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

December 26, 2024 Lisa Cam, SCMP

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.