Suzhou’s Pingjiang Road is characterized by its local gourmet. The old street here preserves the ancient architecture, and the food and restaurants of the old street are closely associated with the ancient food culture of Suzhou. The biggest characteristic foods on this street fall into three types:
First, the street food along the old street, cooked by the local indigenous residents, who dressed in Jiangnan-style clothing, hawking along the street. The gourmet contains Osmanthus Jelly, Boiled Glutinous Rice Balls in Fermented Glutinous Rice, Fresh Meat Moon Cakes, Begonia Pastry, Bamboo Tube Glutinous Rice Cake, Stall Tea and other Pingjiang Road street snacks, allowing you to experience Pingjiang Road culture while walking.
Second, the stores with green bricks and white tiles facing the street. Many friends who love gourmet come specially for it. For instance, there is a dumpling restaurant in Zhuangyuan Street and adjoins to Pingjiang Inn. The Jiangsu flavor duck slice and fish head in the restaurant are smooth and tender, and people are always drawn to the extremely delicious flavor. There is a restaurant selling chicken on the central axis, here one can enjoy the delicious chicken feet and duck tongue. The scent spreads all over the old street. There are also fried food shops. If you take a bite, the fried juice will flow out and the meat taste is very good.
Third, some restaurants are mainly engaged in Suzhou cuisine, and the old taste is more authentic, the cuisines contain Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish, Bean Curd with Crab Roe, Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, Sweet and Sour Fish, Preserved Egg & Pork Porridge are all specialties. Just seeing the name of the dish will make people salivate.
