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2. Wife Cakes<br />
The delightfully-named wife cakes are buns filled with sweet winter<br />
melon paste. Legend has it that when the winter-melon puffs made<br />
by a woman in Guangdong Province were highly praised in public,<br />
her husband proudly declared that there were his wife’s cakes. The<br />
name ‘wife cake’ stuck.<br />
In <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong>, back when the New Territories was a day trip away<br />
from the urban areas, it was de rigueur for visitors to Yuen Long to<br />
buy wife cakes to take home. Today, a lot of the city’s wife cakes<br />
are baked in Yuen Long, so this is still considered the place to get<br />
the freshest batches.<br />
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