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Title
Wife Cake
老婆餅
Subject
Hong Kong food
historical food
street food
bakery
dessert
pastry
baking
Description
Wife cake is a kind of traditional pastry. Circle in shape, it has thin meringue and filled with a soft sweet mixture of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame.
Type
Food
Identifier
HKFood020
Food Item Type Metadata
Time of origin
n.d.
Place of origin
Guangdong
Story of origin
One of the most popular legendary about the origin of wife cake tells the story about a couple that lived a very poor life in yuan dynasty in China. The man's father had a bad desease and the couple spent all of their money in order to treat him, but he was still sick. The wife sold herself as a slave in exchange for money to buy medicine for her father-in-law. Once the husband learned about what his wife did, he made a cake filled with sweetened wintermelon and almond. He dedicated this pastry to his wife, whom he could never forget, and sold it in the street. His cake became so popular that he was able to earn enough money to buy his wife back.
Taste
sweet
General price
7
Ingredients
Winter melon
almond paste
sesame
Places available
Bakeries
Cuisine
Cantonese
Cooking method
baking
Cantonese pronunciation
lou5 po4 beng2
