Who Invented Wife Cake?

There was a legend about the wife's pie.

About the wife,the pie. According to this legend, in ancient times there was a couple who loved each other deeply but lived in poverty. The husband did not lose heart after his wife had to sell herself to a landlord to earn money for her father's medical treatment due to his serious illness. He developed a delicious pie that eventually earned enough money to redeem his wife, and they lived happily ever after.This delicacy became known as wife's pie. You never thought this little wife's pie had such an inspiring story behind it; selling wife's pie could lead to a happy life, much more so than the misfortune of Wu Da Lang, who sold baked goods but lost his wife and ended up in trouble.

This famous snack from Guangzhou is also called Chaozhou wife's pie for another reason.

The story goes that a man from Chaozhou came to work as a pastry chef in Guangzhou.Once he returned home to visit, he brought many pastries back for his family to taste. To his surprise, his wife said, "These famous Guangzhou pastries are not as delicious as themelon corners I make."The Chaozhou chef was skeptical and asked his wife to make some melon corners. After tasting them, he admitted that they were indeed tasty.After returning home from his visit, he had his wife make a large batch of melon corners for other chefs to try in Guangzhou. To his surprise, everyone enjoyed them. Since these pastries were made by the Chaozhou chef's wife, they came to be known as "Chaozhou wife's pie."After their improvements, this wife's pie became a famous snack from Guangzhou. Wife's pie has a light and flaky crust that melts in your mouth, a moist and tender filling, and a sweet but not greasy taste. However, what makes it most appealing is its heartwarming name and the touching story behind it. Single men who eat wife's pie every day may be motivated to find a partner sooner;

while couples can use wife's pie to create an atmosphere that might boost their relationship; making it yourself increases your chances of success even more. Interestingly, there is also husband's pie, which has a salted melon filling and is larger in size, somewhat fitting the character of a more straightforward man. However, such names as fake wife's pie or tiny wife's pie give an unpleasant impression; they only cheapen the reputation of wife's pie.

These kinds of names are so off-putting that who would want to eat them? This husband pie gives people the impression of (following someone's example in a bad way), while some following wife pies, tiny wife pies, and mistress pies have an air of taking shortcuts. Truly, they soil the reputation of wife pies. Such names, upon hearing them, are displeasing; how can one have any appetite to eat?