Sweet Jellied Bean Curd with Sauce 蜜汁豆腐干

Sesame Cake with Mashed Date 枣泥麻饼

Huangtianyuan Gaotuan Shop 黄天源糕团

Suzhou-style Noodles 苏式面条

Changshu Beggar’s Chicken 常熟叫化鸡

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Sweet Jellied Bean Curd with Sauce 蜜汁豆腐干
Some find this sticky, glunintous sweet an acquired taste. Usually served in small, manageable square or diamond shapes, gooey gaotuan tastes a bit like candied fruit and a bit like non-dairy jellied custard. 

Ye Shou He
Founded in 1886, Ye Shou He has earned a reputation for offering and making some of the best traditional Suzhou munchies in the province.  Sip tangy plum juice while snacking on their fabulous almond shortbread.

Add: No.69 Guanqian Jie, Suzhou观前街69号
Tel: 0512-67709603

Sesame Cake with Mashed Date 枣泥麻饼
Suzhou is renowned for pastries and cakes. Suzhou-style cakes are flaky and almost croissant-like, very similar to puff pasteries.  Cakes are stuffed with such delicacies sesame date paste and lotus seed paste. Unlike many Chinese snacks, this scrumptious filler can definitively trace its roots to Mudu Village, where it was first produced in 1781.  

Cai Zhizhai 采芝斋
Cai Zhizhai first began selling its staggering array traditional Suzhou snacks in 1870.  Today, more than 300 treats are on offer at their Guanqian Jie location.  Enjoy confections, roast seeds, pyramid-candies, and of course sesame cakes with mashed dates.  Excellent place to pick up luxurious gift boxes of assorted sweets. 

Add: No.91 Guanqian Jie, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-65157826  
Website: http://www.caizhizhai.com.cn (Chinese)

Huangtianyuan Gaotuan Shop 黄天源糕团
Dealers in rice-based sweets and treats, notably Salty Cake (猪油糕团) and Rice Cake with Osmanthus Flowers (桂花糖年糕).
Add: No. 86 Guanqian Jie, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-67277033
Website: www.huangtianyuan.com.cn (Chinese)

Suzhou-style Noodles 苏式面条
In the old days, slurping a bowl of noodles, enjoying a cup of tea and watching a traditional Pingtan performance (Story-telling & Ballad Singing) were included in the daily rituals of many.  Today, there are still several locations where visitors and locals can enjoy cheap noodles the same way the ancients did.  The most notable Suzhou restaurants are Zhuhongxing, Luchangxing, Tongdexing, and Wufangzhai. Most of these noodle restaurants have a long history and their own specialty noodles. Common Suzhou noodle dishes include Eel Noodles (鳝丝面) , Shrimp Noodles (虾仁面)，Noodles With Sliced Meat (肉丝面)，Fish Noodles with Red Hot (爆鱼面) and Braised Pork Noodles.

Tongdesing Noodle Restaurant同得兴
Famous for their “Su-style Jiaotou Noodles” (苏式浇头面) and super-economy prices (about RMB10) per bowl.

Xinqu Branch
Add: No.36 Jinshan Lu, Suzhou金山路36号
Tel: 0512- 68244899

Wufangzhai Noodles Restaurant 五芳斋
Enjoy Wufangzhai’s famous Pyramid dumplings and Braised Pork Noodles.

Guanqian Noodles Restaurant
Add: No.1 Taijian Nong, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-65223282

Zhonghongxing Noodles Restaurant朱鸿兴面馆
Add: No.23 Fenghuang Jie, Canglang District, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-65229717

Luchangxing Noodles Restaurant陆长兴
Bifengfang Branch
Add: No.8 Bifengfang, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-67288978

Changshu Beggar’s Chicken 常熟叫化鸡
Though the dish might not sound appealing, the antediluvian methods used in the cooking process preserve the meat’s natural juices with tasty results.  A whole chicken is gutted and opened up, stuffed with ham, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and seasonings and finally wrapped in lotus leaf.  This delicious parcel is, in its turn, coated with mud and baked.  When the mud is dry and comes away from the leaves without leaving a residue, the chicken is ready to eat. 

Wangsi Hotel
The Beggar’s Chicken at Wangsi is famous city-wide.
Add: 23 Eunuch Nong, Suzhou
Tel: 0512-65227277

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