And of course Cecilia's son Philip Chiang founded the highly successful American-Chinese chain *_P.F. Chang's_* with Paul Fleming. Cecilia Chiang always seemed like a very pleasant, humble lady. RIP
My school was a block up the hill from Chinatown. I used to walk down there after school, poke around in shops, buy fried pork buns and almond cookies. I miss it so!
Huh? 95?! She still had full mental faculties and was active like this? Just mind-boggling. Wow...she lived her life to the fullest. 100 years of great stories. Amazing. RIP.
When you realize that her son Philip Chiang, also opened PF Chiang’s. Swear this lady was literally the reason This country has an obsession with Chinese. May God bless you and rest in peace 🕊
I'm a U.S. citizen currently residing in China. Students and friends have asked me if I liked Chinese food. I explained to them that I first ate in a Chinese restaurant when I was 12; it was in San Francisco. For many years, I've enjoyed countless Chinese restaurants in the States. I never tasted Chinese food until I came to China!
The way she screamed at that cook to dry the meat or it would burn; shows that she was a tough lady! She expected the best in her food and people! Respect given! It kept her young and vibrant! RIP Chef Cecilia 🙏🍜🙏😇
People should look at this... a rich lady who had maids and servants was willing to get her hands dirty and start her business and hold it even if it was not working out at first. When some poor people think they are too good to do manual labor. There was a video some time ago about the difficulties of getting work and a black person said no black person would pick fruit or dig holes.
@@temujinkhan6326 What are you trying to get at? I'm black and I worked as a gardener in college and I now operate 4 restaurants. I grow my own veggies n fruits. I learned how to cook after opening my first restaurant. I learned it from a chef I hired. Stop generalizing dude
@@ishmaelm1932 Repeating what a black person said in a interview... For the most part it's the truth. I worked for a black man from Nigeria. He hired some black americans to work and he told me afterwards he will never hire another black american man Again. By the way why is it ok for black people to generalize white america to be racist when percentage wise from racial population there is a higher percentage of black racism than white.
That lady staff at 3:24 looks so upset when she got told to dry the coriander 🙁 Nevertheless respect to all who worked in the back end of the restaurant. It's never easy
She's a Northerner, the Chinese food in the US is more Cantonese in the south, of course she wouldn't know fuyong egg, orange chicken. I recently found out about chop suey which agrees with my southern tastebuds
I would love to see a segment on Native American food! The original American food! Curious as to what it is... why aren’t there any restaurants? We see so many Native American casinos. Why not something their food ? I bet it’s closely related to Mexican food.
If you’re genuinely curious, I would look up Jakob Lazzaro. He interviewed someone who explained how the government systematically removed food systems from native Americans. Most indigenous people live on reservations, in land that has no irrigation and no viable soil to grow crops. Many live in poverty. Opening a restaurant is also really expensive and business loans are not easy to get. Where would you even get the collateral? I didn’t read the full interview transcript (it’s also on audio), but I think it also mentions a cultural reason, which is to keep their customs and traditions as something sacred. I could be totally wrong on this second point but I remember learning in high school that some indigenous people guarded themselves to a point where they didn’t even take photos of themselves or they lose a piece of their soul. Obviously times have changed on the issue of taking photographs but it could just be cultural preservation for themselves. Hopefully someday we do see more Native American cuisine in restaurants. I would love that. My high school collaborated with the Washoe people in Northern California. They were very kind people who shared a bit of their culture with us. I remember the fry bread was yummy!
I remember at the National Native American Museum in Washington D.C., they have a cafeteria serving indigenous foods from the Americas. Absolutely delicious, healthy, and ingredients were local to the culture. Sadly, we don't see actual restaurants due to the reasons @S L pointed out
Mexican food is not related to Native American food. They’re entirely distinct, and the techniques of preparation from the simple taco to the elaborate and complex mole are not remotely close to Native American but if you’re referring to ingredients, then I believe maize and squash play a big role in both cuisines and Mexican cuisine may have influenced Native American cooking.
