The legend began when the founder of Wong Chi Kei Wonton Noodle (黃枝記雲吞麵), Mr. Wong Wun Chi (黃煥枝), learnt the intricate skill of making delicious noodles with a bamboo stick (as a pivotal mechanism to compress the flour mix) from a famous Hua-yuan master in 1945 in Guangzhou. Soon after mastering the technique, Mr. Wong opened the first shop in She-lung, Dongguan in 1946 with immediate success. He then moved to Guangzhou in 1951 and opened another shop with similar success. In 1959, Mr. Wong settled inMacau at the premises of Rua Cinco de Outubro. During the subsequent four decades, Wong Chi Kei Wonton Noodle won the loyalty of numerous patrons with its mouth-watering noodle dishes.
Wong Chi Kei is now entering the third generation, still dipping into the tradition and spreading the Cantonese noodle culture by expanding the shop from Macau to other parts of the world.
