Before 1984, the store was located at the north entrance of Xisi South Street. On the door hangs a plaque titled "Tongheju" by Mr. Pu Jie. Later moved to Sanlihe Yuetan South Street. The new store has a business area of 500 square meters, consisting of a hall and three KTV rooms around the hall, including Tianhe, Dihe and Renhe, equipped with first-class sound, diverse functions and comfortable environment. It can receive three hundred people to dine at the same time, and can provide venues for all kinds of cultural performances, competitions and celebrations. Re-opened with the residence restaurant, in order to meet the needs of guests from all sides, absorbing the essence of other dishes, additional live fish, shrimp, crabs, frogs, snakes and other raw materials for customers to choose from. Its cooking of steamed eel, cassoulet or steamed Yuan fish, three snakes (skin fried, bone soup, meat fried colorful snake silk), with oil explosion, Gong Bao, iron plate burning techniques such as cooking of bullfrogs, Xiulong eel, sweet and sour crispy fish and so on have been favored by customers. When mentioning Tongheju, old Beijingers used to add three words in front of it: "Xisi's". Indeed, since the founding of the restaurant in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Tongheju has been based on No. 3 South Street of Xisi, leaving solid footprints on this piece of land step by step like a trekker. The Tongheju, which opened its doors a hundred years ago, is a standard classical Chinese courtyard, with an exquisite two-story wooden building and elegant seats upstairs, each of which is decorated with poems by Li Bai and Du Fu, and overlooks Fuchengmen Street. There is a story about this small building, in the early years of Donghuamen, Xihuamen three miles or so are not allowed to build buildings, so as not to overlooking the inner court, the same and the residence of the back of the building just outside the scope of the Empress Dowager Cixi driving summer summer vacation in the Summer Palace, the phoenix carriage through the west of Fuchengmen Street, the corner of the building can be just to look at the right, so as long as the Empress Dowager went to the West Mountain summer vacation, with the same and the residence of the upper floor of the elegant seats will be booked empty.

The old store was carved with the words "Tongheju" on the right-hand wall of the front hall, which was very exquisite; the kitchen was in the front hall, and the guests dined in the backyard, while the VIPs went to the elegant seats on the second floor, and the ordinary guests were seated in the hall. l In 1985, a large-scale renovation was carried out in the old courtyard, and the area of the business was greatly expanded, and there were more than 10 elegant seats only. There are more than ten rooms, the entire building's exterior are embedded in teal glass, quite eye-catching, hanging on the lintel of Aisin Gioro Pu Jie personally inscribed "with the residence" plaque - this is today's reporter followed the records to the South Street, Xisi No. 3, when the small building seen.

Unfortunately, the former Tongheju site has been surrounded by blue construction boards and will soon be demolished. Although it is about to disappear from the map, old diners will keep the memories that are saddened by the prosperity: in the 1970s and 1980s this old building was full of people and crowds day after day. During that period, every day from the afternoon, all the seats, including the elegant seats, were no longer open to the public, because they were all fully booked. After nightfall, foreigners with blonde hair and blue eyes often gathered in the elegant seats, while the outer hall was filled with their drivers. After the old location was expanded in 1985, the limitations of the location were revealed. Although Xisi is undoubtedly a commercial treasure, Tongheju was located at an intersection with extremely limited parking, and business inevitably declined.In the 1990s, Tongheju moved from its century-old location to No. 78, B, Yuetan South Street, Sanlihe, where the new store had a large open area in front of the entrance that could accommodate dozens of cars.

The new store is divided into two floors, the lower floor does not have a table, only a counter to sell small cakes and delicatessen food. On the second floor, a cover head is Pu Jie inscribed plaque - from the West Fourth original moved here. The entire dining room with red and yellow color as the main tone, seems elegant and comfortable. In the same and home work for more than 30 years, the teacher told reporters that the scale here is far smaller than the West Fourth, but the layout of the decoration is very thoughtful, each seat with a karaoke 0K, the guests eat, but also to sing.

The old Tongheju has become a new wave of stores, I'm afraid that only the famous "three do not stick" is ancient. Dinner time, the hall almost every table guests will point to this famous dish, but it reminds the reporter of the same and the residence of another dessert - mixed sugar steamed buns, good to know how to eat the old Beijing know, when the same and the residence of mixed sugar steamed buns half a catty a, the fame is not inferior to the "three do not stick! It was not less famous than "Three Sticky Buns". Every day at noon a drawer, attracting people from the north and south of the city rushed to buy.

