Isabel Wong-Vargas was an entrepreneur, restaurant developer and philanthropist who established and ran a highly successful restaurant in Lima, Peru. Born to a Peruvian mother and Chinese father, Wong-Vargas spent much of her childhood and early adulthood in China, where she began to informally learn real estate business practices, and returned to Peru in 1950. There, she began working in a grocery store to support her children before eventually building up her own businesses, establishing her restaurant La Caleta. In 1966, she travelled to the United States and settled in the Bay Area, where she was named honorary consul for Peru in San Francisco. In this interview, Wong-Vargas discusses her memories of World War II and the Japanese military in Hong Kong, gender roles and divorce in pre-revolution China, Peruvian business practices, and her later years in the Bay Area.