Xitang旅行予算ガイド

A centuries-old rice-wine brand rooted in Ming-dynasty Xitang, famed for its handcrafted huadiao and shanniang wines and a pillar of Jiangnan's yellow-wine tradition.

A century-old apothecary in Xitang, celebrated for its food-as-medicine Eight-Treasure Cake, paired in folk saying with Beijing's poria cake.

A food-as-medicine cake first created by Zhong Jiefu Tang, blending eight medicinal herbs into a snack that doubles as a gentle digestive tonic, Xitang's most iconic traditional pastry.

A Jiangnan yellow wine brewed in Xitang for four centuries, famed for handcrafted huadiao and shanniang, mellow and warming, the soul of the water-town table.

A soft glutinous cake made with the water-town delicacy gorgon seed, evolved from Eight-Treasure Cake and one of Xitang's best-loved take-home snacks.

Three generations of fried stinky tofu from a Xitang alley, made with a secret family brine, crisp outside and tender within, the old town's most beloved street snack.

A traditional Xitang dish of a whole pig trotter slow-braised with spices until melting and fragrant, known for the auspicious wish in its name.

Freshwater crabs from the waterways around Xitang, rich with golden roe in autumn, the seasonal river delicacy of the old water town.

Jiangnan folk songs from the Jiashan water country, clear and graceful with a deep water-town flavour; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.

The century-old craft behind Zhong Jiefu Tang's medicinal pastry, embodying food as medicine; a third-batch Zhejiang provincial ICH item from 2009.

A centuries-old temple fair at Xitang honouring the Grain-Protecting King, uniting worship, procession and folk performance; a fourth-batch Zhejiang provincial ICH item from 2012.