More than 100 customers show up at Hong Kong’s Happy Cake Shop to bid farewell to popular bakery ahead of closure
- Queue forms early on Thursday morning after shop announced a day before that it had failed to renew lease
- Closure is the latest in a string of shutdowns of classic eateries in the city
More than 100 customers queued up at Happy Cake Shop in Wan Chai on Thursday morning, after the popular 45-year-old bakery announced it would close for good next week.
A notice posted online on Wednesday said the shop on Queen’s Road East would serve its last customer on August 2 because it had failed to renew its rental agreement with the building’s owner. Customers are urged to visit a remaining branch in Ma On Shan.
“Thank you for the support of all customers over the past 45 years,” the notice stated.
As early as 9am on Thursday, more than 20 people were seen in line at the Wan Chai outlet to bid farewell to their favourite haunt.
Shopkeepers were also taking calls from customers who wanted to pre-order before coming down. “There are already too many orders, and we dare not take any more,” a staff member was heard telling patrons.
The shop later posted a notice saying each customer was only limited to three cream horns, one of its signature offerings comprising flaky, puffy pastry with whipped cream.
