Saturday, October 20, 2007

Hongkong Delicacy~

My cousin and her family just went back from Hong Kong yesterday! Ha ha! Now i am eating HongKong famous cake. . TADA~~ is call Lou Po Beng! ( Wife Cake ) import from HongKong! haha Anyway know why Lou Po Beng is called Lou Po Beng? Now i shall tell u this story about Wife Cake! (Quote and Found it from the box)

Chinese orchestra music playing~~

" Once upon a time, a very famous master baker in Tang Pastry(Chinese style pastry) having his wanderful (suppose to be wonderful?) techniques in preparing pastry items and with good assistance from his wife got his name far-famed with in the region. His business bloomed but his bad habit in gambling often let hi (his?) properties all offset by loss.
One day, he lost so much money in casino as he bet with a borrowing ....thn etc etc . . LAZY TYPE ALD haha and the English is too weird! anyway end up his wife tell him i cant help u anymore...all the relative runaway from thm thn now she the only last thing for him to give away....thn she hope he wont gambling again.
The man after selling his beloved wife, felt extremely remorseful. This time he did stop from gambling again with a view to commemorate such better half of him, he created a kind of delicious Tang pastry in the name of his wife LOU PO BENG (WIFE CAKE) "




Lou Po Beng



After reading the story of this lou po beng. . I REALLY FEEL SO PISSED! haha where got hubby go and sell of own beloved wife just to clear his own debt??? are u even a human?? okei so u can bake excellent cake but u sux..... bet ur wife every night haunt u in ur dream saying:" Lou po beng lei gek sei yan tao!" ha and don't get addicted to gambling << evil!!

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