The story
Chui Lo Ko (Chinese: 徐老高) established it in 1860 as a restaurant serving Western cuisine, modified to suit the tastes of Chinese customers, in Canton (Guangzhou). 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 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.
In 2016, it had restaurants in Central, Causeway Bay, and Kowloon, which were four in total.
Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Chow Yun-fat, and Ho Chi Minh ate at least one of the outlets of Tai Ping Koon. Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao held their wedding reception at the Guangzhou location in 1925, and the restaurant continued to advertise the menu served at that event as of 2020. HK Magazine in 2016 ranked it as #8 of "Hong Kong's 10 Most Iconic Restaurants".
From Wikipedia’s article on Tai Ping Koon Restaurant, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3