Xu Honglin, owner of Old Liuhe Delicacies Restaurant, checks the pork legs for the dish of stir-fried ham bones with dried meat floss. [Photo/WeChat account: taicangdaily]

Numerous tourists and foodies are attracted to the store daily to visit and exchange their experience in cooking and enjoying delicacies with other counterparts, especially the store's owner, Xu Honglin.

Xu has undertaken the career as a professional chef for more than 20 years and now is a local hotel's executive chef.

He once won a gold award in a national food competition and was named one of the Outstanding Chinese Chefs, Renowned Jiangsu Chefs, and Excellent Cooking Teachers.

Xu prefers the cuisine culture to dishes. In these years, he has spent a lot of time in exploring the ways of cooking traditional Taicang dishes and their cultural stories.