Monday, March 10, 2008

恆香 Hang Heung


新界 元郎 大馬路
64-66號
No. 64-66 Main Road
Yuen Long, NT
West Rail Line: Yuen Long Station


Yuen Long, a district in the northwest corner of the New Territories, is surrounded by farmland and unused fields of vegetation where high-rises don't loom as tall as they do on Hong Kong island, or even Kowloon. Making a trip here? You'd better bring back some "wife cakes" for family and friends! Hang Heung (meaning perpetually fragrant) claims the title to selling these infamous pastries known in Cantonese as lou po beng. Made of winter melon and almond paste, they are flaky and fragrant on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside, and most simply put, a delicious snack :)


wife cake

One red little box contains six of these romantically inspired (as the name implies) pastries. Mine was still piping hot when I bought it :)


So many pastries to choose from!

New glossary terms:
lou po: wife
beng: 1. cake 2.cookie

1 comment:

June Art Studio said...

Hi

I'm Jessie from Kuala Lumpur. M'sia. Yesterday an uncle of mine brought a box of the wife biscuit from HK Kowloon. Very tasty thin crispy skin and the filling is good. Everyone in my family enjoy your biscuit. Keep up !!!