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A sweetheart cake or wife cake is a traditional Cantonese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon almond paste and sesame and spiced with five spice powder).Wife cake is the translation of lou po beng from Cantonese and although the meaning is wife the literal translation is old lady cake paralleling the colloquial usage of old lady for wife in American English.The cake is still popular among many in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
