With their flaky crust and sweet chewy filling, wife cakes are a popular pastry in southern China. And this bakery in Hong Kong has been making them fresh, by hand, every day for over 30 years.
William Cheung, who appeared in the Netflix series "Restaurants on the Edge," shows us how his family's bakery, Kee Tsui Cake Shop, makes their famous wife cakes and why they've stuck to the traditional way of doing things.
0:00 What are wife cakes?
0:30 Meet the chef
1:05 Why's it called a wife cake?
1:35 How they're made
3:28 The best ones are made by hand
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Producer: Gavin Huang
Videographers: Hanley Chu and Nicholas Ko
Editor: Hanley Chu
Mastering: Joel Roche
Music: Audio Network
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