Susur was born in Hong Kong , the youngest of six children . He served his culinary apprenticeship at Hong Kong 's renowned Peninsula Hotel . He immigrated to Canada in 1978 and met and married his first wife , Marilou Covey , the same year . In 1983 Susur and Marilou had decided to move to Hong Kong , but Marilou died as a passenger aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 that was destroyed by a Soviet jet fighter . Susur remarried ( Brenda Bent ) in 1991
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Susur Lee