Who is Maria Lee, Hong Kong’s Queen of Cakes? ‘Extraordinary Life’ of Bakery Founder Told

The cover of Kenneth Leung Wai-yin and Andrea Ngai Yiu-chi’s book. Photo Credit: Joint Publishing

Maria Lee built a bakery empire, saw it go into liquidation, and moved on and up. Summing up her life was a challenge, her biographer says

There is no Wikipedia page in English about Maria Lee Tseng Chiu-kwan. But ask a Hongkonger over the age of 40 and chances are that many will know her name.

The 95-year-old “Queen of Cakes” was the owner and face of Maria’s, one of Hong Kong’s largest bakery franchises. The bakery had branches in Taiwan and the United States and, during the 1980s, was bigger than fellow rival Maxim’s Cakes.

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