Apparently you can buy a wedding cake at KFC

I was craving for some fatty, greasy food. Don't judge me, I am recuperating from flu. The last time I went to a KFC outlet was last month. I was in a hurry. So today, while thinking of which food to order, I saw a plateful of profiteroles in the side dish section.

What? Profiteroles? Am I in the right place. I usually associate profiteroles with croquembouche. And croquembouche with wedding cake. Wedding cake in a fast food restaurant. Not a big surprise considering that I am in an Asian country. One can have a wedding party in McDonald's in Hong Kong. Why not?

I have a strange fascination with wedding cake. When I was younger, my sister and a neighbour would draw their wedding gown. The more layer, the better. Longer trains, even better. Flowery veils is a must. I think that's what girls our generation do.

I can't draw a wedding dress. They would scold me. So I drew a lots of wedding cakes. More tiers the better. I drew a 10 tiered cake. Only 10 because I can only count up to 10 at that time. Imagine if it's a real one. The happy couple need to stand on a step ladder to cut the topmost tier. A 10 tiered wedding cake is not impossible considering that I've seen a 7 tiered wedding cake in real life. It's about 6 feet tall. Standing proudly near a bakery. The display was near to an escalator. What a spectacle.

This particular cake was displayed in a very tall display, in a shopping mall. In it's heyday, this shopping mall is the only air-conditioned shopping mall. When we were little, this shopping mall is the happiest place to be in. Well I grew up in a small town. The shopping mall is now a bit dilapidated. The younger generation wouldn't understand the magic in that mall in it's heyday.

Being the most modern shopping mall at that time, most high end business opened here. Toy shop, watch dealers, to fashion. Yes, back then, bumping into a Caucasian or Africans is common. There were a lots of foreigners helping us with our oil and gas production. Finding foreign products is easy. Still is. It's understandable for the most modern mall to sell high end products.

Back to the wedding cake. This 7 tiered wedding cake looks delicious. I would dream of finishing it off by myself. White fondant icing with a few piped trims. And as usually a happy couple figurine as the cake topper. It's immaculate.

One thing that one would ponder upon is, is it a real cake? It's been in the display for years. It's either that the display was too sterile or the cake is not a cake. An enigma. My mother would lecture us on food preservatives when asked on why the cake didn't spoil. My cousin Abigail hypothesized that the bakery bakes the cake every day. Replacing the previous one bought by a happy couple. What a romantic.

The mystery was solved when I starts to read Wikipedia. Apparently, not all tiers are real fruit cake. Some are dummy cake i.e. iced Styrofoam. Only the topmost tier contains the real fruit cake. Fruit cake is the cake of choice because it would last up to 1 year, when it was supposed to be eaten for the 1st wedding anniversary or the first child Christening. Thanks Wikipedia.

The cake looks delicious even when it's not real.

It's also from Wikipedia that I got the information that not everybody celebrates wedding with a wedding cake. The French would serve croquembouche on their wedding. Croquembouche is basically a heap of profiteroles arranged into a cone, decorated with chocolate shavings or spun sugar. A cone shaped cream puffs.

Max did one on 2 Broke Girls. Or at least studied one.

While paying for my Double Max, still amused by the fact that this outlet sells French wedding cake, or a part of it, I told the cashier. "Hey, actually, that profiteroles is somewhat a French wedding cake*"

Okay now for the reference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_cake
The article evolves in Wikipedia. In the earlier version, it did say something about dummy cake.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cake-dummy.htm
Cake dummy

Croquembouche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquembouche

Profiteroles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiterole

And Hong Kong McDonald's
http://www.mcdonalds.com.hk/en/parties/wedding-party.html

Buzzfeed also deserve a credit on Hong Kong's McDonald's wedding party. Fast forward to 1:02 if you don't have the time to watch all. (But watching the full video is actually fun. It's full of fun trivia. So take your time)

11 Facts About Hong Kong You Probably Don't Know

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*in this region, a type of toast share the same name (or somewhat similar name) with wedding cake. This particular toast is spread with butter or margarine and coconut custard. The name is probably due to the appearance of the 2 toasted breads 'stuck' together. A happy couple.