As violence against protesters breaks out across Hong Kong, the sweetheart cake has gained renewed communal significance
to the streets where, amidst gang and police violence, a surprising symbol of resistance has emerged: the wife cake, also known as a sweetheart cake, which is a pie with a thin crust and a filling of mashed candied winter melon.
The wife cake is a popular choice on the pastry plate that a bridegroom sends his bride’s parents following an engagement. But as significantly, it’s a specialty of Yuen Long, a district in northern Hong Kong that only really urbanized beginning in the 1970s. Its prominence in Yuen Long is essentially a success story of the neighborhood bakeries, some of which have been turning out handmade Cantonese pastries for more than half a century.
The dubiously late arrival of the police to the station and their blasé attitude toward the attackers cast suspicions that they were in an alliance with the gangs. Such belief only gained currency later on when a formal request for a protest in Yuen Long to condemn the attack on July 27 was rejected by the police.
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