Career
Shirley Fong-Torres, the sister of Ben Fong-Torres, was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. Early in her career she worked at Levi Strauss 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."
In 2006, Shirley Fong-Torres appeared on the hit Travel & Living Channel show Cocktail Kings, and inspired mixologist Dimitri Lezinska to create a Margarita style drink named "Diva of Sausalito."
Fong-Torres died of leukemia on June 18, 2011.