Cantonese cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines, is a business card of Guangzhou and even Guangdong. Named after "Guangzhou", the famous Guangzhou Restaurant was founded in 1935, and has become a famous restaurant in the history of Chinese food and beverage industry, from the legend of the King of Kitchen to the popularity of Guangzhou to the ups and downs of the restaurant, and now it is still alive and well.

The 1930s, Xiguan restaurants, fierce competition. In the former Guangfu South Road business "Yingji" tea shop businessman Chen Xinghai, he fell in love with the junction of Wenchang Road and Shangshangjiu a piece of land, plans to open a restaurant. According to the custom of the old Xiguan people open store business, this position facing west, north of Wenlan Academy of the pavilion house, around the money changers, gold stores, merchants inns and sour sticks home furniture stores, rich merchants, Xiguan broad young and famous girls gathered, is an advantageous position of the Dragon's mouth. This piece of business treasure, after a few twists and turns, finally got his hands on, that is, the implementation of its ambition to build a restaurant. Chen Xing Hai conformed to the "bucket three deaths" of the "feng shui" pattern, restaurant facing southwest, named Southwest Restaurant (predecessor of the Guangzhou Restaurant). With such an excellent location, half of the success of the Guangzhou Restaurant had already been realized.

Today, the 80-year-old Xiguan restaurant has become a large-scale catering enterprise group that includes a large food production base, high-class restaurants, and dozens of chain food shopping malls, and is one of the top ten in the national food and beverage industry, and has been awarded the honorary title of "China's Oldest Brand" and "Top Ten Restaurants in China".