About the founding of the same and the residence of the information recorded: said to be the Qing dynasty, a royal relatives, in order to have a convenient place to eat, drink and play outside the palace, they invited a few people, opened the same and the residence. At first business is general, the store is not famous. One day, living in the west four cylinder tile city of a financial management of the Prince occasionally to the pavilion to eat, the owner of a hundred attentive service, carefully cooked a few specialties, won the King's heart, the King after eating greatly appreciated, therefore, the pavilion business will have a turnaround. In order to attract business, the small museum often guests as friends, so that it has a "home away from home" feeling, it will take "the same and happy" meaning, named "the same and the residence". In the early years of the Republic of China, Mou Wenqing, the owner of the restaurant, asked Yuan Xiangfu of the Imperial Household Cuisine to help him cook, and Yuan Xiangfu made Tongheju even more famous with his famous palace dishes such as "three non-stick dishes" (non-stick plate, non-stick spoon, non-stick teeth), etc. In 1939, Guangheju closed down, and most of the chefs came to Tongheju, which led to the business of Tongheju to be booming, and the reputation of Tongheju was getting bigger and bigger, and it became one of the eight famous restaurants in the old capital city. It became the first of the famous "Eight Great Restaurants" in the old capital. The operation of the point more colorful, the peak period can do four or five hundred kinds of dishes.

The capital's old restaurant to Lu cuisine. There are eight halls, eight buildings, eight big residence.

On the residence. The flourishing of dining in the capital can be traced back to the mid-12th century, when the Jin Dynasty, founded by the Maidens, moved its capital to Beijing. With the subsequent Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties set their capitals here one after another, Beijing became one of the most prosperous places in China, and for a time, guests from all directions gathered, and people of all colors gathered, and restaurants flourished. To the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it is the formation of the Lu cuisine as the main, Halal, Huaiyang, supplemented by Sichuan and Guangdong, with the court food, government food of various flavors of the size of dozens of restaurants. Among them, the more famous ones are the two dozen or so large restaurants known as 'Ten Great Halls', 'Eight Great Buildings' and 'Eight Great Houses'. Those called 'halls' were generally the largest stores. There are not only loose seating halls, but also have stage venues, can hold large banquets, can also be here to invite the troupe to run the hall, diners can watch the theater while tasting the food. Those slightly smaller than halls were called restaurants or taverns. Smaller than halls and buildings, they were called residences. For example, Tongheju, Guangheju, Enchengju, Wanfuju and Fuxingju. Tongheju in these pavilions can be called the top of the Lu cuisine.