In the 1940s, around the Imperial Pavilion of Chong'an Temple, there were three of the most famous dim sum shops. They are Gongbei Noodle House, Wang Xing Ji Wonton Blunt Shop and New Wanxing Noodle Hotel. Each of the three top confectionery shops has its own character. GongbeiLou's knife cut noodles, large cage large meat steamed bun tin bang special stewed meat, soft eel and other noodle toppings; Wang Xingji's red soup big meat ravioli with thread powder; The shallot oil chicken flatbread and silver noodle noodles of the New Wanxing Noodle Hotel are all recognized as delicious by wuxi's old diners.
Wang Xiaoyi, the founder of the new Wanxing Noodle Hotel, was born in the eleventh year of Qing Guangxu (1885). In the early years of the Republic of China, xizhi street outside the west gate and his wife set up a noodle stall, after the hard work of the two, in a few years in Xizhi street opened a noodle restaurant called "Jufu Garden", selling tea in the morning, also managing the morning, running a homely meal at noon, and becoming a bookstore in the afternoon. Wang Xiaoyi worked hard from morning to night and earned some money. Wang Xiaoyi is very eduretic about catering and dim sum, and the taste of pastry is very well received by customers. In the 1920s, the Ximen Bridge was rebuilt, from a wooden bridge to a reinforced concrete bridge, and the original West City Gate "was closed as a result, and the south moved to another West Gate, facing the West Gate Bridge, which Wuxi people used to call the New West Gate." After the reconstruction of the Ximen Bridge, Wang Xiaoyi's Jufu Garden was affected by some business. Coincidentally, at that time, after the Xinhai Revolution, some temple properties were encroached upon by Qin, Xue and other squires to become storefronts, and a new park road was opened. The ruins between the "Daxiong Treasure Hall" of Chong'an Temple and the Imperial Pavilion became the first and largest small vegetable market in Wuxi. The Chong'an Temple area has become the most prosperous part of Wuxi, and the Chong'an Temple Vegetable Market has become a concentration point for various characteristic food stalls in the afternoon, forming a very prestigious "Huangting Snack".
Wang Xiaoyi, with great business acumen and pioneering spirit, aimed at this business opportunity, and rented five facades that formed a curved shape close to Park Road opposite the north end of the Imperial Pavilion, with a business area of 400 to 500 square meters. Wang named this newly opened noodle restaurant "New Wanxing Noodle Restaurant" in front of which is a kitchen for making dim sum, noodle rice, and dishes, and a large dining room sells dim sum in the morning and serves meals at noon, and in the afternoon and evening it becomes a bookstore. In the afternoon, there were snacks sold at the door. Although "New Wanxing" is not a professional bookstore, it is a year-end book club for famous artists, because the new Wanxing field is large, and most of them are held here.
Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in addition to Wang Xingji wonton shop, Chong'an Temple also had a wonton shop called "An Fu Yuan", the competition was quite fierce, and the various snacks in the Imperial Pavilion were "eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing its divine ability", and if the new Wanxing wanted to stand firm, it must have a hard fist product. After deep consideration, Wang Xiaoyi launched the "Chicken Flatbread with Shallot Oil". Scallion oil flatbread without eggs commonly known as "light cake", is spread into twenty centimeters of pancakes with white flour, there is a filling made of onion lard, evenly placed in a pan with lard fried into the outer yellow and soft inside, onion lard filling salty with sweet, the taste is very good, the scallion oil pie noodles with an egg will become the unique "shallot oil chicken pie" of Huangting snacks. Since then, the new Wanxing's shallot oil chicken pie is well known in Wuxi for all ages. In order to facilitate customers, New Wondershare can also bring eggs to process, just paste some oil money, count the onion oil light cake money. Later, Wang Xingji Wonton Shop defeated AnFuyuan in terms of quality and price, and instead added onion oil chicken flatbread to compete with New Wanxing, but in terms of quality, it never surpassed New Wanxing. In addition to the chicken flatbread in green onion oil, the screw steamed buns served in the morning are also a must. The screw bun is made of fine white noodles, which resemble a screw shell in shape, and the filling has two kinds of vegetable lard and washed sand. The screw bun is soft and delicious, and elderly customers especially like to eat it.
When Wang Xiaoyi's two sons, Wang Yaokui and Wang Yaozhong, were still teenagers, he intentionally let them participate in the management of the store and familiarize themselves with the business. In 1936, Wang Xiaoyi died of illness due to years of hard work, at the age of fifty-two. After Xiao Yi's death, the two sons immediately took over the class, Wang Yaokui took charge, and Wang Yaozhong later managed the finances. Wang Yaokui has a wide range of hobbies, and when he was young, he was a strong player on the court, playing basketball well and playing football well. He studied under the famous Wuxi painter Hu Tinglu, who was Hu's disciple and was quite accomplished in Danqing. In the 1980s, he held a solo exhibition in Xihui Park. After Wang Yaokui and Wang Yaozhong opened the new Wanxing Noodle Hotel, they reorganized the interior, expanded the scope of business, and increased the business of evening wine, rice and dishes. New Wondershare invited celebrity chefs to take charge of the spoon, curd meat, family portraits and other traditional tin dishes, maintain the original traditional characteristics, the new raw stir-fried eel slices, freshly killed and stir-fried, crisp, tender, fresh, and then sprinkled with white pepper, it is really delicious. The old hall in the hall, Yang Erguan, was so thin and bald that there were few hairs on the top of his head, and the old customers affectionately called him Yang Zhenzi. Although Lao Yang is not as good as GongbeiLou Monkey Monkey Head Ah Rong has a unique skill, he can serve thoughtfully and treat guests warmly, and has been praised by old diners.
In the early days of liberation, due to the change of social consumption layer, high consumption in hotels was almost extinct, in order to increase turnover, New Wondershare once again launched a new variety - "silver wire noodles". The production process of silver wire noodles is more than ordinary noodles, first of all, the use of fine flour, and noodles to add a certain amount of egg white, and noodles to grasp the amount of water, water temperature, to be even, and thorough, rolling noodles than the general to roll twice, the noodles made out of thin and smooth, will not be sticky after the pot, absolutely will not burn. In addition to chicken and soup bones, some ingredients should also be added to the noodle soup. Bowls of clear soup silver wire noodles on the table, really can make people's appetite greatly increased. With good noodles, of course, it can attract many customers. The egg silver noodles of The New Wanxing were popular in Wuxi, until the public-private partnership of New Wanxing was transformed into a group noodle shop, and the shop sign was still "For the Group Silver Silk Noodle Shop". In 1970, New Wondershare reverted to its original store name and was managed and operated by Wuxi Catering Company for a period of time. At the end of the 1970s, the new Wanxing ceased to exist. Until 2015, the new Wanxing silver wire noodles reappeared in the jianghu, and the store sign used "New Wanxin". This time, the new Wondershare declared the second batch of Wuxi time-honored brands, so that the bowl of silver noodles that the gourmets had in mind returned to the public's eyes...