Hongkongers can learn how to bake this chiffon cake featuring two symbols of anti-government protest in Hong Kong – the LIHKG Pig and Pepe the Frog – at Foodie Buddies in Lai Chi Kok, one of a number of bakeries that have adopted protest themes for cake decorations. Photo: Foodie Buddies.
Three bakeries making Hong Kong protest cakes like the one Cake International banned from competition
- Organisers ruled ‘offensive’ a cake whose icing had a Hong Kong protest theme at a contest in the UK, but similar cakes are flying off Hong Kong bakers’ shelves
- We talk to the creators of cakes such as Tear Gas Cloud and Liberate Hong Kong about the challenge of decorating them and how they chose their designs
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Hong Kong protests
Hongkongers can learn how to bake this chiffon cake featuring two symbols of anti-government protest in Hong Kong – the LIHKG Pig and Pepe the Frog – at Foodie Buddies in Lai Chi Kok, one of a number of bakeries that have adopted protest themes for cake decorations. Photo: Foodie Buddies.
Illustration: Craig Stephens
Opinion
Opinion
What Hong Kong’s protests mean for the city’s art market: an upsurge in creativity amid economic woes
- While professionals on the international circuit express concern about Hong Kong’s art market, the protests have generated a range of creative output
- How these art works can be preserved and how the creativity behind them can be channelled is worth considering
Illustration: Craig Stephens