Shiquan Street is located in the Guesthouse Zone in Ancient Town in
Suzhou, where also locate the famous Nanlin Hotel, Suzhou Hotel, Nanyuan Guesthouse and the classic garden, Wangshi Garden. With the uprising of tourist industry and Suzhou's remaking of its old streets, Shiquan Street has got anew appearance. All kinds of food and art and craft shops emerge accordingly and their businesses are prosperous.
Walking on Shiquan Street and looking up, you'll see beyond the well-proportioned new buildings with red-walls and black-tiles in Ming-Qing styles, there are many restaurants and art and craft shops adjacent to each other. Each has its own characteristics, such as Soup Head Restaurant specialized in boiling soup with fish-head, Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant and Yanzhi Saloon combining Wu Culture and food, Shancheng Hot Pot combining all local flavors, Japanese Food, Korean Food, Barbecue, Cantonese Food, Huaiyang Food, etc. Schools of dishes are gathered here completely and tourists at home and abroad are all attracted to rush up here. Art and craft shops on Shiquan Street all expand their own strong points, such as Su Embroider Shop specialized in Su Embroider art, Gold Sand Shop and Bogu Shop in ceramics and antiques and Ruiguang Shop in calligraphy and paintings, etc. Purple sand, pottery, silk, calligraphy and paintings, gold stone, green jade, pad auk articles all can be found here.
Suzhou Shiquan Street has become a special food and art-craft street renowned all over the world.
