<P> In 1962, he appeared on CBS's Perry Mason as Dean Chang in "The Case of the Weary Watchdog", and in 1963, he played Louis Kew in "The Case of the Floating Stones". He also appeared three times on the NBC military sitcom, Ensign O'Toole . In 1965, Hong was one of the original founding members of the East West Players, an early Asian American theatre organization . Also in 1966, he played the bar owner Mr. Shu in The Sand Pebbles . Hong also appeared in several episodes of the original Hawaii Five - O . </P> <P> Hong had a small part on a 1972 episode of CBS's The Bob Newhart Show . He was a frequent guest star on the 1972--1975 ABC television series Kung Fu, joined the cast on the final season of CBS's Switch, as Wang, and also played a flight attendant in the original 1979 film The In - Laws . He appeared as a doctor accused of performing an illegal abortion in the Blake Edwards movie The Carey Treatment in 1972 . He starred as a uniformed man in the 1980 comedy cult film Airplane! . He has also directed such films as Teen Lust . </P> <P> Hong is perhaps most widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter's cult classic Big Trouble in Little China (1986), as the eye manufacturer Chew in Blade Runner, as Evelyn Mulwray's loyal and vigilant butler in Chinatown and The Two Jakes, and as the low - rent private eye in Black Widow . He would then appear in the film The Vineyard (1989). </P> <P> Hong's first appearance as a host in a Chinese restaurant was in the movie Flower Drum Song . Hong then appeared as a host in a Chinese restaurant in the 1975 All In the Family episode "Edith Breaks Out" as well as on the well - known Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant". Hong also played a similar role in several episodes of The Big Bang Theory during its first season, as well as in the "Color Blind" episode during the first season of Alias . Hong portrayed Chow Ting, a dry cleaner with the power to wash sins and guilt from a person's conscience in the 1985 Tales from the Darkside episode "It All Comes Out in the Wash". Hong appeared as a villain in a season three episode of The X-Files . He appeared in two episodes of The West Wing (Ep . 1.11; 3.15) as the Chinese Ambassador to the United States . He also played Mr. Soo on The King of Queens, an Asian restaurant owner again who rents Doug Heffernan and his friends a loft apartment above his store, in the episode "Apartment Complex" (2006). Additionally, Hong had guest - starred on Friends, playing Hoshi, the former paid assassin and boxing coach for Monica's boyfriend Pete (played by Jon Favreau) in the episode "The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion". </P>

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