Qunyinlou, Shanshuilou, Suyang Restaurant, Dogfu Baozi, Glutinous Rice Fragrance, Yangjia Hanging Hearth Cake, Siyunlou Roasted Chicken and other nearly 10 "old" catering enterprises returned to Tianjin Street. The old carry the glory and dreams of the city's development, cohesion of several generations of motivation, struggle, but the city's changes also let the old undergo a test .

Built store has been 98 years Qunying floor is the city's only one was named by the Ministry of Commerce, "China's old" catering enterprises, nearly a century of history, Qunying floor had written a brilliant. 2002, with the renovation of the Tianjin Street, the Qunying floor for a variety of reasons, closed down the store so far. Qunyinglou Food Co., Ltd. Chairman Yan Jianping said that over the years, they have not given up to reopen the store, but for various reasons difficult. Now, the Zhongshan District Government to give rent and other aspects of strong support, so that Yan Jianping Qunying floor reopened with great confidence. But he also believes that: "old snacks is a micro-profit industry, in the absence of relevant policy support, it is difficult to withstand the high rent in the core business district. Enterprises can not always lie on the government to support policies. But open easy to keep the business is difficult, with the current Tianjin Street inch of land prices, the policy support period, Qunyinglou how to do a good job of business, will be old to keep going, is a very important issue."

"The old can not be dependent on government support, in the final analysis, or to survive in the market, rather than be protected to the museum." Chou Xixiang, chairman of Dalian Nuomi Xiang Foods Co Ltd and Dalian Dogfu Hotel, said the old firms also need to keep up with the times. There are more than 50 years of history of glutinous rice in the maintenance of tradition at the same time also trying to innovate, such as the innovative production of sticky cake with the production of "birthday cake", "wedding cake", etc., and its shelf life of 90 days after the QS certification. The old restaurant is very familiar with the day of the hundred head of food Zhao Yumin, Qunying Lou, Shanshui Lou and other old restaurant enterprises, on the one hand, to invite back the old chef, to make the old food flavor, but also to the modern generally reflected "oil and water," Dalian, the old dishes improved to suit the tastes of modern people.

Tianjin Street, the old street project for the planning of investment is the world's top 500 companies CB Richard Ellis, its Dalian commercial services manager Zhang Nan on the many old back to the old street project is very optimistic, "We will Tianjin Street, the old street project is positioned as a backyard of the People's Road CBD, the People's Road lack of food and beverage and entertainment projects, the old street project just to make up for the shortcomings of the people's road working 80s and 90s, the old street project is a good idea to make up for this shortcoming, the old street project, the old street project is a good example. People's Road working 80s and 90s young people may not be familiar with Dalian's old restaurant culture, the old street can just let them go to understand Dalian's food culture." Zhang Nan said.

The Zhongshan District government's initiative to support the return of the old to Tianjin Street has been met with a wide range of opinions from industry insiders. Many of the rejected foreign fast food even said that when the old will not be able to maintain a comeback. In the end, whether the old in the government support to revitalize the past, need to wait and see. It is understood that Tianjin Street, the old street project covers an area of 13,000 square meters, commercial construction area of 18,000 square meters, in addition to the construction area of 3,500 square meters of the Golden Cinema, the rest of the catering industry.