Now the new store on the table plates and dishes are also popular, while in the past the same and the residence used to contain containers are much more sophisticated, usually a full set of "Wanshou Wujian", noble and elegant. In the past, the guests' favorite "spicy fish with vermicelli" and "steamed Pan fish" were served in very unique containers called "fish ponds", with the whole plate in the shape of a fish, as deep as the index finger, but now this kind of peculiar plate is no longer visible. The whole plate was in the shape of a fish, as deep as the index finger, but now this kind of peculiar plate is no longer visible. The disappearance of the above two famous dishes is largely due to the loss of the vessel. "Vermicelli and Spicy Fish" is a soup dish with golden color, tender fish meat, soft and moist vermicelli skin, also decorated with red chili peppers, bright and colorful. "Steamed Pan fish" in the history of Beijing and Ren Cai (i.e., "race crab"), river tofu, the inventor of its social celebrity at the time Pan Bingnian, this person one day had a sudden idea, suggesting that the same and the residence of the chef to try the "goat jelly Cooking fish", really delicious and unusual, known as the "drop of oil does not stick, fish whole soup clear, eat in the mouth light and fresh, soft and tender". Unfortunately, nowadays diners can only use the addiction of words to savor them mentally. After two weeks of interviews, from Dong Lai Shun to the Imitation Cuisine Restaurant, it seems that the story of each old shop's establishment is born out of the same mold, so Tong He Ju didn't bring me any more surprises at this point than it did in the previous installments!

The ideal of a well-established Kyoto restaurant that seems to have the right roots, the right wealth, and the right kind of sky and sea has long since been subverted by the facts that contradict it.

All the roads in the world are narrow at the entrances, and this is the most appropriate phrase to apply to Beijing's old shops. For example, no one knows today's Dong Lai Shun, initially just a cart pulling loess transformed into a mobile restaurant; the Palace Imperial Banquet heir to the Beihai imitation food, started out as a small tea house; as for the same and the house, the original old customers are some of the hardworking people, such as pulling a camel to transport coal, horse traders, donkey dealers, butcher shopkeeper even the richest. The same with the residence to earn a small profit, business conditions are barely maintained, but they are covered with the struggle of the meridian, this beating day and night, tireless, as if "hard work and enterprise" was born on their forehead, full of veins, blood, is an inherent talent. They also adhered to the proper virtues, they make money with harmony, truthfulness, trust in all sides of the "care of the Lord" "no business is not treacherous" is only a kind of modern summary of the bad habits of unfair competition, but far from the rational market acquiescence of the traits), businessmen and goods. Double quality assurance is the open secret of the entrepreneurial pioneers who eventually flourished and put up their own signboards.

After walking through the narrow and bumpy road of hard work, small bosses are faced with new choices: whether to continue to maintain the essence of simplicity, resting on thin profits, long-term development; or to send the poor people far away, to set up their own big store posture; or even to borrow the famous name of the play tricks, counterfeiting and watering, to make the most of short-term interests? At this point, another saying - "take a road, not just any road" - implies the truth in these early development, accumulated a certain amount of seed money, the founder of the old firms and had accumulated some seed money. In the end, those who did not have their own name, their own store and forget about it, nor because the store is big and bully customers, secretly operating jerry-building a group of civilian entrepreneurs along the front of the road down firmly, to withstand the test of time and the market, to become today's classic old signboards. And some stores, pinned without a trace.

Maybe some people think, business can be from the stall to open a big business, must be Beijing native "snake", occupy the advantage of people and. But in fact, many of the old entrepreneurs are outsiders. For example, Jiangsu man Zhang Senlong opened Taoxiang Pounding, Fujian man Lin Zidan's Qinglin Chun, and of course, Shandong man Mou's family's Tongheju. The outsiders are more hard-working, they have put in more effort and hard work than ordinary people can imagine, and success is just the right reward for their unremitting efforts.

Witnessing the step-by-step development and growth of these unheard-of vendors and hawkers are the holy places of commerce in old Beijing, which, like all-encompassing eyes, not only witnessed the history of each business, but also sorted out the veins of commerce in old Beijing as a whole, such as Xisi where the old Tongheju lived. Xisi became a commercial point for buying and selling in the Ming Dynasty - at that time, it was as overstretched and poorly furnished as the small traders who had just started their businesses. Later, Xisi really became a bustling commercial street, because at that time the necessities of people's lives must be transported from the suburbs into the city, and Xisi is located in the main road, the transportation is well-connected, so the horse, pig, goat, these hot commodities on the market at that time have to be traded in this. The prosperity of the market trade, directly driven by the catering industry, the service industry boom, many vendors are also taking advantage of this time to start a business or to get a long development, with and residence is also one of the natural. When the vendors after hard work, establish a name, step by step until the reputation spread far and wide, Xisi is also maturing, from the transaction distribution center, lively commercial street, and eventually become the center of the commercial network of Beijing.

History is fair, so is the market, and the opportunities are almost equal. Hawkers into greatness may not be news, and so many old hard-earned stories for today's far-reaching revelations, we can not be shallow.