Warm, gregarious and garrulous, she has a deep husky voice and is prone to breaking out into peals of laughter.
She is not to the manor born. Hers is a classic rags to riches story: A cosmetics salesgirl who, through sheer will and hunger to succeed, rose through the industry ranks to become a dowager of high fashion.
She was born the sixth of seventh children in 1943, during World War II.
Her late father, an architect, was tortured by the Japanese.
'He was never the same after that. People thought he was mentally ill but he was just deeply depressed,' she says.
Because he could not work, his wife had to work as a caterer to bring up the children. 'Our meals were often leftovers from the catering functions she did. I only had hand-me-downs,' Ms Wong recalls.
The family lived with nearly a dozen other relatives in a house in the Clemenceau area.
She studied at St Anthony's Convent in Middle Road but left school when she was in Secondary 2 to help support the family.
Her first job was selling textiles in a store in High Street, earning $80 a month. A couple of years later, she joined Robinsons as a cosmetics counter salesgirl selling first Lancome, and later, Elizabeth Arden products.
She did well, thanks to a gift of the gab and flair with using make-up.
At 19, she married an English broadcaster and followed him to Hong Kong. Her marriage did not last but her career blossomed.
Estee Lauder hired her to become its sales and training manager for South-east Asia and Australia.