What food is there in Changshu, Suzhou?
One: beggar chicken. According to legend, there was a beggar wandering around Changshu in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. He accidentally got a chicken and couldn't cook it. At night, he came to the moat, picked the lotus leaves, wrapped them in lotus leaves, coated them with rotten skin, set up firewood by the roadside, slowly baked them until dawn, peeled them off and opened the lotus leaf package. It is so fragrant that it spreads everywhere, which shocked the neighborhood. Look at this. It's amazing! Later, the chef of Wang Si restaurant improved the processing technology and became famous all over the world, so it was logical to name it beggar chicken!
Two: Mushroom oil noodles. There are special mushrooms in Yushan, Changshu. Mushrooms are like mushrooms, which are especially delicious. The fried noodles in Changshu are delicious, and one of them is mushroom oil noodles, which is a specialty of Changshu. Outsiders have to admire and taste when they come to Changshu. Now the price of a bowl is almost the same as that of 30 yuan, because the mushroom production is very limited.
Osmanthus fragrans Changshu people used to have a tradition of brewing rice wine. Because of its unique flavor, some people added osmanthus in the brewing process, and the brewed rice wine was fragrant and sweet. Osmanthus fragrans brewed by Wang Si Hotel is very famous.
Four: duck blood glutinous rice. There is a broken dragon stream in Yushan, Changshu, which flows all the year round. According to legend, there is a dragon in the stream that often hurts people. The Dragon King of the East China Sea was furious and killed the dragon, so the water flowing through Duanlongxi turned red and flowed into the glutinous rice fields of the following people. The glutinous rice planted by ordinary people has also turned red, which tastes particularly fragrant and glutinous. Because it is as bright as duck blood, people call this kind of rice duck blood glutinous!
During the Republic of China, the Song sisters came to Changshu for a spring outing from Shanghai and tasted the four famous Changshu specialties at Wang Si Restaurant at the foot of Yushan Mountain. They were full of praise!
Beggar chicken and double-sided yellow. Interestingly, they are both from Wang Si Restaurant.
More interestingly, when you leave Wang Si restaurant, turn right into the mountains. In addition to Xiao Fu Ji, there is also a kind of delicious food, mushroom oil noodles.
I don't know the name of the other one. It seems that every household knows it. Stir-fry large pieces of pork belly, stir-fry large pieces of fish, then cook soup and put some vegetables in it to satisfy the whole winter.
Beggar chicken
Come to Changshu and eat a bowl of fried noodles at Changji noodle restaurant on Huancheng Road. In fact, you can also buy pine cake in Ren Minqiao. You can order some blood glutinous rice in the restaurant, and the beggar chicken can have a taste. In addition, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs can eat what they buy!