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Bean paste
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TheSuzhou-style bean paste is made with wheat flour and soy beans or broad beans,or both.Thetraditional technique of making such bean paste is a complicated processincluding the procedure to allow mildew to grow on the beans so as to make thebean paste delicious. Therefore, the technique is now on the brink of beinglost.
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Pork Intestine Set
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Thisis a famous snack in the ancient Lili Town, with a history of more than 100years. It features boiled large pork intestine with small intestines inside.Thepork intestines are chewy, juicy but not greasy. It has become a specialty ofLili Town.
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Wheat sprout pancake
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Thepancake is a traditional Suzhou-style dessert made with a kind of plant knownas Gnaphalium affine D. Don and wheat sprouts. Thepancakes are usually stuffed with red bean paste or soy bean paste mixed withsweet pork fat cubes and walnuts. There are black sesames on their surfaces.The pancakes are first steamed and then pan-fried. They g...
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Two-faced Pan-fried Noodles
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Two-facedPan-fried Noodles is a famous traditional Suzhou-style noodle dish. It oncedisappeared for about 30 years before getting popular again.Cookednoodles are fried in a pan until they slowly turn golden and crispy. Thenoodles are usually served with toppings containing sliced eel or shrimps mixedwith other ingredients, and a bowl of e...
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Black Banquet
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Fromdumplings to noodles and chicken feet, everything on the table is black. Thisis the Black Banquet, which originated in the period of the Republic of China(1911-1949).Inthe 1920s, Shuang Feng Yuan, a restaurant in Nanjing, gained its fame foroffering black food, and its black banquet even got very popular with the Kuomintangofficials. ...
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Fish bone crane
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Lookat the picture below. The ordinary dish of Gorgon Fruits in Lotus Root isrendered extraordinary by the fish bone cranes and the lotus leaves. It is hardto imagine how fish bones were made into these lifelike cranes.Thehandicraft of making decorations for food with fish bones had been lost formany years before it got popular again. The...
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Simmered Duck with Soy Sauce
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SimmeredDuck with Soy Sauce, one of the Suzhou-style boat dishes, is a popular dish inautumn and winter.Thisdish features a whole duck simmered together with mushrooms, winter bambooshoots, shredded pork and vegetable in the broth containing high-quality soysauce.Theduck is tender and delicious, and the colors of the ingredients are beaut...
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