The origin of Beijing Ghost Street

"Beijing Ghost Street", also known as "Guijie", is the name that Beijing people call the restaurant street in Dongzhimen, Dongcheng District.

Guijie Street starts from the west end of Dongzhimen Overpass of Second Ring Road in the east and ends at the east end of Jiaodaokou East Street in the west. On this 1,442-meter-long Dongnei Street, there are more than 150 commercial shops of various types along the street, including 148 catering services, accounting for more than 90% of all shops on Dongnei Street.

Due to the formation of the hot market, Ghost Street has become a household name in Beijing. Of course, many people have also seen the huge business opportunities here. However, the word ghost is not elegant after all, so the capable people of the Dongcheng District Committee thought hard about changing the name of the ghost street. Someone discovered that there was this "簋" with the same sound and different characters in the dictionary, and it could also be related to food, so they started It was highly publicized and a large bronze statue of "Gui" was built at the bridge end of the Ghost Street side of Dongzhimen Overpass, so this civilized "Gui Street" came into being.

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Guijie became Beijing’s “Sunshine Catering” demonstration district

On November 21, 2017, Guijie appeared in the first batch of “Sunshine Catering” demonstration blocks of the Beijing Catering Industry Association. In the list of "Sunshine Catering" demonstration streets (districts), the Beijing Catering Industry Association awarded 53 first batch of demonstration districts including Guijie Street.

The Secretary-General of the Beijing Catering Industry Association introduced that the "Sunshine Catering" demonstration neighborhoods were evaluated on the basis of the "Sunshine Catering" concentrated neighborhoods in Beijing. It will be carried out in accordance with the method of independent declaration by the neighborhood and centralized on-site review by experts. After evaluation, 53 blocks including Guijie Street and Nanluoguxiang met the assessment standards. The catering service units in the blocks all achieved "sunshine catering", the quantitative grading assessment reached good or above, and the treatment of oil smoke, odor and waste gas, and food waste met the standards.

"Sunshine Catering" achieves "information sunshine", "process sunshine" and "sunshine evaluation" by disclosing food safety information, displaying food processing operations, and accepting public evaluation, and transforms catering services from invisible to invisible. , the closed kitchen has been transformed into a "sunny kitchen", leaving food safety hazards nowhere to hide.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ghost Street

People's Daily Online - Guijie and others have become Beijing's "sunshine catering" demonstration neighborhoods