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and a waterfall. The pagoda-styled building included four dining rooms, a VIP room, and a crimson rotunda with a garden, including a tall pine tree jutting through the roof. She welcomed guests at the entrance, elegantly clad in floor-length silk dresses.
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cancer hospital in honor of her philanthropy. After closing Madame Wu's Garden in 1998, she opened the short-lived Madame Wu's Asian Bistro & Sushi. In 2001 she published
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In 1944, she immigrated by herself to New York City, although she had no friends or family there. She enrolled in
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in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1998. She later briefly opened Madame Wu's Asian Bistro & Sushi. She wrote
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in 1959, when she was 44 with her children away at boarding school. The restaurant was on
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In 1968, she moved to a larger space which could seat 300 guests. It featured a
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Madame Wu's Garden: A Pictorial History of a Celebrated Landmark
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Madame Wu's Garden: A Pictorial History of a Celebrated Landmark
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Chinese-American restaurateur and cookbook author (1915–2022)
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Madame Wu's Garden

Jiujiang
China
Teachers College, Columbia University
George H. Wu
Traditional Chinese




Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Bopomofo
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
IPA

Chinese
Wilshire Boulevard
Jiujiang
Jiangxi
China
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Japanese-occupied China
Republic of China
Teachers College at Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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