SPD3159FOODS IN HONG KONG-Sweetheart cake 老婆餅

A sweetheart cake is a traditional Chinese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder (Chinese spice blend of fennel seed, star anise, licorice root and cloves). Sweetheart cake also known as or wife cake, which is the literal translation of Low Paw Bang from Cantonese dialect. There are many classes held in Hong Kong for making sweetheart cakes. The sweetheart cake, though it has such a long history, is still popular among many in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Many people in Hong Kong, as well as professional chefs, bake also "modern" varieties of this cake.

There has a story about the wife cake. The man went searching for his wife after he earned enough money to buy her back. In his search, he had a cup of tea at a local teahouse, when he suddenly recognized the pastry they were serving with the tea. They were reunited at the teahouse.

In Hong Kong, Hang Heung Cake Shop and Wing Wah Cake shop are well known brand produce cake especially wife cake. I suggest that you may go to Wing Wah to buy that cake, because they provide the fresh wife cake to you.


By Gabriel Tsui