Jung grew up in a small town in northern California. Her parents had emigrated to the US from Guangdong back in the 1940s; they opened a little grocery in the town, and were the only Asian family around.
盧秀英生長於北加州的一個小鎮中，父母親在四○年代從廣東來到金山，從她記事開始，就在小鎮經營小型超市，是鎮上唯一的華人家庭。