Fu Pei-mei (Chinese: 傅培梅; pinyin: Fù Péiméi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pòo Puê-muî; 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.
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.
[3] Before becoming a cook, she worked in a trading company and appeared in television commercials promoting electrical appliances.
[3] In 1971, Raymond A. Sokolov of The New York Times stated that Fu Pei-mei "could be called the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.
[16] 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.