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Cecilia Chiang is 90, feisty and talking to the Two Saucy Chicks. The author of the culinary memoir “The Seventh Daughter,’’ Chiang is a pioneer who introduced true northern Chinese cuisine to America when she opened Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco almost 50 years ago; Roy Fong is a Daoist priest and tea master, importing the finest and rarest leaves from China. He says the philosophy of “kung fu’’ can be as much about serving tea as it is about kicking butt (www.imperialtea.com); wine adventurer Dinkinish O’Connor tells us what wine works with General Tso’s chicken (www.purplereignwine.com).