Lunch - Suzhou

Suzhou is famous for producing silk in China and has many silk factories in the area. 

After learning about the silk production process at the Silk Factory and shopping for silk...

 

Unraveling silk worms from their cocoons

Stretching the silk

We went to the top floor for lunch: 

Top dish is pork belly and lotus root and bottom dish is choy

The sauce in the pork belly dish was slightly bitter with all the other ingredients, but the pork belly managed to mellow out the taste of the sauce. The pork was juicy and good. The choy was simply cooked in oil and it was okay as well.

Sweet and sour pork and scrambled eggs

The sweet and sour sauce was good, but the pork had a weird gummy texture to it (sort of like mystery meat). For the eggs, they used some light white sauce to scramble it and it was different.

Noodles in soup with salted vegetables and in the back is the tofu dish

I really liked the noodles: I probably could have eaten a bowl of it by itself. The dish seemed out of place since our lunch was served with a huge bowl of rice. 

The tofu dish was okay, I wasn't a big fan of the sauce in which the tofu was cooked.

Tofu and choy soup

Very oily, but the tofu was good. 

Dried tofu strips

This was a strong aromatic dish with a spicy sauce. 

Squirrel fish and lettuce (Chinese coleslaw?)

Fish was delicious but the sauce was a little saltier than the fish from the night before. 

The lettuce was bland.

Conclusion: It was a decent meal - the Suzhou squirrel fish is amazing!