During the 18 years Fu Pei-mei has been running her Chinese cooking class, she has encountered many difficulties and hardships. She recalls that she had to pay a high price for top-grade Chinese chefs of Chekiang, Kiangsu, Szechuan, Hunan and Kwangtung origin to teach her at home, because in former times, there were no Chinese cookbooks available.
這樣一來，她才發現想學做菜的人實在不少，許多家庭主婦或未婚小姐都跑來報名。人愈來愈多，她沒法兒再把教菜當玩票，民國五十一年，終於在教育部立案，成立台灣第一個中國烹飪的補習班。