What are the customs and eating habits of Suzhou?

Suzhou has a long history of food culture, specializing in stewing, braising, steaming, burning, stir-frying, and attaching importance to seasoning soups to maintain the original flavor and list of flavors.

Suzhou, with its temperate climate and lush grass and trees, has rich dietary resources. During the Spring and Autumn period, the Wu aristocracy based on the rich produce, living bells and whistles. The life of the sweet fat and cream. Qin and Han until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Suzhou has been one of the supply bases for the things of the royal inner court.

Suzhou food for thousands of years has formed its own unique style, so far there are Suzhou-style dishes, pastries, candies, brine, preserves, tea, cakes, fried goods, specialty condiments, specialty sauces, etc. is a major category of more than 1,000 varieties, so that the world has a "food in Suzhou," the saying.

Traditional dishes such as squirrel and cinnamon fish, three shrimp and tofu, steamed crab, and Changshu chicken are renowned both at home and abroad. The colorful and well-made cakes are closely related to the seasons and festivals, and according to the Qingxi Records, there are as many as twenty-eight seasonal cakes, and the cakes and candies are even more indispensable to the rituals of life.

The following is a picture of the famous dish of squirrel and cinnamon fish and three shrimp tofu.