Wuxi specialties include Yunlin black wine, Wuxi oil gluten, Yixing lily, Dafu bayberry, Yixing purple sand pottery, Huishan clay figurine, Wuxi peach, Taihu three whites, Jiangyin horseshoe cake, and steamed buns. Bao, "meat bones", Wuxi sauce pork ribs, etc.

1. Wuxi Spare Ribs:

Wuxi Sauce Spare Ribs are red in color, crispy and fragrant, moderately sweet and salty, plump but not fat. In 1982, the Central News Record Film Studio filmed the cooking and sales of sauced pork ribs in Wuxi.

2. Yangshan Peach:

Yangshan Peach is one of Wuxi’s famous specialties, with a cultivation history of nearly 70 years. It has the characteristics of beautiful shape, bright color, good taste, fine meat, tough and easy-to-peel skin, rich and sweet juice, strong flavor and overflowing fragrance, and it melts in the mouth.

There are many varieties of peach, among which the early-maturing Yuhualu, the medium-maturing Baifeng and the late-maturing White Flower peach are the best. It not only has good color, aroma and taste, but also contains a certain amount of protein, fat, vitamins and various minerals. It is a Wuxi specialty that sells well in Hong Kong, Macao and overseas.

3. Taihu whitebait:

It is more than two inches long, with a slightly round body, shaped like a hosta, seemingly boneless and intestineless, tender and transparent, and silver-like in color, so it is called silver. fish. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Taihu Lake was rich in whitebait. The poet of the Song Dynasty famously wrote, "Whitebait and perch are under the frost after spring", which ranked whitebait and perch as treasures among fishes.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, whitebait was listed as a "tribute". Silverbait was originally a sea fish that later settled in Taihu Lake to breed. It is a valuable specialty of Taihu Lake. Whitebait has tender meat, rich nutrition, no scales, no thorns, no fishy smell, and can be used in various dishes.

4. Xiao Long Steamed Bun:

Wuxi Xiao Long Steamed Bun is a traditional snack in Wuxi with a history of a hundred years. It uses high-quality flour, carefully selected ingredients, and is steamed in a small cage. The cooked crab butter is put into the filling, which is the famous "crab meat dumpling".

5. Huiquan rice wine:

Huiquan wine is brewed by soaking Wuxi rice in spring water using a unique method. The spring water only uses Wuxi Huishan Second Spring Water, which is famous for its clear and sweet taste. Wuxi Huiquan wine, Shaoxing Jiafan wine, Danyang Fengtan wine and Fujian Shentan wine are known as the four famous wines in ancient China.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia Wuxi