Fu Pei-mei

Fu Pei-mei (; 1 October 1931 – 16 September 2004) was a Taiwanese waishengren chef. She wrote over 30 cookbooks on Chinese cuisine, and produced and hosted cooking programs on Taiwan Television and Japan's NHK. In 2012, she was posthumously awarded the special award at the 47th Golden Bell Awards ceremony.

Life Fu was born in 1931 in Dalian, under Japanese rule at the time. Aged 15, she left the city due to the events of the Chinese Civil War, and took on clerical work, where her company provided meals to its workers. At first her audience were mainly Taiwanese housewives. Fu later taught wives of United States Armed Forces stationed in Taiwan. It was one of those students that helped her contact a producer at Taiwan Television, where she began her television career.

For forty years, from 1962 to 2002, Fu hosted a series of cooking programs at Taiwan Television titled , presenting over 4000 Chinese cuisine dishes. Her programs were exported to Japan, the United States, the Philippines and other Asian countries. while her English-language programs were aided by a daughter. Fu published an English–Chinese bilingual edition of her first cookbook in 1969, translating the text herself. Fu wrote over 30 cookbooks in Chinese and English and ran a cooking class. Fu helped develop a number of flavorful precooked food products, including Manhan Noodles, an instant noodle product marketed by Uni-President, and a product line of five entrees for Ajinomoto.

Fu died on 16 September 2004 of pancreatic cancer, aged 73. Fu Pei-mei had a positive reception to the comparison.

In 2012, she posthumously received the special Golden Bell Award. In October 2015, a Google Doodle was dedicated to her.

A mini-series about Fu's life, sharing the same name as her autobiography, What She Put on the Table, aired in Taiwan during the summer of 2017. It was available globally starting in the fall of 2018 through the online streaming platform, Netflix.

TV shows Chinese Cooking with Fu Pei-mei, (aired on RPN (now RPTV) and later on ABS-CBN as part of Saturday morning program, respectively)

Books Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book

Television