SuzhouFood Restaurants

Suzhou’s cuisine is very similar to that of Shanghai and is characterized by light flavors, sweet dishes and an abundance of fish and shellfish. The signature Suzhou dish is the oddly named squirrel mandarin fish(songshu guiyu). The fish is argely de-boned (a real blessing for travelers who are not fluent in the use of chopsticks) and sliced into pieces that remain attached to the fish then fried. When cooked, it looks a bit like a squirrel’s tail and is garnished with shrimp, mixed vegetables and shrimp cook red Biluo teich adds a unique flavor. Jiyou caixin ( is cabbage hearts cooked in a chicken broth. It’s colorful and tasty. Watermelon chicken (xigua If the summer. If you’ve got sweet-tooth munch on guihua wushu’ou.It’s made they’ re iand brown sugar. Other favorites include snowflake crab, steamed hairy crabs (when they’re in season around mid-autumn) freshwater shrimp, crayfish and river snails. Many of Suzhou’s oldest and most famous restaurants can be found along Guanqian Jie. Go to Shiguan Jie if you’ve got a hankering for a steak or some sushi lots of restaurants dishing up foreign food are there. Fenghuang Jie is pack packed with restaurants serving traditional Suzhou and Zhejiang dishes.

A bride and groom head to their wedding ceremony through one of Suzhou’s many canals.

RESTAURANTS

Deyue Lou

Specializes in Suzhou cuisine like the most famous Suzhou fish dish Songshu guiyu, jiyou caixin and house creations like deyue tongji and zaoliu yupian 25/27 Taijian Long, Guanqian Jie

 10 am to 10 pm

 Shijia Restaurant

Established during the Qing dynasty, known for their three-shrimp tofu (sanxia doufu),jiyoucaixin ,Jiyoucaixin,akindoffishsoup

15-1 Jinshan Lu, Mudu Town

 10am to 9: 30pm

Song He Lou

Visited by Emperor Qianlong, who provided the calligraphy for the restaurant’s doorway tablet; restaurant specializes in the squirrel shaped mandarin fish(songshu guiyu),stir -fried- prawns(qingchao xiaren), meat and sticky rice steamed in lotus leaf(heyefen zhengrou and xiehuang doufu.

141 Guanqian Jie

 10: 30am to 10pm

 Suzhou Snack Restaurant

 Specializes in Suzhou snacks such as baitang wushu’ou, osmanthus rice dumplings(guihua tangyuan), sticky rice with duck’s’ blood(chdo xuenuo) and snails in soy sauce(jiang tianluo).

19 Taijian Long, Guanqian Jie

10:30 am to1:30 pm,4:45 pm to 9:30 pm

Wangsi Restaurant

Specializes in sansi chuncai tang, succulent chicken dishjaohuaji, also try their homebrewed liquor(zizhiguihua baijiu it’s strong stuff.

15 Taijian Long, Guanqian

 11am to 2pm, 4: 30pm to 9: 30pm

 Yaba Shengjian

 Famous for their noodle yaba shengjian, popo huntun

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