First built in 1901, the Tianjin Qishilin Restaurant is a comprehensive medium-sized restaurant. It was established by Qishilin, who came from West Germany, and featured with western-style meal, western-style cakes, bread, candies and coffee Right now, the fixed assets of Qishilin Restaurant amount to 50 million yuan, with 550 staffs (among them, 220 have gained above third-class title for technical, 18 have gained grand titles.) The restaurant now possesses a production & working area of 20600 square meters, 24 net-work stations, 60 chain stores. The annual sales income is 30 million yuan, and the profit & tax 2 million yuan. Now Qishilin Restaurant provides customers with Russian, German, English, French, Ltalian-styled dishes, together with Wuxi-styled Chinese food. Among them, various traditional dishes are served here, for example, milk shrimp, milk erabshell, Jewish beef, German sour fish, Russian soup, French seafood, oysters, butter fried chickens, English apple pie, chocolate Sand, Cream Musi, ice-cream, coffee, and milk shake, together with western style cakes, cool or hot beverage, candies, coffee, bread, biscuit, seasonal mooncake, and sweet dumpling. The Qishilin Restaurant is a comprehensive one, which takes food and beverage, food processing, sale and services in one.
After liberation in 1949, Qiashilin Restaurant has hosted many guests in fields, from over 100 countries. Bush, the former President of the U.S, had been here 6 times. Wudan, ex-Secretary General of the UN has been here. During the 1950's, the respected senior state leaders, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, He Long had also visited Qishilin Restaurant.