Beiyuan Cuisine

This guide to Beiyuan Cuisine in Guangzhou opens with a nickname locals gave the spot in the nineteen twenties, before it had koi, pavilions, or even its current name. You'll hear how merchant leader Zou Dianbang founded a restaurant here in nineteen twenty-eight that fed generals and poets until Japanese occupation shut it in nineteen thirty-eight, and how former staff revived it after the war. The guide follows the site into a nineteen fifty-six rebuild ordered by the city, when the mayor himself is said to have named it above the gate.