{"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":"
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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

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<\/svg><\/span>Sylvia Wu and actor Dustin Nguyen attend the California Institute for Cancer Research’s 1988 Epicurean Gala.<\/span> Photograph: Ron Galella Collection\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She immediately regretted closing the restaurant in 1998, and opened Madame Wu’s Asian Bistro & Sushi. That restaurant didn’t last but affection for Wu persisted. When she turned 100 in 2014, her old customers filled up a hotel ballroom for her birthday party.<\/p>\n

Born Sylvia Cheng on 24 October 1915, Wu grew up in Jiujiang, a city south-west of Shanghai where she learned to cook while watching the maid prepare meals for her well-to-do family.<\/p>\n

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The family moved to Shanghai and then Hong Kong. During the second world war she took an ocean liner to New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know how I had the courage,\u201d she later recalled. \u201cI had no family in America. The trip took 40 days, and because of the war there was a blackout all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

While pursuing an education degree at Columbia University, she met King Yan Wu, a successful chemist. They married, had three children and moved to LA, where he took an engineering job at Hughes Aircraft Co and she became a restaurateur.<\/p>\n

Wu also wrote cookbooks, appeared regularly on television and became active with charity work, particularly at City of Hope cancer center after her daughter, Loretta, died of breast cancer aged 34.<\/p>\n

Wu is survived by her sons George and Patrick and numerous grandchildren, according to the LA Times. Her husband died in 2011. The two had been married 67 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. 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 …<\/p>\n

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