Legend has it that during the Jiaqing period, there was a long-established tea house in Guangzhou, and the pastries and snacks here were well-known and ranked among the top three in Guangzhou.
There is a dim sum chef surnamed Chen in the tea house, this Master Chen loves his wife very much, his wife is a Teochew native, living in Guangzhou, missing her hometown and not thinking about tea and dinner every day. Master Chen was very worried, one day, he picked the best snacks from the tea house and brought them back to make his wife happy; his wife was very moved, but she did not like to eat as much as he thought, and after eating a few bites, he put it down.
He was very curious, so he asked, "Madam, these are the signature snacks of our tea house, aren't they appetizing?" His wife said: "It's delicious, but it's slightly normal, not as good as my mother's winter melon horn." “
Master Chen was very unconvinced when he heard this, so he asked his wife to make a winter melon horn to taste; so his wife made a winter melon with cotton sugar and flour to make a browned yellow and chic winter melon horn; Master Chen ate one, and sure enough, the style was sweet, like a stream of sweet but not greasy, sticky but not sticky.
The next day, Master Chen took the remaining winter melon horn to the tea house for everyone to taste; everyone thought it was delicious, and the tea house owner was even more praised, asking him which tea house dim sum was this? Master Chen said: It was my teochew wife who made it.
The shop owner laughed and said, "Then call it wife cake!" He promoted Master Chen to be the general manager, responsible for improving the wife cake and selling it in the tea house.
Once introduced, the wife cake was very popular, and because it was catchy, it was passed down from generation to generation and is still used today.