Taiping Koon Western Restaurant Description

Potentially one of the oldest 'Western-style' restaurants in all of China, Taiping Koon was started in 1885 during the late-Qing dynasty by a chef who had been employed in the kitchens of a foreign firm on Shamian Island. He decided to give the everyday people of Guangzhou a taste of the new Western cooking styles he learned and a legend was born. 

Today, diners can still sample distinctly Cantonese takes on supposedly Western classics, like Taiping Koon's signature saucy steaks and braised fatty pigeon, in the restaurant's storied halls.