The Woman Who Changed Chinese Cuisine in America

my name is Cecilia chan people said I bought Chinese food to America during both French sincere Legend birth Chinese [Music] this is all my sisters sesame in 1959 I came to San Francisco visiting my sister Sophie to live the edge of China the first time I noticed the food I said is this a Chinese food my sister say yes I look at the venue chopsy egg foo young I'm already born near Shanghai and I said I don't remember we tasted any of this in China so my sister said this is American Chinese food I decided I want to introduce my Chinese food to USA I opened the bedroom on 1960. this is mainly with the mayor of Moscone the customers said oh my goodness the food tastes a total different a lot of dishes and we never seen before we had hot and sour soup the letters called the pot sticker picking up I was the first one served in San Francisco I didn't create that but I introduced that to American and now everybody has it I met Alice who are nice she came to the Mandarin and one thing another I'm a hunger I'm Alice Waters and I'm the owner of chepenney's restaurant I've known Cecilia almost 50 years it's done it's a serious restaurant was incredibly important and so many people came there and learned and opened Chinese restaurants or taught cooking you want the ginger juice [Music] so this way all the juice come out her food is very delicious and if it is a little strange she'll tell you a story about it and you'll want to try it every time I have a meal with Cecilia I learned something I don't get all the credit but I think I did something people always say you put this in the menu I think Americans don't like it I said cook food is cool full doesn't matter you are American and Chinese you feel good food I think everybody would like it don't you see [Music] [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

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Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, Cecilia Chiang, Cecilia, The Mandarin, Alice Waters, friendship, chinese, chinese food, french food, julia child, influence, women, women chefs, apahm, cuisine, chef, kitchen, san francisco, Food & Drink, Biography & Profile, Cali, California, Foodie

Id: 8oQzaS6-Z3I

Length: 3min 20sec (200 seconds)

Published: Tue May 01 2018