The series of selection activities of "Famous Shops, Famous Teachers and Famous Dishes" organized by datong catering and hotel industry association came to an end, and 26 restaurants, 30 chefs and 71 dishes in Datong City were selected as famous shops, famous teachers and famous dishes in Datong City. Finally, Datong Hotel, Mei Xiangchun Hotel, Datong VIP Building Hotel, Yonghe Hongqi Food City, Laoye Temple Flavor Restaurant, Hongya Hotel, Yonghe Wenying Hotel, Garden Hotel, Juxingyuan Casserole House, Hongqi Hotel, Huangcheng No. 1, Tianyuan Northern Wei Family Banquet, Deyuelou Hotel, KaiGe Restaurant, Haohai International Hotel, Yungang Jianguo Hotel, Gulou East Street Old Hotpot Yunjinhui, SunJi Bun Group Company, Weidu International Hotel, Yungang MGT Hotel, Shangpin Yuquan Mulan Restaurant, Howard Johnson Gemdale Hotel, State Guest Hotel , Wangfu Supreme Hotel, New Matai Hotel, Ma Daha Longjuxiang Catering Company and other hotels were selected as Datong catering famous restaurants; 30 chefs of Datong were selected as Datong catering masters; Datong Hotel's fresh yellow flower golden soup pepper chicken, Datong Sanbao steamed lamb, ground vegetable shrimp crystal package, Yonghe Hongqi Food City's waking soup beef pot, sauce smoked elbow, ground vegetables filling cake, Hongya Hotel's Hongya old altar meat, clear soup lion head, corn noodle small nest, Yonghe Wenying Hotel's copper pot stewed lamb, sauce braised fish, vegetarian stir-fried knife cut noodles, Garden Hotel's Pingcheng Luojin Phoenix, Royal Futan Boss, Puff pastry brown sugar cake, Hongqi Hotel's Madigou casserole lamb, Hongqi stewed chicken, roasted wheat three spells, pastoral Northern Wei family banquet's volcanic stone roast lamb, Datong bumper cake, coarse grain family portrait, Kai Pigeon Restaurant's sea cucumber oil meat, Kai Pigeon wind sand chicken and other 71 dishes were selected as the same dish, famous points.
Datong catering industry since ancient times enjoy a high reputation, according to the "ancient capital of Datong" record, at the end of the 1920s, Datong City has developed to more than 20 hotels, the famous jiusheng lou, zichengyuan, yunzhong hotel, yunshengyuan, Xinghuachun, Jinan village, etc., of which Jiushenglou is the largest. In the 1930s, JiushengLou was renamed "Chunhua Garden", and Fenglin Pavilion at that time had a number of famous chef dishes, such as Zhang Linquan's Hibiscus Swallow Dish, Lotus Shark Fin, Rich Braised Chicken, Fan Chengrong's Court Dim Sum, Puff Pastry Cake and so on.
In 1940, the number of hotels in Datong increased to more than 30, the best of which was the Yunzhong Hotel, a two-story Western-style building, where some large banquets were often held, and Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Bing Xin, and Zheng Zhenduo all dined here at the same time. By the 1950s, there were 53 large and small hotels in Datong City, the more famous of which were Xi Daoyi, Dong Lai Shun, Yun Sheng Yuan, Yi Xing Yuan and Xing Zhong Xuan. After 1960, because food stamps were required to buy food, going to a restaurant to eat became a more luxurious thing. At that time, the most famous hotels in Datong City were YingbinLou Hotel, HuifengLou Hotel, Zhengyi Hotel, Xingzhongxuan Hotel and Jincheng Hotel.
The popularity of coal business during the planned economy gave birth to the extraordinary development of Datong's catering industry, and by the 1980s, The Yingbin Hotel, Huayan Hotel, Datong Hotel, and Hongqi Hotel were famous in the surrounding provinces and cities. In the 1990s, the private catering industry of Datong, which rode the dust, had squeezed the state-run hotels out of the encirclement, and most of the transformation of coal bosses also threw themselves into the catering industry, and for a time famous stores emerged and competed for glory, while many famous chefs also competed with each other, including Zhang Linquan, Wu Wanku, Shen Hongbin, Yin Jiukui, Yao Jizhang, Xu Dengyun, Li Shoushan, Fan Chengrong, Dou Yicheng, Han Tingmao, Chang Yanru, Wu Dianshi, Lei Zhenming, Han Yushan, Wu Shizhong, Yu Lian, Zhang Qingxiang, Li Wenjing, Kong Xianzhen, Yao Guangyi, etc. Among them, wu dianshi's noodles are amazing, and French President Pompidou came to eat noodles at the Datong Hotel at the same time, such as "a nest of silk", which is made for it.