I have been in Wuxi, Jiangsu for more than ten years. Why don't I know what's special?

It means that you have no contact with Wuxi people. Maybe your colleagues or friends are all from other places, and even Wuxi locals may be young people. If this is the case, it is normal to come to Wuxi for more than ten years and not understand the local specialties.

Wuxi has three traditional specialties. In the past, relatives and friends from other places came to Wuxi, and Wuxi people usually prepared these special products to take back to relatives and friends from other places. Wuxi people usually take these specialties as gifts when they visit relatives and friends in other places.

Wuxi meat bones, clear water oil gluten, Wuxi clay figurines and, of course, Wuxi steamed buns are also famous snacks on the Shanghai-Nanjing line. In the past, when Shanghainese came to Wuxi, they usually brought some steamed bread back to Shanghai.

Because of these three specialties, there are also jokes to laugh at Wuxi people. Oil gluten is empty. It looks like a big basket, but it is not heavy. Wuxi clay figurines, looking at flowers, are actually just worthless with the mud in rice fields. Send a meat, not meat, but bones.

There is no such thing, then how do you know [I want to be quiet]

According to Mr. Qian Zhongshu's description in Fortress Besieged, the specialties of Wuxi are all deceptive things, such as pork ribs without meat, dolls squeezed out of mud, and unknown teapots!

In fact, there are many specialties in Wuxi. Sanfengqiao's century-old soup-stock spareribs, because Wuxi cuisine is heavy in sugar and heavy in oil, northerners are more resistant to sweet spareribs, and naturally they are not very good specialties.

Clear water gluten, because of the problem of practice, even if it is sent as a specialty, others will not eat it. If made into meat gluten, the taste is not suitable for foreigners.

Huishan clay figurines, originally a lucky couple, were used to ward off evil spirits in town houses. It is really a good thing to give people away, but later, due to the elimination of artificial mold, the natural value has been reduced a lot, and the significance of specialty products has been lost.

Zisha pots, due to the mass production of mechanism and the shortage of purple raw materials, naturally there will be a large number of chemical mechanism pots that are said to be Zisha pots, and gradually they are of little value.

With the extensive use of machines, the original rice cakes and jiaozi gradually lost their flavor. Especially the crab powder cage, there is only one name left, and crab powder has already been replaced by other materials.

Wuxi Daafu (clay doll), meat bones (ribs with sauce), clear water oil gluten. Because these three things are either puffy in appearance (clay dolls (hollow in the middle and angry in the middle) or fleshy bones, people ridicule Wuxi people as Diao Wuxi.