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Guangdong Province — Cantonese pastry tradition
Wife Cake (Lao Po Bing / 老婆饼)
Guangdong Province — Cantonese pastry tradition
Traditional Cantonese pastry of thin, flaky pastry wrapped around a sweetened winter melon (dong gua) paste filling, with sesame seeds on top. A wedding and gifting tradition in Guangdong. The origin story involves a husband who sold himself into slavery to pay for his ill wife's medicine; she then created these cakes to sell and buy his freedom.
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