As a traditional Suzhou snack, Sugar Porridge is mainly made by mashed red beans, sticky rice, sugar and Osmanthus fragrans. Featuring flowery flavor and sweet red beans, it can also dispel dampness and clear spleen. Making a pan of thick and fragrant porridge mixed with red bean paste boiled for 5 or 6 hours, you will feel warm both in heart and stomach in winter when you take a bowl of steaming Red Bean Sugar Porridge.

It would be a pity if you come to Suzhou without trying fresh pork mooncake. It is crisp-shell moon cake, neither baked wheaten cake nor Guokui. You will certainly have a taste of oven-fresh cake because it’s pretty crisp and filled with meat juice. What a good smell.