{"id":85232,"date":"2022-10-03T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/madame-wu-famed-california-restaurateur-dies-at-106-food\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T02:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T02:27:15","slug":"madame-wu-famed-california-restaurateur-dies-at-106-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/madame-wu-famed-california-restaurateur-dies-at-106-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Wu, famed California restaurateur, dies at 106 | food"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sylvia Wu, whose famed southern California restaurant drew Hollywood’s biggest stars for four decades, has died at the age of 106, the LA Times reports.<\/p>\n
Madame Wu’s Garden on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica became a dining destination shortly after it opened in 1959, popular for its cuisine and pagoda-style decor featuring jade statues, a stone waterfall and a koi-filled fountain.<\/p>\n
Wu herself was known for wearing a floor-length silk gown while alternately greeting Hollywood’s elite and picking up the phone to take to-go orders. She died on 19 September.<\/p>\n
She was inspired to open the restaurant after arriving from China and finding only heavy faux-Cantonese dishes. \u201cChop suey everywhere,\u201d she complained to USA Today. \u201cAll you see are chop suey houses.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Madame Wu’s Garden, Mae West favored the cold melon soup, Gregory Peck and Paul Newman enjoyed the shrimp toast and crab puffs, while Princess Grace of Monaco preferred the Peking roast duck, according to the LA Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody in this town knows Madame Wu,\u201d the late television host Merv Griffin once told the newspaper. \u201cOne of the dearest, sweetest, most elegant women I’ve ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n