She has also owned and run other restaurants in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and is a two-time James Beard Foundation Award winner.
Her father was a General in the National Revolutionary Army, and so during the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, she moved to live on Taiwan.
[1] While in college in Taiwan studying for a bachelor's degree in history she met,[2][3] and would later marry in 1966, E-Hsin Foo.
He arranged for her to dine at the best Chinese restaurants in New York City, and for consultants to train her in French cuisine, as well as inviting her to attend the Culinary Institute itself.
[6][8] Her husband had fallen ill, and she still had another restaurant closer to home in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Susanna Foo Gourmet Kitchen.