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Madame wu's garden restaurant menu.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvia Wu, whose famed Southern California restaurant drew Hollywood's biggest stars for four decades, has died at age , according to.Sylvia Wu
Chinese-American restaurateur and cookbook author (1915–2022)
Sylvia Wu (née Cheng; Chinese: 伍鄭鏡宇;[1] October 24, 1915 – September 29, 2022) was a Chinese-American restaurateur, philanthropist, and cookbook writer.
She ran Madame Wu's Garden on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1998. She later briefly opened Madame Wu's Asian Bistro & Sushi. She wrote Madame Wu's Art of Chinese Cooking in 1973.
Madame wu restaurant
Personal life
Wu was born October 24, 1915, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China.[2][3][4] Her parents died when she was young and she was raised by her paternal grandfather, a well-to-do man who owned a department store and a bank.[5] They later moved to Shanghai and then Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong she helped to raise funds for the relief of Chinese people in Japanese-occupied China. In the process she met King Yan Wu (伍競仁Wǔ Jìngrén), whose grandfather and father were high officials in the Republic of China