Ma_yu_ching\\\'s_bucket_chicken_house

Ma Yu Ching\'s Bucket Chicken House, located in Kaifeng, China, is by some accounts the world\'s oldest restaurant.Unfortunately, the lack of verifiable documentation has kept this restaurant from being officially recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records It allegedly opened for business during the Jin Dynasty in 1153 AD.Stephens, John Richard, Weird History 101, p. 127 Having survived numerous wars, invasions, and dynasty changes, it still offers takeout food.

Despite its reputation, it is known that restaurants existed in Kaifeng before 1153, since there is documentation of them during the Northern era (960–1127) of the Song Dynasty.Gernet, 133–134.

See also

• Culture of the Song Dynasty
• Bianyifang
• Quanjude

Footnotes

References

• Gernet, Jacques (1962). Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276. Translated by H. M. Wright. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0720-0

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