"Bianshi", known as "wonton" to northerners, is a kind of small ball made by rolling into a flour skin as thin as origami and wrapping a multi-flavored meat filling. In Puxian, there are mainly two kinds of flat food with clear soup and flat food with swallow skin. Xitianwei Bianshi is a swallow-skin flat food. It is famous for its exquisite production process and unique flavor, and has become a famous snack.

The characteristic of Yanpi is that the raw material is purely refined lean pork leg. The lean meat is manually mashed and chopped into a meat paste, then mixed with refined sweet potato powder, and then manually rolled to make it transparent. Cut the slices into small square pieces with a knife, stack them together, cover them with gauze to prevent drying and set aside. In addition, the lean meat is minced (recently changed to machine minced), and mixed with shrimps, green onions, refined salt, five spices, pepper, etc. as filling. The whole production is very delicate, and the selection of leg meat is very particular. No fat can be mixed with it. The chopped and pounded swallow skin must have a uniform texture and color, and must be kept fresh and tender. Wrapping flat food is also a meticulous handicraft that requires skill and dexterity. While ensuring high quality, it must also be clean and hygienic. In recent years, many customers have given Xitianwei flat food as fashionable gifts to relatives and friends, so they also pay attention to exquisite packaging.

Bianshi craftsmanship has a long-standing reputation and has its own history of inheritance and development. According to the legend of the local elders, around the 1930s and 1940s, there was a small vendor named A Zhao in Longqiao Village in the west of the city. His mother and son first opened a snack bar next to the "Yuan Chun" silver shop on Qian Street, specializing in flat food and hot rice noodles. , good service attitude, low price and good quality, which is deeply appreciated by domestic customers. A Zhao is good at absorbing the advantages of the skill of making swallow-skin flat food in Fuquan area, and improves it on this basis. The clear soup is stewed with pork bones, and the best Xinghua rice noodles from Xihong Village are blanched until soft, then seasoned with garlic paste, soy sauce, Vinegar, chopped green onion, etc., make the flat rice noodles unique, refreshing and delicious, making them famous far and near, and the business is booming.

Opposite "Bian Shizhao" is the "Ruichun" Jingguo store. The store owners are Hou Zhuo Zhumi and his son-in-law Zhu Can. The two families have a close and friendly relationship. Zhu Can often goes in and out to learn flat food cooking techniques from A Zhao. When he acquired the skills, he later set up a flat-food restaurant. After practice, Zhu Can made innovations based on A Zhao's craftsmanship and became the first generation successor. After that, Weng Youmei from Tinglin Village near Xitianwei also learned business, and then Wujiu, Afu, Jiubing and other companies stood out and learned from internal and external disciples. They also innovate technically and learn from each other. Not only does it operate in Xitianwei Street, but it also goes to villages to serve as entertainment venues for audiences. It is very popular and the business becomes more and more prosperous.

After the reform and opening up, Ah Fu, Jiu Bing and other descendants inherited the ancestral business and engaged in the flat food business. The scale continued to expand, developing from a flat food stall to a flat food shop, and operated as a chain in Chenghan, "Xitianwei Bianshi" "It has become a delicacy and a famous brand in Putian snacks.

In recent years, Li Suzhen (nickname Wei Suzhen) of Houzhuo Village has become famous for her own production and sale of Western Tianwei swallow skin flat food. She makes it in a family workshop, and the flat food she makes is exquisite in craftsmanship, crisp, tender and delicious. It is neither mushy nor sticky after being cooked, and the skin is thin, transparent and bright. It is deeply loved by consumers for its superior quality and unique flavor. Her workshop has registered the trademark of Xitianwei "flavor" flat food, and there is an endless stream of customers. In recent years, Xitianwei's "taste" flat food has become famous in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Many returned overseas Chinese and Taiwan compatriots buy it as gifts for visiting relatives and friends.

Nowadays, there are more and more Xitianwei Bianshi snack bars operating in various places in the city, and the business competition is fierce. How to maintain the characteristics of Xitianwei Bianshi, form a scale, and prevent counterfeiting, so that it can become a famous brand flavor food and occupy the domestic and overseas markets. This is a new issue facing Xitianwei Bian Food operators. They must make Fist Food stronger and bigger.