Our self-driving recommendation this time is Lotus Island, Yangcheng Lake. Lotus Island, Yangcheng Lake, is one of the most famous origins of lake crabs and a gathering place for agritainment.
The scenery here is really nice, there are fewer cars, and the air is good. When we arrived at the lakeside, the boss came to pick us up with a speedboat in less than 5 minutes. It turns out that the place to eat was on the other side of the lake. Hehe, it's interesting! On the speedboat, I felt the fresh wind on the lake surface, mingled with water grass and fishy smell from the water, which had a special taste - how leisurely! Before I got enough fun, the speedboat stopped steadily. The boss joked, "We've arrived, please get off the boat and visit the ship!" Oh, my goodness. When I stretched my head to look, I found that we had already arrived. This was a very unique restaurant, fixed by wooden piles under the water, the whole restaurant hovered over the water surface. Hehe, it looked like a ship docked at the shore (the boss used to name it Waterfront Farmhouse, now changed to Chengyi Crab Garden).
A group of more than 20 people went to the front line of crab tasting at Yangcheng Lake Agritainment Chengyi Crab Garden by speedboat one after another.
The best and simplest way to go to Chengyi Crab Garden is by self-driving. Drive 100.2 kilometers along Suzhou-Jiaxing-Hangzhou Expressway, enter the ring expressway straight to Yangcheng Lake. On weekends, there are quite a number of Wuxi people who specially come to Yangcheng Lake just to eat hairy crabs. But through our on-site interview here, we find that there is much knowledge about buying and eating crabs.
This is a very special Yangcheng Lake hairy crab agritainment, specializing in eating vegetables grown by themselves and aquatic products farmed in the lake.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs have been internally released for small-scale tasting.
When you break open a Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, you can already see it full of orange roe, it's extremely beautiful.
Chengyi Crab Garden's farmhouse dishes are really delicious: stir-fried snails, farmhouse salted duck eggs, boiled soybeans, lightly stir-fried spinach, farmhouse local chicken soup, scallion-braised eel, steamed mandarin fish, homemade dried fish...
We ate to our heart's content, haha, it's really satisfying.
Attached is the travel route:
Shanghai: Along the river expressway =======》SukunTai Expressway =======》Suzhou Ring Expressway ============》Exit north of Yangcheng Lake (turn left) ========== (westward) go straight for 500 meters (turn left) =========》go straight to the end ===========》North entrance of Lotus Island (Lotus Island No. 2 Pier)
Zhejiang: SuJia Expressway (towards Changshu direction) =========》Drive 100.2 kilometers along SuJiaHang Expressway, big hairy crabs of Lotus Island, straight into the ring expressway ===========》Exit north of Yangcheng Lake (turn left) ========== (westward) go straight for 500 meters (turn left) =========》go straight to the end =========》North entrance of Lotus Island (Lotus Island No. 2 Pier)
Suzhou: Star Lake Street (all the way north) =======》Chenglin Road (all the way north) =========》Xiangshi Road (along the lake) ===============》(see Raocheng Expressway 500 meters, turn right) North entrance of Lotus Island (No. 2 Pier)