authentic.
The tipping point came when, in 1961, the now 94-year-old Cecilia Chiang opened a restaurant in San
Francisco. A documentary on her life has been touted over the weekend at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Miami.
Meet the top chef who brought authentic Chinese food to America - Ninety-four-year-old Cecilia Chiang is at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Miami for a documentary centred on her journey to the country.
Chiang still remembers Chinese food in the U.S. when she first arrived.
"Pretty bad. It's all chop suey. And that's really not Chinese food," Chiang said. "And so at that time I decided I really have to do something, try to educate Americans and tell them what is the real Chinese food."
"Today, a little bit better. It's not that much better. I think some people always think Chinese food should be cheap.
When it's cheap, you don't get good ingredients. How could you produce good food? So that's very hard," she
added.
Cecilia Chiang brought authentic Chinese food to America.
The movie, "Soul of a Banquet" by Wayne Wang Productions, details Chiang's early life in China, her family
tragedy after moving to the U.S. and her experience as a businesswoman.
Oddly enough, she never cooked until she was raising her two children with her husband and decided to open a
restaurant in San Francisco.
"I'm not a cook at all, then after I came to this country I of course could not afford to have cook. So I started to learn how to cook. Started with rice, making rice and soup and then cook the meals for two of my children," she said.
She said she never thought there would be a movie about her and her life, but her mission to educate the American public about Chinese food has been accomplished.
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