Celeste Imperio
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Celeste Imperio is a famous Chinese restaurant in El Salvador. It was founded in 1994 and served as one of the pillars of modern Chinese food in this small Central American country. The most attractive characteristic of this Chinese restaurant is it Chinese style fachade, which resembles those of an ancient Chinese palace. To date this is the only Chinese style fachade in El Salvador. Famous dishes from this restaurant are chao mein, cantonese style rice, chapsuey and fried wantan. Many of this dishes flavour and style were modified to suit the taste buds of salvadorians.
[edit] Origins
Celeste Imperio was founded in 1994. The cooking style of Celeste Imperio is based on the cantonese style tradition from the small town Jiu Jiang (九江) of the Guandong province. However, seeing the need of making chinese food appealing to salvadorians, the restaurant modified some of their cooking styles, naming it Chinese-Salvadorian. Eventhough, modification were made these were few, the dishes still has the distinction of cantonese style cooking. Many salvadorians were attracted to the taste of this new hybrid cooking style and made Celeste Imperio their favourite place for a family dinner or lunch. Later on, as year passed many other Chinese restaurants like Dragon Dorado, Royal, Diamante de China and Mandarin Garden resembled the Chinese-Salvadorian cooking style. Celeste Imperio is located at Nueva San Salvador, Ave.Boqueron.
