This Day, That Year

Founded in 1864 during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Quanjude is one of the country’s most renowned restaurants for roast duck.

The company became a corporate group in 1993.

The item from July 19, 1997, in China Daily showed a waiter introducing the history of Quanjude to customers at the opening day of its store at

This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up policy.

Beijing’s Qianmen Pedestrian Street.

The brand went public in 2007 on the Shenzhen bourse to support its goal of growing into an international brand.

It now operates more than 30 restaurants nationwide and has opened several franchised outlets outside China.

Food lovers can relish the prospect of Quanjude roast

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duck in many places, including Japan, Vietnam and Australia.

Besides Quanjude, fine Chinese restaurants have expanded their presence overseas.

Haidilao Hot Pot, a popular hotpot chain, plans to open a branch in London. The restaurant group, which was founded in Sichuan province in 1994, has 137 eateries across the country and others in Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Japan, according to its website.

Da Dong Roast Duck Res- taurant opened its first overseas restaurant in New

York in December.

Da Dong was founded in Beijing in 1985 and now has 10 outlets in the capital and four in Shanghai.

In 2016 when the French culinary bible Michelin published its guide for Shanghai, its first for a Chinese city, two of Da Dong’s branches in the city made the list with one star each, an honor they retained this year.