A mipi shop that has been on fire for 30 years

Sun Peng, a trainee reporter of this newspaper, xin yuan, and Liu Juxing, a reporter

Wu Xin became an "Internet celebrity", relying on ancestral craftsmanship.

At noon on April 27, it was raining. The "Wu Xin Mipi Shop" on Yanta North Road in Beilin District, Xi'an City, is full of people, and there is a group of customers who want to pack outside the door.

"If the weather is good, you can line up more than ten meters long." It was Wu Xin who spoke. This young man born in 1990 is the third generation of Wujia Mipi, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a head. He skillfully grabbed a handful of rice skins and put them in a bowl, added bean sprouts, mixed with salt, vinegar and home-made seasoning water, and picked up a small handful of rice skins dipped in chili oil and put them in the bowl, and in less than 15 seconds, a rice skin with a full color and flavor was made.

Because it is an old store that has been open for more than 30 years, most of the customers who come are repeat customers.

Everyone's taste is different, salty and light, garlic water dosage, spicy more spicy less, Wu Xin methodical, precise operation, always can make customers satisfied. "Wu Xin's rice skin, chili oil aroma is compelling, the taste is smooth and strong." Picking up a chopstick wrapped in red oil, the customer Mr. Chen ate it with relish.

"There is an old gentleman in his 80s who lives on Fengcheng 12th Road and has to take a car to eat two or three times a week..." Wu Xin's father, Wu Xuanxuan, said of many old customers in the store, full of pride. He said that good word of mouth not only retains old customers, but also attracts new customers who come to visit, and can sell nearly a thousand bowls a day.

"There are many mipi shops in the streets and alleys, and many stores are closed and moved within a few years." Wu Xuanxuan said, "We have been working in the mipi shop for 30 years, and we have been on fire for 30 years, relying on craftsmanship, but also honesty and duty. ”

In 1984, Wu Xuanxuan's father came from qindu town in yuanhu county to Jiandong Street near the xi'an city wall. A table painted with blue paint, two benches, and the mipi business along the street opened.

The making of the mipi starts in the middle of the night. In order to ensure the quality and taste, the old father began to grind and drawer every night in the middle of the night, and before dawn he would go out of the stall, cut strips and mix. Good craftsmanship conquered the taste buds of nearby residents and passers-by, and business gradually improved. He was more confident, put down a façade room, and opened the road to entrepreneurship.

In the 1990s, Wu Xuanxuan officially took over the storefront. "To do business first, be a person. Doing catering is a conscientious job, and it is necessary to use real materials and not adulterate. His father's repeated words before returning to his hometown made him unforgettable.

Wu Xuanxuan understood his father's good intentions. "Buy the best rice, use high-quality oil, spicy seeds with Xinjiang's stubble spicy seeds ... After calculation, the material cost is one to two percent higher than that of other families, but the price of rice peel is even closer to the people. Wu Xuanxuan often said, "Only if you have a house can you get it!" ”

"Soaking rice, beating, scalding, steaming... Every link of making rice peels, you have to pay close attention. Wu Xin, the teaching of his father, has always been kept in mind, he said, in order to ensure the taste, the Wu family always insisted on fresh grinding and steaming, ensuring the freshness and taste of the rice skin.

My fathers set up the "open-air stalls" and walked through the era of milling rice, beating pulp, burning firewood, and burning coal lumps, and created a "golden signboard". What is passed down from generation to generation is not only good craftsmanship, but also good family style. Nowadays, on major online platforms, "Wuxin Mipi Shop" ranks among the top few restaurants of the same type, and foreign tourists come to "punch in" every day.

For more than 30 years, everything has changed, only the original intention has not changed. "Today's happy days are all bought by my fathers with hard work." Wu Xin sighed, "I have caught up with the good times, and I must run a good storefront and make Wujia Mipi a 'catering business card' in Xi'an." ”

Author: Liu Juxing

Source: Shaanxi Daily