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The Imperial Dynasty restaurant was a gourmet
restaurant A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearan ...
in
Hanford, California Hanford is a city and county seat of Kings County, California, located in the San Joaquin Valley region of the greater Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The population was 53,967 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History ...
. The restaurant was founded in 1883 in Hanford's
Chinatown A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Aust ...
, and was run by the same family for four generations, having started as a simple noodle house in the 19th century. Richard Wing combined French and Chinese cooking in the 1960s to create one of the first
fusion cuisine Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. They can occur naturally and become aspects of culturally relevant cuisines, or they can be part of ...
s. The restaurant closed in early 2006 due to the declining health of the owner, who died in 2010 at the age of 89.


China Alley

''China Alley'', where the restaurant was located, was listed as one of the 11 most endangered historic places in America in 2011 by the
National Trust for Historic Preservation The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States. The member-supported organization was founded in 1949 ...
.


See also

*
List of Chinese restaurants This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in th ...
* Taoist Temple (Hanford, California)


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visithanford.comPinotFile: End of an (Imperial) Dynasty
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