Where should I buy the legendary cakes in Suzhou?

Cake balls are a traditional feature of Suzhou, and there are corresponding cake balls all year round. Suzhou cake group is not only sweet and soft, but also has a good meaning of blessing. Getting married, having children, celebrating a birthday, entering a higher school, moving and decorating a new house are all indispensable. Huang Tianyuan Pastry Shop in Guanqian Street in Suzhou and Wanfuxing Pastry Shop in Dong Zhong are the first choice to buy cakes. In recent years, online celebrity shops in Pishi Street and Rongyanglou pastry shop in Shantang Street are also popular with everyone, and pastry shops all over the food market are also popular with everyone. You can choose your favorite cakes according to your taste, which are sweet and salty and have various colors. This is the characteristic of Suchan pastry shop.

I am a foreigner who has lived in Suzhou for many years. According to my experience, Suzhou cake balls are mostly filled with glutinous rice flour, with bean paste, sesame sugar and other fillings, such as Chongyang cake, Ding Sheng cake and Dafang cake. I can't name many names. They taste soft and tough, sticky and chewy, and there are several kinds that I like to eat. However, according to my observation, many old Suzhou people like to eat the kind with suet, which is slightly salty. Few foreigners like it, and I am not used to it. There is also a kind of meat dumpling, which is white glutinous rice dumpling. The boss will pour soup into it before the guests take it away. I don't like this either. Most of these authentic Suzhou pastry shops are located in traditional food markets and patronized by old customers. If it's just for a few days, try buying some in the tourist area. If you are here to taste delicious food, I recommend two places: Fengmen Hengjie and Shili Shantang, and you should eat generous cakes when you go to Luxiang (this is a bit far).

Huang Tianyuan, if you are not in Suzhou, you can buy it on Taobao.