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Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

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Sanwanchang was founded in the fifth year of Qing Xianfeng (1855).

Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

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The founder is Sheng Yaoming, a native of Suzhou. Sheng Yao transferred it to Miao Chengfu next door to the store. Miao Chengfu ushered in the heyday of Sanwanchang.

At that time, Sanwanchang was a tea house shop for tea business, on the left side of the Xuanmiaoguan Guanyin Hall, with three open doors, and a well in the back through Dachengfang Lane.

Tea houses have the scene of hundreds of tables, in the past, it was customary to listen to books in Suzhou tea houses, and it was also one of the business projects that tea house shops must have. Sanwan Changkai is in the most lively Xuanmiao Temple on Guanqian Street, and it is such a large decoration, according to the current parlance, it is the entertainment center on Guanqian Street.

Sanwanchang was a household name in Suzhou at that time. There is a saying that "eat tea 30,000 chang, pee cow horn bang". Merchants negotiate business here, newspaper people get information here, literati talk about scholarship in tea houses, and even have the funny custom of "eating and talking about tea" and "talking about jintou", which Suzhou people call "tea party". Of course, there are also hooligans in it, and it is also the purpose of being able to support such a large teahouse.

On the eve of liberation, prices soared, the social situation was turbulent, the tea house industry gradually appeared disorderly and out of control, and the "Thirty Thousand Chang" gradually fell into the cold. After liberation, the Miao family transferred all the properties of Sanwanchang to the state. Sanwanchang has become a brand-name shop specializing in tea.

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Qianshengyuan was founded in the forty-sixth year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1781).

Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

Qianshengyuan was originally named "Fei Cuitai", and pine nut date mud cake is the signature product of the store. In the seventh year of Qing Guangxu (1881), it was renamed "Qianshengyuan", headed by Qiankun Bagua. "Qian" is Qiankun, referring to the world; "Yuan" is the first, which means the first in the world of hemp cakes made by Qianshengyuan.

Legend has it that once, the Qianlong Emperor's palace in the lower Jiangnan was at the foot of Lingyan Mountain. During the few days when the Qianlong Emperor lived, every morning he could faintly hear the chanting of the monks on the mountain. One day, it was exceptionally silent, and the Qianlong Emperor thought strange things, doing a monk for a day and reciting the Scriptures for a day, was the monk in Suzhou special? The Qianlong Emperor instructed the eunuchs to listen.

The eunuch went for a while and came back to pay his respects. It turned out that there was a pilgrim from Suzhou City on the mountain, and the pilgrim bag had Suzhou Qianshengyuan's hemp cake, and the old monk smelled the aroma of the hemp cake and didn't have the heart to chant...

The Qianlong Emperor was a little unconvinced, the hemp cake would be so fragrant? Immediately ordered the eunuch to go to Mudu Town to buy Qianshengyuan's hemp cake. The eunuch bought the hemp cake, and before it was sent into the room, the Qianlong Emperor had already smelled the aroma of the hemp cake, and his feet jumped up, and as soon as the eunuch entered the door, the Qianlong Emperor snatched it up. Dragon Face Delight. Since then, the jujube mud cake has also been listed as one of the imperial court dim sum, and its reputation has become even louder.

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Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

Zhu Hongxing, the king of the noodle industry. This golden signboard is actually less than 100 years old and only has a history of more than 60 years. However, popularity in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai is a "bang bang".

The earliest owner, Zhu Chunhong, opened a noodle shop of less than 30 square meters in March 1938 and named it Zhu Hongxing. Hiring skilled lu Fusheng palm stove, serving braised meat noodles, fried fish noodles, popped eel noodles, hoof noodles, frozen chicken noodles and soup buns, small cages and other kinds of dim sum.

Zhu Chunhong has a lively brain and a business idea: make a big fuss about the word "face". To study the tastes of customers, using Suzhou's specialties, we have successively launched curry egg sauce ribs; shrimp and crab powder; shrimp, shrimp brain, shrimp "three shrimps"; shrimp fried eel paste; three fresh turkeys; assortment; honey sauce shallot oil hoof and other noodle toppings, as well as shrimp broth buns, shrimp meat cages and roses, mint, fine sand, crisp, cabbage and other dim sum. Business exploded.

Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

Make a fuss about the word "soup". Suzhou noodles pay attention to soup water, Zhu Hongxing's daily hanging soup is made of chicken, pork, meat bones, eel bones as raw materials, add water to cook thoroughly. With a good soup, you must also have thin noodles, so that you can suck the soup into the noodles and the taste can be eaten.

Make a fuss over the word "face". It is 28 tooth thin noodles, and the master below is required to standardize the operation, and the grasping fence of the noodles is rolled tightly in the air, so that it can not only suck enough soup, but also have a mouthful.

Make a fuss about the word "bowl". In order to highlight the color, aroma, taste and shape of the toppings, it is also ingenious to use various porcelain bowls and different color soups to set off, such as hoof noodles with red soup safflower bowls; Braised meat noodles with red soup green edge bowl; Shrimp and crab flour noodles with white soup phnom penh bowl.

According to the needs of customers, a bowl of noodles can be made into hard noodles, rotten noodles, mixed noodles, soup noodles; tight soup, wide soup; reduce saltiness, increase saltiness; Heavy green, no green and no red and other different flavors, according to the size of the customer's appetite, the amount of flour can be more or less, but also prepared with pepper, ginger, chili oil and other condiments, for customers to choose.

Zhu Chunhong created many firsts in Suzhou soup noodles, and can be called the ancestor of Suzhou soup noodles.

Suzhou Guanqian Street, the old story of a century-old shop (3) 30,000 Chang Qiansheng Yuan Zhu Hongxing

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