"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" is the second segment of the ninth episode of the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone.

David Wong, a young Asian American, has spent three years looking for a mysterious place called "The Lost and Found Emporium."

Wu got the idea for the story from a prompt given by Harlan Ellison at the Clarion Writers Workshop: "Where do lost things go?"

[1] The production featured a huge number of "lost item" props, with the crew cracking jokes about having cleaned out the CBS property room.

[1] Science fiction writer Alison Tellure suggested the idea of a head in a jar which turns out to be alive.

[1] The original short story makes a subtle reference to an earlier short story with a mystic curio shop, "The Chaser" by John Collier,[1] which coincidentally was also developed into a Twilight Zone episode, albeit for the original series rather than the 1985 incarnation.

A sequel episode titled "Missing Person" was developed for season two of "The Twilight Zone", this time with the teleplay written by William F. Wu himself, but the series was cancelled before it could be filmed.

All three Lost and Found Emporium stories were collected in Wu's 2020 book Interlaced Pathways, which was coincidentally dedicated to Alan Brennert.

According to Brennert, in the early 2000s he was in talks to adapt the episode into a Sci-Fi Channel series in which David and Melinda would interact with a different set of guest stars each week, but nothing came of it.