Chou did not speak a word of English when he moved to Montreal from China at age 10 but quickly became fluent, with one version having him learn the language by reading an entire dictionary.
He was sent to Weredale boys home and Shawbridge after a period of being out of control, possibly due to his fighting those who bullied him for being different.
He attended Monkland High School and befriended biker Mike French, who he eventually followed into the Satan's Choice motorcycle gang in 1972.
The crew was relatively unstructured compared to later biker gangs, with most members barely scraping by on various odd jobs, welfare and petty drug dealing.
Chou's closest friends Mike French and Brian Forget became increasingly violent and erratic with time.
Chou's association with the two might have earned him a worse reputation than he merited. Both French and Forget were later murdered.
Chou mastered kung fu moves, which he employed to fell at least one much-larger opponent in the form of killer John Slawvey who he confronted at Herbie's Bar.
Slawvey owed Chou money and Chou managed to get the better of him, leaping on him before he could get up. Slawvey's girlfriend eventually sprayed Chou with mace to end the fight.
Chou was no stranger to police and one time legendary Night Squad Detective Jacques Cinq-Mars introduced himself to to Chou by putting a gun to his head at the Arc (later the Picassos on St. James), begging Chou to make a move. Chou wisely complied and went off peacefully.
Throughout this time Chou managed to father five sons and one daughter with at least two different mothers.
About a decade ago Chou was savagely beaten by Jamaicans on the street outside a bar on Cavendish below Sherbrooke. They slashed his throat but he survived.
Chou had also suffered an injury a short time earlier in his job doing heating and ventilation systems.
In his later years Chou would stroll the west end and play pickup softball games on Sundays at NDG Park, in spite of coping with a liver ailment that eventually killed him.
He lived on St. James near Cavendish in his later years and said he didn't have a phone, as he said his girlfriend worried that it would lead him to mischief.
Although many might recall Chou for wild biker mayhem, one close friend from the biker scene recalled Chou for his kindness, noting one episode at a funeral where Chou spent two hours singlehandedly calming a belligerent drunk who was lashing out at everybody in sight.