Yao Zesheng is the owner of the Tongde Silver Company, who has invested 5,000 dollars to support one of the capital's "eight buildings", Xinfenglou Restaurant, and opened the Fengzeyuan Restaurant.

Fung Chak Yuen is a famous old enterprise in China and abroad, it is a newly expanded hotel with international three-star level on the basis of the original Fung Chak Yuen Restaurant, with unique architectural style, advanced equipment, luxurious and elegant decoration, and all kinds of facilities, equipped with central air-conditioning, escalators, underground parking lot, etc., the hotel is conveniently accessible, and it is a multi-functional unit combining catering, lodging, entertainment, and shopping. It is a multifunctional foreign-related organization integrating catering, accommodation, entertainment and shopping.

At that time, Fengzeyuan Dining Hall was a large dining hall with four courtyards, green halls and tiled houses, and a fine decoration of the facade, elegant environment and chic style. Dining room seats according to the seasonal replacement, winter velvet and summer rattan; countertops with innovative design, surrounded by inlaid silver; tableware is a clear silver, and colorful flowers of the Kangxi, Qianlong, Guangxu years of wine, very expensive.

The restaurant opened on the upper echelons of the people as the object of service, employing a famous chef spoon, the dishes selected materials fine, fine production, color, taste and aroma, to become the capital of the dignitaries, society, celebrities, a good place to go. Therefore, business is very prosperous. By the end of the 1930s, Fengzeyuan had developed into the largest and most famous restaurant in the capital.

Because of the booming business, Fengzeyuan successively opened branches in Yantai, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Kaifeng and other places. Luan Xuedang, the founder of Fengzeyuan, Shandong hometown also to "Fengze" as the name, in Hong Kong, Paris and other places to open restaurants, some called Fengze building, some called Fengze garden. For a while, the fame of Fengzeyuan was not only known in Beijing, but also overseas.

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