Wife Cakes from Hang Heung used to be my favourite goodies my friends would bring back from Hong Kong, with the little red box bundled with red raffia string. And as like many brands that expanded their market overseas, there was no longer a need to fly to Yuen Lang to buy them, as they opened their first Singapore branch at ION Orchard.

Each box would pack 6 pieces of freshly-baked pastries at S$15.00, though one could also get individual pieces of Wife Cake at S$2.80 each. And as far as I was concerned, these Wife Cakes were awesome, with very thin flaky pastry crust and a soft, mochi-like winter melon paste filling that was tastefully sweet for me.

Queue lines were said to be long to get your hands on a box of this, but the game plan was really to visit them during off-peak hours for the transaction to be quick and smooth. Just wondering how long it would take for the purchase limit of two boxes per customer would be lifted for this one.