Vicki Wong found she had lots of time on her hands when her children went off to boarding school in the UK, so she decided to take up dancing lessons.
Little did she know she would get so hooked on the cha-cha and rumba that she would open her own dancing school.
Dance Culture, opened two months ago in Causeway Bay, teaches the tango, waltz, cha-cha, rumba and, on Friday nights, the salsa.
And Vicki couldn't have timed things better.
For the past couple of years ballroom dancing has been gaining in popularity among the ball-going set of Hong Kong and apart from mah jong and shopping, has become a favourite pastime for tai-tais.
'I actually opened my own studio so I could practise dancing every day,' says Vicki, who has already employed four dancing instructors to teach in her 3,000 sq ft studio.
'This trend for ballroom dancing picked up after 1997 and I think it is China's influence,' says Vicki, who after studying dance for only two years has already won a gold medal from the Imperial Society of Dancing Teachers.