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These are white cakes, their traditional Chinese pastry from the southern province of Guangdong.
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And this bakery in Hong Kong has been making them fresh every day for over 30 years.
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It's fluffy.
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When you bite into it, it starts to flake off.
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And then the inside is sweet and it all melts together in your mouth.
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My name is William Cheung.
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I'm 32 I'm the golden errand boy for the key to kick shot.
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Is that your actual title?
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It's my official title.
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You can think of it as a manager.
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You feel more important if you cause color manager.
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But my mom like to call him an errand boy.
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We sell traditional Chinese pastries.
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Cow ears, uh, chicken biscuits.
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It's coconut tarts.
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Guangzhou Banks Wife cake, smaller Seoul Hospital.
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So Okay, so we're making wife kicked today.
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Traditionally, a wife cake was made because the guy wanted a feel for his wife.
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So we made a cake and we ate it.
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A sweetness reminds him off his wife, and somehow he wants to spread it around, which is weird.
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Actually, there are several origin stories, and this is just one of them.
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Anyways, back to making wife cakes.
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First, we create the base of the skin.
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We mix flour, lard, water, sugar and a little bit of oil together where belt it together with a lot of arm strength.
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We rub it vigorously, too great, have more bouncy and stretchy texture on.
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Then we let it rest for about 30 minutes way.
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Roll it out and we put in a another layer off lard and flower in between the sheets on, and then we fold them and we lay it out.
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We told them we lay it out.
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It's like how, even for songs, But instead of using butter, we use large laying out makes the whole pastry puffs pumping, so when you bake it, it'll be layered on.
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Then when you bite into it, the layer flake off, and that gives the pastry profits signature style for the filling.
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We use sugar, flour, water, oil and other flavor enhancing stuff to make it better.
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And then we add off course.
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It makes it different from the ones you eat outside.
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Our fillings are less mushy than the ones outside.
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After that, we put the filling in the skin.
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We put it all together, and we roll it out.
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Oh, yeah.
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Egg wash gives us a shine and the brown coloring so it looks better way.
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Make a hole in the middle of the wife cake to prevent the pastry from bulging into a big fall, and then we put in the oven.
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It bakes for about 5 to 8 minutes, depending on the temperature of we bake it and we sell it.
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Wait, you're not using any holes in your flower.
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You're not measuring way.
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Measure things out, but it's more about the feel off the dough.
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The humidity changes, the temperature changes.
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We can't just use the same measurement every time.
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They have been doing this for more than 30 years, so they know by look, just by luck, they know how how the dough is turning out.
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It was like, Oh, yeah, you need more water.
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There were like, Oh, you need to rub a little harder They say there's a sheen to it.
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I don't see it, but that's why my pastry falls apart.
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Everybody is trying to create new things to attract new customers.
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Way focus on the traditional side.
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We don't do extra things like bread or fancier things, like muchacha or pumpkin spice People come and they know what to expect from the store.
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You feel much better when you see it come off.
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And you see the guy having it over his head is like, Yeah, fresh cakes.
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You will kill you.
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Uh, uh.
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Process is part of the pastry.
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You know, this is made by hand because it's crooked.
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You can see the filling peeking through the walls.
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It gives a sense off dancing made like human touch.
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That just sounds wrong in English.
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No wives are harmed during the production off wife takes.