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Tai Ping Koon Restaurant (TPK, ) is a restaurant in
Tai Ping Koon
Interior shot of Tai Ping Koon Restaurant at Mau Lam Street in Yau Ma Tei. 14 September 2007
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Tai Ping Koon Restaurant (TPK, ) is a restaurant in Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
, with four branches located in said region in 2018. Chris Dwyer of the ''South China Morning Post
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'' described it as "one of the world’s oldest continually operating Chinese restaurants".
History
Chui Lo Ko () established it in 1860 as a restaurant servingWestern cuisine
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, modified to suit the tastes of Chinese customers, in Canton (Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
). Dwyer stated that it had a reputation as "a fine-dining restaurant" with famous people as customers. The Canton location occupied a four-storey facility.
The first Hong Kong location opened in Sheung Wan
Sheung Wan (Chinese: 上環) is an List of places in Hong Kong, area in Hong Kong, located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central, Hong Kong, Central and Sai Ying Pun. Administratively, it is part of the Central and Weste ...
in 1938. It became a solely Hong Kong franchise when the Canton location closed in 1956, as the Chinese government confiscated private property.
In Guangzhou, there is currently the Taiping Guan Restaurant. Dongjiang Restaurants began running the restaurant in 2003. By 2005, Hong Kong Tai Ping Koon manager Andrew Chui Shek-on took control of the restaurant.
In 2016, it had restaurants in Central, Causeway Bay
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, and Kowloon
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, which were four in total.
Sun Yat-sen
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, Chiang Kai-shek, Chow Yun-fat
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, and Ho Chi Minh
(born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the ...
ate at least one of the outlets of Tai Ping Koon. Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai ( zh, s=周恩来, p=Zhōu Ēnlái, w=Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 unti ...
and Deng Yingchao
Deng Yingchao (; 4 February 1904 – 11 July 1992) was the Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1983 to 1988, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and the wife of the first Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai.
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held their wedding reception at the Guangzhou location in 1925, and the restaurant continued to advertise the menu served at that event . ''HK Magazine
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'' in 2016 ranked it as #8 of "Hong Kong's 10 Most Iconic Restaurants".
Cuisine
Its dishes became known as "Soy Sauce Western" assoy sauce
Soy sauce (sometimes called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of China, Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermentation (food), fermented paste of soybeans, roasted cereal, grain, brine, and ''Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''A ...
is a key ingredient. The restaurant states that the dish Swiss wings originated from there. As of 2016, in all of the TPK restaurants, Swiss wings are the most common item among customers, and Dwyer stated that Swiss wings are "Arguably ai Ping Koon'smost famous dish."
References
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Interior shot of Tai Ping Koon Restaurant at Mau Lam Street in Yau Ma Tei. 14 September 2007
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