She's cool, but their narrative is BS. She didn't bring "authentic" food, lol. The Chinese already in America are the ones who had created food all along, not non-Chinese. They adapted dishes using locally available ingredients, yet still with the aesthetic of THEIR Cantonese, Taishanese working class style. "Chop Suey" sounds silly, yes, but it's not far from simple home cooking of a Southern Chinese who has "odds and ends" to work with. "Egg Foo Young" is Cantonese fu jung dan (egg). Chiang comes from rich Shanghai living of half a century later and of course she isn't going to know that kind of food. So what she did was bring contemporary Northern Chinese food.
I wonder if those photos or copies of them of John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, etc. are posted in the Mandarin restaurant. That would be very interesting and historical to see.
This is Mao Ze dongs Chinese food. Prior to her there were the Taishanese or the Toisanese that were here before doing a very different style at home but didn’t have the same capital she had to make her restaurant. People like her thought the Toisanese were ghetto peasants.
I started to watch this and then Mo Rocca appeared and opened his annoying, phony, ingratiating mouth and I couldn’t watch the rest. It’s such a shame because the topic interested me. Oh, well. I’ll keep trying until he’s not the host of one of these! #MoGottaGo
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She passed away the day before this video was uploaded at 100 years old. Rest In Peace
May bless her .
Almost 111,000 views already (November 27) and counting. (117,803 views as of December 2nd, 2020)
and about 2 decades after her countries take over
@@jimboslice9472 not her country. She left China when It became the PRC in 1949.
And of course Cecilia's son Philip Chiang founded the highly successful American-Chinese chain *_P.F. Chang's_* with Paul Fleming.
Cecilia Chiang always seemed like a very pleasant, humble lady. RIP
PF Chang is garbage
@Pervy Sage I'm not a fan.
P.F. Chang food is lousy, not authentic and in the words of the Chinese " Tricking the Gweilos"
@@msbrownbeast yeah although, P.F. Chang food doesn’t taste that good at least his mother actually cooked great Chinese food
@@murkyevening Yes, no doubt. The mother just had it in her.
She is so strong and youthful. A true legend
Dude stop spying on me
@Cupid Stupid yeah
It's starting to get creepy honestly
Jesus you're everywhere
God bless you, Mrs. Chiang! You're cooking in Heaven with Leah Chase now.
@belly tripper ò
Beautiful lady, beautiful smile. RIP 😔💞
Wow, 100 years old. What a life well lived. RIP Mrs. Chiang. You've earned your rest.
I had to pause when he said "95"....... WHAT?!?!? She looks GREAT 😱
It’s the hair dye. 😂
She passed away recently at 100
@@LeGheyTrash what a legacy she had left for Americans, especially Chinese food. I hope she will be remembered!
You're lying and you know it.
She doesn't look a day over 105
my jaw dropped a lil, rest in peace
I love ‘Soul of A Banquet’. She was a great host and educator. May her soul find rest.
My school was a block up the hill from Chinatown. I used to walk down there after school, poke around in shops, buy fried pork buns and almond cookies. I miss it so!
Huh? 95?! She still had full mental faculties and was active like this? Just mind-boggling. Wow...she lived her life to the fullest. 100 years of great stories. Amazing. RIP.
When you realize that her son Philip Chiang, also opened PF Chiang’s. Swear this lady was literally the reason This country has an obsession with Chinese. May God bless you and rest in peace 🕊
I've eaten at the Mandarin twice. Once in 1973 and again in 1980. Fantastic both times! Great memories and I'm hungry now!
Such an infectious smile and brilliant human being... RIP💖
She looked like such a classy lady! Rest in peace Lady Chiang!
She was and still is beautiful.
I'm a U.S. citizen currently residing in China. Students and friends have asked me if I liked Chinese food. I explained to them that I first ate in a Chinese restaurant when I was 12; it was in San Francisco. For many years, I've enjoyed countless Chinese restaurants in the States.
I never tasted Chinese food until I came to China!
She’s glorious ❤️❤️❤️
The way she screamed at that cook to dry the meat or it would burn; shows that she was a tough lady! She expected the best in her food and people! Respect given!
It kept her young and vibrant! RIP Chef Cecilia 🙏🍜🙏😇
As I sit in Chinese takeout waiting for my food this pops up. Lol
Lol 😂
Cool informative segment. Made me hungry.
