The time-honored brands in Tianjin are:

1. Guifaxiang: Originated in 1937, founded by brothers Fan Guicai and Fan Guilin. At that time, they opened a twist shop "Guifaxiang" and "Guifacheng" on Dagu South Road in Tianjin.

The special feature is that the twists are filled with an assorted crisp stick composed of more than a dozen ingredients such as peach kernels, green plums, and sweet-scented osmanthus. When the public-private partnership was implemented in 1956, the two stores merged and were renamed "Gui Faxiang Mahua Shop" after taking the "Gui" from the main seasoning "Osmanthus".

2. Guishunzhai: It is famous for selling all kinds of halal pastries. It was founded by Liu Zhen, a Hui nationality, in 1924. It is a time-honored halal pastry shop with a history of 80 years. Guishunzhai was originally a store in front and a factory in the back, producing and selling its own products. The palace pastries produced such as Saqima, Honey Mahua, Mi Gong and Pai Cha have excellent color, aroma and taste and have become the specialty pastries of the store.

Peking opera master Ma Lianliang and cross talk master Ma Sanli often bought Guishunzhai’s pastries. After liberation, Guishunzhai became three sales departments and two workshops. In 1981, in order to better create time-honored brand-name products. Guishunzhai merged the two workshops and established the Guishunzhai Pastry Factory, forming a layout of one factory and five sales departments.

3. Nut Kernel Zhang is a time-honored Chinese brand. Its nut products have a history of more than 160 years and is one of the specialties of Tianjin. There are many kinds, such as amber peanut kernels, amber walnut kernels, tiger skin peanut kernels, clean-flavor peanut kernels, milk-flavored melon seed kernels, spiced pine nut kernels and other high-quality products.

Guoren Zhang has a history of more than 160 years. The first generation Zhang Mingchun and the second generation Zhang Weishun worked as cooks in the imperial kitchen of the Qing Palace, specializing in frying various snacks. They were praised by the emperor and the Queen Mother. It was then known as a palace snack.

After liberation, the clean-flavor peanut kernels, glass walnut kernels, tiger skin peanut kernels and other varieties fried by the third generation Zhang Huishan were rated as excellent foods at the 1956 Tianjin Food and Beverage Commercial High-Quality Variety Exhibition. , participated in the Botswana International Expo.

4. Tianjin Roast Duck Restaurant: formerly known as "Zhengyang Chun Duck Restaurant", it was founded in 1862. In 1935, Zhengyangchun opened near the bustling Quanyechang and was named because the main entrance faced the sun.

It is said that in the early years, Zheng Chun, a Beijing roast duck master, came to Tianjin to make a living and settled in Tianjin. He built a shop with a door of less than 100 square meters facing east in a muddy and empty place to sell roast duck. Because it faces the front of Haofeng, the entire store is bathed in sunshine every morning, and even in the cold winter, the store is still warm as spring. One day, Master Zheng Chun had a sudden idea. He added the word "Yang" in the middle of his name to make the name "Zhengyangchun" homophonic, which is like the unity of heaven and man.

Since then, the business of "Zhengyangchun" has been booming and it has become famous far and wide. With the changes of the times, "Zhengyangchun" changed owners in November 1935. In the same year, a two-story building covering an area of ??122 square meters was built on the original site and was renamed "Zhengyangchun Duck Building". Therefore, later generations used to regard this as the first year of building a store.

5. Dafulai: A time-honored brand founded in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and returned to Beijing on his way to Tianjin. He passed by shopkeeper Zhang’s pancake shop. He first tasted the pancake roll with green onions, and then ordered the soup. . In her eagerness, the hostess tore the pancakes into pieces, added salt, sesame oil, and coriander, and washed them with boiling water before serving them. While drinking and eating, Qianlong felt that the pancakes tasted better once soaked in them, so he asked the hostess her name and she said Guo Ba.

When Qianlong heard this, he said with a smile: "Guoba cannot be called soup. We should add the word 'dish'." A few days later, shopkeeper Zhang just opened the door to accept customers, and an imperial minister The guard rushed in and shouted: "Your great blessing has come!" With that, he put down the two hundred taels of silver rewarded by the emperor. "Dafulai Crispy Rice Cake" became famous.