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Daisy Lee

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Daisy Lee

Some pie-cart proprietors became local identities. In New Plymouth Daisy Lee – with charismatic manner, good looks, and beehive hairdo – drew people to Ping’s Pie Cart in the 1970s. She worked the counter with Henry Leong, who was famous for his fried egg sandwiches.

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Ben Schrader, Street life – Street trade and people, 1915–2008, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20692/daisy-lee (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 March 2010.