The Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022 is coming, and there are many Mid-Autumn Festival in Suzhou=local specialties worth buying and tasting. So what are the specialties of Mid-Autumn Festival in Suzhou? Let's take a look at the specific details
Su style mooncakes
During the Mid Autumn Festival, mooncakes are naturally indispensable. There are many varieties of Su style mooncakes, including meat and vegetables, sweet and salty. Among them, the love of Suzhou people for fresh meat mooncakes can be seen by just looking at the long queue in front of the fresh meat mooncake shop one week before the Mid Autumn Festival every day
Osmanthus candy taro
Every August Mid Autumn Festival, every household in Suzhou likes to eat osmanthus candy taro.
. According to elderly people, there was a custom of eating taro as early as the Han Dynasty. The taro is snow-white and pink, and when mixed with osmanthus and sugar, it tastes sticky and sweet, with a delicious and palatable taste
Osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root
Osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, also known as roasted lotus root. Whenever the osmanthus fragrance wafts, people in Suzhou like to use white flower sugar lotus root to make steamed lotus root to eat, and then sprinkle some fresh osmanthus, which is sweet and fragrant. Especially on the night of Mid Autumn Festival, roasted lotus root is a must-have snack for thousands of households in Suzhou to enjoy the moon
Chicken Head Rice
When it comes to seasonal delicacies in Suzhou during the golden autumn season, the first thing to recommend is chicken head rice. Chicken head rice, also known as fresh glutinous rice, has a round spherical fruit with a protruding tip resembling a chicken head. It has the functions of invigorating the spleen and qi, strengthening the kidneys and astringent essence. Suzhou chicken head rice and fruit grains are like pearls and jade, crystal clear, fragrant and soft, with a very good taste. They are the top choice among Suzhou's local specialties
Hairy Crab
Yangcheng Lake hairy crab is famous all over the world. Autumn wind rises, crab is plump, just thinking about it makes my mouth water. In Suzhou, without hairy crabs, autumn cannot be considered autumn. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family will have a hairy crab on the table, which is fresh and delicious
Shuihongling
Shuihongling from Suzhou Real Estate is also known as "Suzhou Red". The so-called 'fresh lingsu lotus root', fresh lingsu can be tasted as a fruit, with a sweet and tender taste, crispy and raw, subtle sweetness with a slight astringency, and can clear heat and relieve fever; Laoling can be used as a snack after it is cooked. It has a unique flavor
Baiguo
"With a strong autumn flavor and ripe Baiguo, Suzhou is a major producer of Baiguo in China, accounting for about 20% of the country's total output. During the White Dew season, in the vast white fruit forests of the East and West Mountains, one can observe carefully and discover clusters of white fruits hidden among the dense leaves
Osmanthus Cake
Osmanthus Cake is a special snack in Suzhou. It is a kind of cake made of glutinous Rice noodles, sugar and sweet osmanthus as raw materials. With the improvement of the method, the appearance of today's osmanthus cake looks much more exquisite than before: white and red are perfectly distributed on the pastry, creating various exquisite patterns, and sprinkled with the delicate and tender yellow osmanthus flowers, the color is very beautiful, and it tastes sweet and refreshing, delicate and smooth