Noodles with Wontons 饺面
Noodles with Wontons is featured among the local specialties of Jiangsu.
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Noodles with Wontons (饺面) is the noodle bowl that Modern Express (现代快报) chose to represent Yangzhou (扬州) in its 2022 round-up of thirteen noodles for Jiangsu's thirteen cities: a bowl of yangchun noodles (阳春面) with a portion of small all-meat wontons added.
Flavour and texture
The bowl has two parts. The base is yangchun noodles, the plain noodle bowl, and on top goes a serving of small wontons filled entirely with meat. Modern Express describes the wontons as large and generous, tender with a slippery bite, in a fresh, savoury broth.
For the noodles, the paper uses the word shenyun (神韵), their character or spirit: a particular way of controlling the heat when boiling gives them a particular chewiness, and a distinctive broth gives the bowl its distinctive flavour. The paper calls the bowl the password that opens Yangzhou people's hearts.
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Zhenjiang pot-lid noodles 锅盖面 →
Zhenjiang's entry in the same Modern Express round-up: Zhenjiang pot-lid noodles are cooked with a pot lid inside the noodle pot, where Noodles with Wontons adds meat wontons to plain yangchun noodles.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-25. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.