Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, hit Beijing, so that the Qing Palace Empress Dowager Cixi, Emperor Guangxu and other entourage, fleeing from Beijing to Xi'an City, South Street, smelled a fragrance, Li Lianying, the chief administrator looked up to see, it is the home of the Fried Noodle House, timely report to the Empress Dowager, the emperor, because of the long-distance travel Emperor and Empress Dowager is also exactly the same hunger and thirst, said that it would be to eat it. Into the store, Li Lianying to the shopkeeper to ask for a franchise of vegetarian sauce noodles, all eat a bowl and said: "taste really good, and then a bowl!" After eating, the Empress Dowager asked her entourage how the noodles tasted. All of them said in unison, "Absolutely good noodles, good! Good!" At this time, the Empress Dowager Emperor to drive on the road, the Empress Dowager instructed Li Lianying, the chief tube to do fried noodles to Beijing, brought to the palace to do fried noodles, from then on after the vegetarian fried noodles settled in Beijing.