With her husband Joe Gock, she made numerous innovations in the growing and selling of fruit and vegetables, for which they jointly won Horticulture New Zealand's Bledisloe Cup in 2013.
[5] Fay Wong met Joe Gock, another young Chinese New Zealander, when he delivered a load of produce to her father's shop, and they married in 1956.
They started their own growing business, although at the time, legal restrictions on Chinese immigrants meant they couldn't own land or build a house.
For a long time there was little market for it, but when others stopped growing it, demand increased and the business was soon exporting rhubarb to England and Japan.
[2] In 2013, Gock and her husband jointly received the Bledisloe Cup for services to horticulture, citing their work as "pioneers" in the field.