Wing Wah wife cakes, Hong Kong

Wing Wah (榮華) is one of the two most popular wife cakes makers in Hong Kong. Their first restaurant-bakery (they are famous for Chinese preserved meat too) was opened in 1950, and has now expanded into a catering chain with over 30 outlets in Hong Kong.
Wife cake (老婆餅; lou po beng) is a Chinese pastry traditionally made of winter melons paste. Wife cakes these days came in variety of favours though; such as red bean, almond, coffee, green tea, sesame seed, lotus seed and cheese etc.

Wing Wah’s wife cakes

We found one of Wing Wah’s branches on Nathan Road in Mongkok area. There were all kinds of traditionally Chinese pastries, cookies and cakes available… some of those were freshly made, while some others were in nice packaging which were pretty convenient as souvenirs.
We only got to taste the wife cakes we bought after we were back to Malaysia. The cakes were quite good and tasty… I guess it would be even better if I got to taste it when it was fresh out of the oven. I can’t quite remember how I managed to forget trying some freshly made wife cakes back then.