Four must-buy specialties in Wuxi

Wuxi must buy four specialties: sauce ribs, oil gluten, Huishan clay figurine and Huishan crisp.

First, ribs with sauce

Wuxi sauce ribs is a famous dish in Jiangsu, suitable for all ages. Its color is like sauce red, the meat is crisp and rotten, the bone fragrance is rich, the juice is delicious, salty and sweet, which fully embodies the basic flavor of Wuxi cuisine.

Wuxi ribs are very particular about cooking. First, the selection of materials is fine. You need to take three fine straw rows as raw materials. Second, the ingredients are good, and you need to cook with soy sauce, soft candy, old rice wine, as well as onions, ginger, fennel, cloves, cinnamon and so on.

Third, the operation should be strict. For 100 kg of raw meat and bones, add 12 kg of soy sauce, 3 kg of sugar and 3 kg of yellow wine, and simmer for two hours. Finally, I made about 64 kg of Wuxi ribs, which kept the characteristics.

Second, Wuxi oil gluten

Wuxi oil gluten is a traditional famous dish of Han nationality in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to vegetarian dishes. Its production began in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty (1mid-8th century) and has a history of more than 230 years.

At first, the production method is to manually step the screened bran into raw bran (also known as gluten) with salt water, then knead the raw bran into a block and fry it into spherical hollow oil gluten in a boiling oil pan. The name of clear water oil gluten appeared in the late Qing Dynasty (1mid-9th century).

Third, Huishan clay figurine

Huishan clay figurines began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties with a history of 1000 years. The Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368 ~ 1644) reached its peak. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, professional clay figurine workshops began to appear, and with the popularity of Kunqu opera at that time, hand-held opera characters with opera characters as the theme appeared.

Huishan clay figurine is made of black soil with fine and pure soil and excellent plasticity near Huishan. The production process is divided into several parts: embryo rubbing, painting and phase opening. From the product variety, it can be divided into two categories: "hand-kneading play" and "impression mud toy".

IV. Huishan Pastry

Huishan crisp, formerly known as "heavy oil sesame cake", is a famous specialty in Wuxi. Legend has it that it was created by the monks of Huishan Temple at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Because it resembles the navel of the "Four donkey kong" statue in the temple, it has been praised as the "King Kong navel" by monks and has been passed down to this day.

Huishan Crisp is baked with pure vegetable oil, refined white powder, sesame seeds, nuts, shredded melon and other raw materials. Regular shape, golden color, crisp, sweet and salty, unique style, spread for hundreds of years.

Wuxi tourist attractions

1, Liyuan. Located in Huanhu Road, Binhu District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. The famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River pile up rockeries and use real water skillfully. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the doctor of the State of Yue went boating here with the beautiful stone, hence the name. The smoke green stamps of Taihu Liyuan issued by China in 1995 and the Taihu stamps issued by North Korea in 1996 all take Liyuan as the main scene of Taihu Lake.

2. Donglin College. Located at No.867 Jiefang East Road, Liangxi District, Wuxi City. One of the few remaining old houses and ancient buildings in Wuxi. "The sound of reading in the wind and rain is heard; Family affairs, state affairs, and what's going on in the world are all concerned. " This pair of famous couplets comes from Donglin College and is worth visiting.

3. Round-headed pig. Located atNo. 1, yunzhu Road, Binhu District, Wuxi City. It is a peninsula in Wuxi, on the northwest coast of Taihu Lake. It is named because there are huge stones protruding into the lake, just like floating catfish looking up.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wuxi