The screen grab shows a tweet from NBC reporting the death of legendery Chinese restaurateur Cecilia Chiang, who died on Oct 28, 2020 in San Francisco at 100.

NEW YORK - Cecilia Chiang, the famed restaurateur who helped introduce authentic Chinese food to America in the 1960s and died at 100 on Wednesday, has been a rare female owner in an industry dominated by men, NBC reported on Friday.

Many dishes served in the Mandarin, like pot stickers, moo shu pork and sizzling rice soup, are now staples at Chinese restaurants in  the United States

Chiang gained acclaim as the owner of the Mandarin, a pioneering San Francisco restaurant which she opened in 1961. The dishes it served, like pot stickers, moo shu pork and sizzling rice soup, are now staples at Chinese restaurants across the United States, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported her death and named her the "mother of Chinese food in America."

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Chiang, who ran the Mandarin from 1961 to 1991 before selling it, was credited by food magazine Saveur in 2000 with "nothing less than introducing regional Chinese cooking to America."

"I think I changed what average people know about Chinese food," she told the Chronicle in 2007. "They didn't know China was such a big country."

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As one of 12 children, Chiang was born Sun Yun near Shanghai in 1920 and grew up in Beijing. Around 1960, she started her restaurant business in San Francisco, then moved the restaurant to a larger space on the city's Ghirardelli Square in 1968 and later opened a second Mandarin in Beverly Hills, California in 1975. The original Mandarin closed in 2006. 

The screen grab taken from a video posted on the official YouTube page of P.F. Chang -- a restaurant co-founded by Cecilia Chiang's son Phillip Chiang -- shows late restaurateur Cecilia Chiang.