Chris Dwyer of the South China Morning Post described it as "one of the world’s oldest continually operating Chinese restaurants".
It became a solely Hong Kong franchise when the Canton location closed in 1956,[1] as the Chinese government confiscated private property.
By 2005, Hong Kong Tai Ping Koon manager Andrew Chui Shek-on took control of the restaurant.
[4] Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Chow Yun-fat, and Ho Chi Minh ate at least one of the outlets of Tai Ping Koon.
[1] 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[update].