What an elegant, elegant woman!
Wow She was Fantastic & Really Smart!
She's right when she said chop suey disappeared I actually had to look it up
She’s adorable
She grew up in a 52 room mansion?! Dang Mrs Chiang! Old money!
People should look at this... a rich lady who had maids and servants was willing to get her hands dirty and start her business and hold it even if it was not working out at first. When some poor people think they are too good to do manual labor. There was a video some time ago about the difficulties of getting work and a black person said no black person would pick fruit or dig holes.
@@temujinkhan6326
What are you trying to get at? I'm black and I worked as a gardener in college and I now operate 4 restaurants. I grow my own veggies n fruits. I learned how to cook after opening my first restaurant. I learned it from a chef I hired.
Stop generalizing dude
@@ishmaelm1932 Repeating what a black person said in a interview... For the most part it's the truth. I worked for a black man from Nigeria. He hired some black americans to work and he told me afterwards he will never hire another black american man Again. By the way why is it ok for black people to generalize white america to be racist when percentage wise from racial population there is a higher percentage of black racism than white.
@@temujinkhan6326 true
@- Npangea Im sorry, I understand black people need to be handled with care
I just started liking Chinese food this year its very good
@3:24 that lady was irritated
Had a Gordon Ramsay feel to it😂😂 "IT'S BLOODY RAW!!!!"
She was like..."ok,ok ,leave me alone dang it!"😂😂😂
What a sweetheart
I served Chinese food for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. I would rather have that than turkey. My husband threw a fit! Oh well......
Ann S You can have turkey with all the fixin's and Chinese food together. Try it! Might as well go all out
We love you Cecilia!!!
I knew it!
Chinese people never heard of that stuff! But, God Bless her, she was a real a Real American Treasure
RIP!
Great story. Good job.
She is so sweet! RIP
That lady staff at 3:24 looks so upset when she got told to dry the coriander 🙁 Nevertheless respect to all who worked in the back end of the restaurant. It's never easy
一面好吃 一面好看
YASSSS. They're cooking Pot Stickers and Gumbo together! 😋😇
Wow her brain still functioning like the young active
Thank you
bless her heart
Inspirational
Amazing job !!!!!
R*I*Paradise amazing groundbreaking lady 🙏🏻
Legendary
She is awesome
She's a Northerner, the Chinese food in the US is more Cantonese in the south, of course she wouldn't know fuyong egg, orange chicken. I recently found out about chop suey which agrees with my southern tastebuds
I would love to see a segment on Native American food! The original American food! Curious as to what it is... why aren’t there any restaurants? We see so many Native American casinos. Why not something their food ? I bet it’s closely related to Mexican food.
If you’re genuinely curious, I would look up Jakob Lazzaro. He interviewed someone who explained how the government systematically removed food systems from native Americans. Most indigenous people live on reservations, in land that has no irrigation and no viable soil to grow crops. Many live in poverty. Opening a restaurant is also really expensive and business loans are not easy to get. Where would you even get the collateral? I didn’t read the full interview transcript (it’s also on audio), but I think it also mentions a cultural reason, which is to keep their customs and traditions as something sacred. I could be totally wrong on this second point but I remember learning in high school that some indigenous people guarded themselves to a point where they didn’t even take photos of themselves or they lose a piece of their soul. Obviously times have changed on the issue of taking photographs but it could just be cultural preservation for themselves. Hopefully someday we do see more Native American cuisine in restaurants. I would love that. My high school collaborated with the Washoe people in Northern California. They were very kind people who shared a bit of their culture with us. I remember the fry bread was yummy!
I remember at the National Native American Museum in Washington D.C., they have a cafeteria serving indigenous foods from the Americas. Absolutely delicious, healthy, and ingredients were local to the culture. Sadly, we don't see actual restaurants due to the reasons @S L pointed out
Mexican food is not related to Native American food. They’re entirely distinct, and the techniques of preparation from the simple taco to the elaborate and complex mole are not remotely close to Native American but if you’re referring to ingredients, then I believe maize and squash play a big role in both cuisines and Mexican cuisine may have influenced Native American cooking.
