Comments on: Wife Cake (Lou Phor Peng)

By: pelf

pelf — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:48:13 +0000

I tried some “lou por peng” in Yuen Long (HK) and oh my, they were AWESOME! But I’ve never tried the Tampin one though I spent 10 years of my life in Melaka

By: semut

semut — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:52:22 +0000

As for the story of LouPoh Peng, the version that I got is like this:

Once upon a time, there was a kopitiam somewhere in Guangzhou which was famous for their delicacies (kuih-muih and cookies). One day, one of the dessert sifus there bought all the nice kuih-muih and cookies back for his wife to taste. This dessert sifu was from Chaozhou (Teochew).

After the wife tasted, she commented, “Cheh! Famous kopitiam famous cookies like that only ah? Nothing special one. My hometown homemade wintermelon puff lagi best lah!”

So this dessert sifu challenged her wife, “Your wintermelon puff so best then make for me to taste lah!”

So the wife made the puff and this sifu also admitted very best. So then he brought some back to the kopitiam for his fellow colleagues other dessert sifus to eat. The kopitiam taukeh after eating said, “Wah! Very nice wor. Where you buy one?”

“Not buy one… Teochew LouPoh made one,” said some of the sifus.

“Oh… Teochew LouPoh Peng…” taukeh said. “We must sell this also. ”

So that’s how the name came about.

And they all lived happily ever after.

- The End -

By: semut

semut — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:09:17 +0000

The real name of Shih Huang Ti (259BC – 210BC) is Ying Zheng. Ying being his surname.

Yong Zheng (1678 – 1735) was another Emperor of China. His real name is Ai Xin Jue Luo Yin Zhen. Ai Xin Jue Luo being his surname.

By: babe_kl

babe_kl — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:34:05 +0000

i liked the mung beans paste biscuit from them leh yumyummm but dun really like loh por pheng though

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:56:52 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the taste. I saw these wife cakes in a supermarket a few weeks ago and I was contemplating on buying them. The company also produces husband cakes but I didn’t read the package to know the story behind husband cakes.