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Pishi Street: the sweetest street in Suzhou

Introduction

Pishi Street is very special. It is close to the crowded Guanqian Street area and is famous for the flower and bird handicraft market. In Song Dynasty, Pi Shi street was a long street that connected the north and south. The local leather merchants gathered here, opened shops and set up stalls, and became the leather market, so it was named Pishi. It is also said that PI Rixiu, a poet in Tang Dynasty, once lived here, built villas, commonly known as “villa”, and was mistaken as “Pi Shi”. Nowadays, the leather market has disappeared but the flower and bird handicraft market is still lively. At the same time, it is also a “super sweet” food street. The Suzhou people like the sugar porridge, cake dough, red bean paste round son, which can be found here. In this old street with trees, every interesting shop is not to be missed. Every street gadget is a stop. Here I see a flower, walk a bird, buy some snacks to relieve my cravings, add a little sweetness to the plain life, which is the Soviet-style life in yearning for.

Pan Yulin sugar porridge

No stall in winter and summer, no stall in rainy and snowy days, no stall in family affairs If you want to eat this bowl of Pan Yulin sugar porridge, in addition to waiting patiently, you have to rely on some luck. Two spoonfuls of white porridge and dense and delicate red bean paste made up a bowl of Yuanyang sugar porridge. Soft glutinous small round son, and sweet red bean paste, mixed into a bowl of red bean paste round son. Sprinkle some dried osmanthus, sweet taste, eat people’s hearts warm, like back to the happy time of childhood.

Address: No.46 Shijia lane, Gusu District

Pan Yulin sugar porridge

Yangzhaodi pastry

Yangzhaodi pastry has been a good taste for the old Suzhou people since it opened for more than 20 years. The store only sells red bean cake, red bean lard cake and Zaozi bean cake. Red bean lard cake is the most popular one in the store. The red beans with clear grains and crystal clear lard are two different flavors. It is very attractive to watch. Eat, is soft and dense, with a little bit of chewing, slightly sweet taste is not greasy, full of raw flavor.

Address: 277 Pishi street, Gusu District

Yangzhaodi pastry

Ten years of spicy hot

Although it is called “ten years”, it has been more than 20 years since it was opened. It is a favorite place for many people when they were students. The food in the shop is fresh, including meat, vegetables and staple food. It is full of two refrigerators. The soup is clean, delicious and spicy. Choose more than ten kinds of dishes, cook a bowl of spicy hot pot, just like a “one person” small hot pot.

Address: 296 Pishi street, Gusu District

Ten years of spicy hot

Zongxia egg cake

Zongxia egg cake has been open for more than 20 years, from the former stall to the clean and open shop. A round pastry cake, with meat kebabs, ham sausage, bacon and other ingredients, rolled into a thick luxury breakfast. A bite down, the crisp taste, rich fragrance, instant let the early people energetic.

Address: 296 Pishi street, Gusu District

Zongxia egg cake

Chixiaodou Restaurant

A bowl of Su style mung bean soup with glutinous rice, red and green silk, kidney beans, honey jujube and wax gourd sugar and two soft glutinous and gelatinous chicken feet is a must in summer. When the weather turns cool and mung bean soup is on the market, the snacks in the shop, such as red bean paste dumplings, wine dumplings, spring rolls and fried chicken legs, begin to accompany Suzhou people to start the happy day of “sticking autumn fat”.

Address: 325 Pishi street, Gusu District

Chixiaodou Restaurant

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