Sugar porridge

Suzhou people are famous for their love of sweetness, and sweet porridge is also sweet. Half of the sweetness of the sugar porridge comes from the white sugar, and half from the sweetness of the red beans. The beans are simmered slowly over a long time, boiled into red bean paste, and stirred together with glutinous rice and japonica rice, which are also stewed until soft, thick but not greasy, warm and warm in the mouth, and are very simple and delicious home-style taste.

Sugar porridge takes time and patience to simmer and stir, and many porridge stalls replace it with ground red bean paste, which is not bad in taste, but not as rich in texture as it is simmered for a long time. It is relatively easy to buy delicious soup porridge in the old city, and the Pan Yulin sugar porridge stall at the entrance of Pishi Street is famous on the Internet, and there are often long queues in front of the stall. His sugar porridge is made with solid ingredients, willing to work hard, and tastes good, but some customers have too high expectations and will inevitably be disappointed, after all, it is just a bowl of porridge. A shop called "Aunt Dong in Pingjiang" on Pingjiang Road is also very delicious, put the osmanthus into the porridge to boil, full of aroma, much better than the usual practice of sprinkling osmanthus petals on the surface of the porridge, this shop has no façade, only a table that is too small to be small, but many customers patronize.

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Pan Yulin's sugar porridge stall

Address: 50 meters east of the intersection of Pishi Street and Shijia Lane, the entrance of the flower and bird market of Pishi Street (west exit of Shijia Lane) 

Business hours: 12:00-15:00