@@rogerhernandez4489 we need Native American food restaurant
CHR un Jour, CHR toujours ✊✊✊
WOW
I think I'll patronize my local place this week :)
She's cool, but their narrative is BS. She didn't bring "authentic" food, lol. The Chinese already in America are the ones who had created food all along, not non-Chinese. They adapted dishes using locally available ingredients, yet still with the aesthetic of THEIR Cantonese, Taishanese working class style. "Chop Suey" sounds silly, yes, but it's not far from simple home cooking of a Southern Chinese who has "odds and ends" to work with. "Egg Foo Young" is Cantonese fu jung dan (egg).
Chiang comes from rich Shanghai living of half a century later and of course she isn't going to know that kind of food. So what she did was bring contemporary Northern Chinese food.
Why is it closed?
Chiang sold the Mandarin in 1991.
@Rolli Nia Manchurian cuisine and Northern Chinese cuisine are not the same thing.
@Rolli Nia 酸辣湯, 木須肉, and 北京烤鴨 are not spicy dishes.
The day after she passed away? How did cbs produce this?
because they did this 6 years ago. it's in the description.
She's 95 ohh dear ohh dear she look like 80 yrs old still looking great granny
Now if only China and America’s relationship was just as good as this woman’s food
chop suey sure is culture shock when this Chinese Malaysian studied abroad in Auckland, New Zealand 1991 trip down memory lane 🤣
I want to hear more about the 52 room mansion.
I wonder if those photos or copies of them of John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, etc. are posted in the Mandarin restaurant. That would be very interesting and historical to see.
This reporter guy is so super cringe it’s painful to watch.
it's what happens when you put a comedian/humorist into a traditional journalism role lol.
chop su-eey
Leave the interviewer alone, she’s a nice white woman.
Nice!
RIP
She is beautiful all the way till old age she is classy
Mrs. Chiang just gave me an thought. Are there dumpling eating contests out there? I would enjoy putting away more than 50 of those suckers. 😋
Nope not gonna happen dude. 🤣🤣😭😭
Yes, there are competitive eating contests for dumplings. Joey Chestnut has the current record of 384 dumplings in 10 minutes.
✌🏾🙏🏾🐜golden gate bridge
Egg foo young is my favorite
Rest in dumpling heaven Madam Chiang.
This is Mao Ze dongs Chinese food. Prior to her there were the Taishanese or the Toisanese that were here before doing a very different style at home but didn’t have the same capital she had to make her restaurant. People like her thought the Toisanese were ghetto peasants.
Could you share some Toisanese recipes?
03:20 disgruntled labourer
So beautiful!
Imagine the US without Panda🐼 express 🍱
Yes 😫😫😩😩
Chinese have been here since the 1850's , no Chinese people eat at PFChangs
I love Chinese food!!! Especially dim sum omg so good
😎
Isn’t that the dude from VH1
❣❣
Fun Fact: Majority of Chinese people do not eat American Chinese food.
The real mother of Chinese food in U.S. is the owner of Panda Express.
How can one man be this awkward?
How do you get All American pope who up to the 1980s ate meatloaf to try "exotic " foods; and today Chinese and Mexicans are kind of mainstream .
and Chef Boyardee was the father of Italian food in America. LOL
I do not think she deserve the mother of Chinese food in America. No single one person deserve this title.
great comment
Why are journalists such clowns.
the Chinese food here is awful come to my dream tonight to confront with me.
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PF Chang's is crap food
Please dress professionally! Seriously!
I remember her🤔.. her bat casserole was just delicious
Bourgeois woman invests money. Wow, such news.
Why doesn’t anyone want to talk about the wig the host is wearing?
They don't mingle with americans
So she’s the one to blame for the dogs in our food?
I started to watch this and then Mo Rocca appeared and opened his annoying, phony, ingratiating mouth and I couldn’t watch the rest. It’s such a shame because the topic interested me. Oh, well. I’ll keep trying until he’s not the host of one of these! #MoGottaGo
Omg she was a gorgeous model like women when she was younger!!
RIP