lou5 po4 beng2老婆餅老婆饼
Jyutpinglou5 po4 beng2
Yalelóuh pòh béng
Definition
Wife cake; a traditional Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon paste and glutinous rice flour wrapped in flaky pastry.
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How it's used
Despite the name literally meaning wife cake, it contains no wife. It is a classic souvenir often associated with Yuen Long, where many traditional bakeries have specialized in this pastry for decades. The filling is typically a sweet, chewy winter melon paste, which distinguishes it from other flaky pastries like egg tarts or almond cakes.
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go3個goExamples
The wife cakes from this shop are incredibly delicious.
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Common phrases
Yuen Long wife cake
a box of wife cakes
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
