In 1988, in the second national cooking competition, Beiyuan"s "Yuye Qiong Cup" won the gold medal, and the dim sum "lotus paste thousand layer crisp" and "Cherry Phoenix Nest" won silver and bronze medals respectively. In 1997, "fried spring rolls with shredded chicken" and "Yuye barbecued bun" produced by Beiyuan restaurant were recognized as the first "Chinese famous snack" by China Cuisine Association.

After Zou Dianbang"s grandfather retired, he built a villa in the northern suburb of Guangzhou, which is commonly known as the old North Garden. The villa is quiet and located on the main road. It is suitable to open restaurants. Zou Dianbang and some bureaucrat wives raised money to set up Beiyuan restaurant here. At that time, it mainly served wine, dishes and banquets, mainly for military and political figures, merchants, literati and scholars. In 1938, the Japanese army occupied Guangzhou, and Beiyuan was declared closed. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Yang Renfu, the former staff member of Beiyuan, together with Chen Zhaotang, the former business director of Beiyuan, Liu Su, and Huang Zhuting, etc., formed a Hede company to rebuild Beiyuan restaurant and invite most of the original staff back. The dishes of the reconstructed Beiyuan restaurant have three flavors of chicken, namely, fried, stewed, stewed, fried, fried, boiled, boiled, boiled, and soup. Customers can choose three of them, hence the name. In 1953, the national economy recovered, the market flourished, and the business flourished again. After the implementation of the public-private joint venture in 1956, Zhu Guang, mayor of Guangzhou, came to Beiyuan and proposed the expansion plan. In 1957, it was invested by the state and expanded into the first garden restaurant with Lingnan Garden characteristics in Guangzhou. The signboard of "North Garden" written by Zhu Guang is embedded on the lintel of the gate of "Qixiu tower". In the summer of 1958, Liang Sicheng, a famous educator and architect, held a symposium with the teachers and students of Chinese workers in the library of the Architectural Department of South China Institute of technology. Luo mingjiong, then president of South China Institute of technology, and Chen Boqi, director of the Department of architecture, all participated in the symposium. Lin Zhaozhang, who was studying in the Department of architecture at that time, asked, "Mr. Liang, which building in Guangzhou do you appreciate most?" Liang Sicheng answered without hesitation: "Beiyuan restaurant." He believed that the newly completed Beiyuan restaurant was an excellent work with a strong local style and integrated architecture and garden environment.