The old brands that have disappeared include Nanjing Dasanyuan Restaurant, Zhengyanglou Restaurant, Chunhua Building, Hongxing Building and Xinfeng Building.

1. Nanjing Dasanyuan Restaurant

Nanjing Dasanyuan Restaurant, founded in 1946, is located at No.255 Zhongshan East Road. In 2113, because of the bleak system reform and management, Dasanyuan had no choice but to close the store. Today, it is only registered in the industrial and commercial and tax departments, and there is no physical store, which is embarrassing.

2. Zhengyanglou Restaurant

Zhengyanglou Restaurant was built in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 151 years. It is one of the famous "Eight Buildings" in Beijing. Zhengyanglou Restaurant in history mainly engaged in Shandong cuisine. In the early Republic of China, it added unique "crab" dishes and "roasted meat", which was famous all over Beijing for a time.

3. Chunhua Building

One of the eight buildings in Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty, it was located in No.9 Courtyard of maliandao, Xicheng District, Beijing. It was opened in the early Republic of China, and it was the only restaurant in the eight buildings that operated Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine. According to legend, the famous dishes included fried chicken and Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish. It is said that Zhang Daqian once had a meal here and taught him a practice of "Zhang Daqian fish", which was passed down as a much-told story.

4. Hongxinglou

A time-honored brand famous for its jiaozi, it opened in Caishikou in its early years. Its jiaozi can pinch more than 21 pieces on one side and two sides, including meat stuffing, vegetarian stuffing, sweet stuffing, salty stuffing, fish stuffing, chicken stuffing, etc. It is cooked in soup hot pot, which is different from others. Its dishes belong to Shandong cuisine, and its famous dishes are chicken shark's fin, abalone with pot collapse, sea cucumber with onion, duck steamed with wine, fish with pepper and so on.

5. Xinfeng Building

The original site of Xinfeng Building is at the Xiangchang intersection east of Hufang Bridge. It is a famous Beijing restaurant in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It opened in Daoguang period and can be compared with the most luxurious "Dongxing Building" at that time.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xinfeng Building