: Longwangshan Road 1 189
Sheng Qiang dessert branch
Address: North intersection of Pangong Bridge in graphite community
So many delicious foods, is there anything to take home and share with friends and family? Yes!
Traditional Ding Sheng cake
Address: No.252 Taxia Street
Huzhou is famous for snacks and cakes. In addition to the old brand town Yuantong, I also want an old shop in Amway. There are too many cakes here, which are dazzling. There are two kinds of cakes: one hundred fruit lard and plain oil bean paste, and they are also divided into large and small specifications.
Not only is it delicious, but the cake is also very valuable, especially in Osmanthus Jelly. Buy it home and steam it. Soft and sweet.
In different seasons, the products in the store will change. Qingming wants to buy black sesame balls, Linghu snow dumplings in winter and meat moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival.
Chow sang kee
Address: No.43, Hongqi Road (several branches)
Chow Sang Ji is a treasure. In addition to wonton, all kinds of braised chicken feet are worth buying, and there are thousands of packages of fresh meat in Kaiyang. Take it home to make soup and make sure it's delicious.
Zhou Shengsheng also has Huzhou syrup-Diversified Soup, which is unique in summer. It is chilled and cool, with mint flavor, and relieves summer heat 100. You can buy materials in the store and pack them to take away.
I compiled a food map. Click to enlarge.