Shirley Fong-Torres was a chef, tour operator, and popular travel and food writer based in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

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Shirley Fong-Torres, the sister of Ben Fong-Torres

Ben Fong-Torres

Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle .-Biography:Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Fong-Torres' father, Ricardo Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese:...

 was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. Early in her career she worked at Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss

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and taught middle school. She later founded Wok Wiz Chinatown Tours, which offered cultural and culinary themed tours to locals and tourists. One of her popular tours was "I can't believe I ate my way through Chinatown." Fong-Torres' food-obsessed travels with her bi-polar bear Wroburlto were consolidated at Postcardsforyou.com.

Fong-Torres died of leukemia on June 18, 2011.

External links

• wokwiz.com - official site
• postcardsforyou.com
• "The Pied Piper of Chinatown"