Cecilia Chiang
Cecilia Chiang was born in Wuxi, China. In the 1950s, she travelled to San Francisco, United States, where she opened The Mandarin restaurant; Chiang owned and operated the restaurant for thirty years, retiring in 1991. She was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and was the subject of filmmaker Wayne Wang's 2014 documentary Soul of a Banquet. In 2016, she appeared in the mini-series The Kitchen Wisdom of Cecilia Chiang.