Wife cake, Lo por beng, Lao po bing, 老婆餅,(Chinese name (simplified))老婆饼
Type
Cake
Course
Snack, dessert
Place of origin
Guangdong, China
Region or state
Cantonese-speaking areas
Main ingredients
Winter melon, almond paste, sesame, five spice powder
Media: Sweetheart cake
Sweetheart cake
Traditional Chinese
老婆餅
Simplified Chinese
老婆饼
Literal meaning
wife ("sweetheart") cake
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
lǎopó bǐng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
lou5 po4 beng2
IPA
[lo̬upʰɔ̏ːpɛ̌ːŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
lāu-pô-piáⁿ
Wife cake
A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.[1]
"Wife cake" is the translation of 老婆饼 from Chinese, and although the meaning is "wife", the literal translation is "old lady cake", paralleling the colloquial usage of "old lady" for "wife" in English. In Hong Kong, it is known as a specialty of the Yuen Long District.[2]
^Chinese-sweetheart-cake Archived 2012-07-03 at archive.today
^"The Wife Cake Emerges as a Symbol of Resistance During the Hong Kong Protests". 6 August 2019.
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