Biography

Teresa Lee, the sixth child of a family of eight siblings, is the daughter of an influential businessman in Dili, from where she was evacuated while still a baby at the time of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. Spending her childhood in Taipei with all the trappings of an upper-crust lifestyle, she moved at the age of 14 to Australia, where her father has extensive business interests in, among other things, the catering industry. Being of East Timorese, Chinese, and Portuguese descent, the well-travelled Lee's exposure from an early age to various styles of cuisine fired in her a profound interest in cooking. Spending much of her spare time assisting the chefs in her father's restaurants, she would often experiment with different flavours and cooking styles to come up with new tastes and ways of presentation. On top of her flair for cooking, Lee also models occasionally, and her face has been seen in magazines including Australia's Vogue. After spending a year living in London, Lee moved to Hong Kong in 1998 and immediately made a huge impact on the local social scene. It is in these capacities - as a photogenic girl-about-town sharing her love of cooking with the audience - that she now presents the cookery/lifestyle programme, "A Dish About Town".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous