Food

One of the finest pleasures in Xitang is its delicious local food. Located in the fertile Yangtze Delta with abundant rivers, Xitang is famous for its fish dishes. The place around the Fengqiao bridge is one of the best places to sample Xitang food. Qiantang Restaurant next to the bridge is the favorite of many.

Steamed Pork Swathed with Lotus Leaves

Steamed pork wrapped with lotus leaves is considered as the most popular dish in town and patronized by most visitors and tourists because of its unique taste. This dish is enclosed with lotus leaves and famous spices like curd skin, fried noodles, cloves, aniseeds, soya beans, and sweet sauce that create a fragrant aroma to its visitors and tourists. The pork is pure pork without any added additives and preservatives. The serving process of this dish is remarkably natural and only learned chefs and cooks have the capacity to cook this kind of dish.

Yellow Cake

One of the most delightful desserts you can experience in Xitang is their Yellow Cake. This is one of the prominent foods in Xitang because of its unique taste and style. This is also called summer cake. Considered as seasonal pack food of Xitang Water town, it is a combination of thousand-year tradition. This food is made up of traditional ingredients including glutinous rice, black seeds, red peas, walnut, kernels, cudweed herbs and spices, wheat flour, and white sugar. Cudweeds are responsible for the fragrance of the cake. According to the people of Xitang, this food is capable of giving you longer life once you eat it.

Spiced Beans

Beans are one of the most popular foods in Xitang that you shouldn’t miss tasting once you are here. The beans are cooked under the sun, enabling each bean to become more flavourful than being cooked under fire. Afterward, these beans will be cooked in a stove with all of the seasonings and spices like orange peels, peppers, cooking wine, salt and aniseed.

Yellow Rice Wine

People in Xitang love to drink wine. As a result, they also include wine among their dishes. One of the best recipes they have is the yellow Rice Wine. The biggest producer of yellow rice wine in China is found in the northern part of Xitang Water Town. These wines in Xitang offer mildness and a unique taste to most of the people in Xitang and as well as the visitors and tourists.

Cake of Eight Treasures

This is also one of the premier dishes in Xitang because of its unique style and taste. The reason why it is called as the “eight treasures” is because it is made up of eight medicinal herbs including Chinese Yams, Tuckahoe, amaranth, rice kernels, malt, hyacinth beans, lotus leaves, and hawthorn berries. These are the major 8 herbs that make the cake of eight treasures best.