Suzie Wong (TV host)

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| name = Suzie Wong

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| birth_name = Lau Ko Chung

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|2|17}}

| partner = Elaine Jin

| awards = {{awards|award=TVB Anniversary Awards|name=Best Show Host
2008 So Good}}

| module = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes

| t = 蘇施黃

| s = 苏施黄

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Suzie Wong ({{lang-zh|t=蘇施黃}}) (born Lau Ko Chung ({{lang-zh|t=劉高琮}}); 17 February 1955) is a popular radio host and TV cooking programme host in Hong Kong.{{cite news|url=http://gourmet.esdlife.com/features/chi/articles.php?id=607|title=蘇施黃的味覺人生「我最懷念的一碗白飯」|work=ESDlife|access-date=25 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817102015/http://gourmet.esdlife.com/features/chi/articles.php?id=607|archive-date=17 August 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.macaodaily.com/html/2010-10/22/content_522847.htm|script-title=zh:澳門日報電子版|date=22 October 2010|author=方筱|work=Macao Daily News|language=Chinese|access-date=25 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026072925/http://www.macaodaily.com/html/2010-10/22/content_522847.htm|archive-date=26 October 2010}}

Biography

Wong was born in Hong Kong, she had two older brothers and three older sisters. She graduated in St. Stephen's Girls' College before she went to Canada and spent another year for high school. Then, she gained an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Alberta in 1978. {{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

After she finished her undergraduate degree, she went back to Hong Kong and joined the Commercial Radio Hong Kong (CR) and become a disk jockey (DJ) since 1978. In mid 1980s, she left CR and joined a couple types of career such as marketing and insurances.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In 1999, Wong went back to CR as a DJ. Besides, she began her cooking career since she became a cooking tutor in Towngas Cooking Centre. Later on, she become a television presenter for cooking shows such as So Real Time Cooking Series which produced by Cable TV Hong Kong and So Good which produced by TVB.

On 31 December 2019, Wong left CR after 41 years with her radio career and started her YouTube channel, This is So good.{{web reference |URL=https://ol.mingpao.com/ldy/showbiz/latest/20191231/1577787059556/%E3%80%90%E5%91%8A%E5%88%A5%E5%95%86%E5%8F%B0%E3%80%91%E8%98%87%E6%96%BD%E9%BB%83%E7%B6%B2%E4%B8%8A%E5%AE%A3%E5%B8%83%E6%96%B0%E5%8B%95%E5%90%91-2020%E5%B9%B4%E8%BD%89%E5%81%9A%E3%80%8Csol%E3%80%8D|title=【告別商台】蘇施黃網上宣布新動向 2020年轉做「SOL」|work=Mingpao OL |date=31 December 2019|access-date=2 January 2020年|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101180427/https://ol.mingpao.com/ldy/showbiz/latest/20191231/1577787059556/%e3%80%90%e5%91%8a%e5%88%a5%e5%95%86%e5%8f%b0%e3%80%91%e8%98%87%e6%96%bd%e9%bb%83%e7%b6%b2%e4%b8%8a%e5%ae%a3%e5%b8%83%e6%96%b0%e5%8b%95%e5%90%91-2020%e5%b9%b4%e8%bd%89%e5%81%9a%e3%80%8csol%e3%80%8d|url-status=live}}

Personal life

Wong came out as lesbian in 2010, and announced that her partner is Taiwanese actress Elaine Jin.{{cite web |title=阿蘇愛的承諾照顧金燕玲下半生 (Translation: Suzie Wong's Promise to Take Care of Elaine Jin For the Rest of her Life)|url=http://www2.mingpaoweekly.com/contents/?id=8557&page=1|publisher=Ming Pao Weekly |access-date=17 January 2012|language=Chinese |quote=這是她第一次公開說出對方名字，還以「愛人」稱呼。 (Translation: This is the first time she said the name of her significant other, and publicly called her a "lover".)|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128220530/http://www2.mingpaoweekly.com/contents/?id=8557&page=1|archive-date=28 January 2013}}

Notes

Category:Hong Kong women radio presenters

Category:Hong Kong television presenters

Category:Hong Kong women television presenters

Category:LGBTQ DJs

Category:Hong Kong LGBTQ broadcasters

Category:Hong Kong lesbian musicians

Category:University of Alberta alumni

Category:Living people

Category:1955 births

Category:20th-century Hong Kong LGBTQ people

Category:21st-century Hong Kong LGBTQ people