Madame Wu’s soon became known for her Chinese chicken salad, now an American luncheon classic." But, the popularity of Chinese Chicken salad was not necessarily mainstream yet, although perhaps intimated and attempted throughout the years and generations. It was a blend of shredded chicken, fried vermicelli, green onions and toasted almonds. Cary Grant asked her to put it on the menu after eating it at another restaurant." Īccording to a website about Sylvia Cheng Wu, who is popularly known by her alias Madame Wu, "She came up with something better, using a recipe she vaguely remembered having encountered in Shanghai. The 1960s produced the Chinese Chicken Salad, which was made popular at Madame Wu's in Santa Monica. by the fashionable set, probably originated in California." In Hollywood Dish, Akasha Richmond writes, "Hollywood gave rise to more salads than just the Caesar and Cobb. But the Chinese chicken salad being consumed. In Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Sylvia Lovegren writes, "There are many different types of cold chicken salad in China, although most of them seem to originate in Szechwan. Many non-Western world cultures also have salads of various sorts as part of their traditional cuisines. Reasoning for that theory is that green lettuce salad is a dish of primarily Western origins. The Chinese chicken salad that is popular in the US seems to be a product of pan- Asian cuisine or fusion cuisine influences, rather than having roots in Chinese cuisine. ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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