The best cake in eastern China is Malaysian

Secret Recipe's award-winning chocolate brulee cake is a layered beauty consisting of a base biscuit layer, mud cake, vanilla creme brulee, chocolate mousse and a chocolate glaze. Photo: Secret Recipe

If you’re after the best cake in Eastern China, you don’t actually have to go all the way to China to get it! Secret Recipe, the popular Malaysian-owned café brand, was the winner of the Best Cake Award for Eastern China, beating out 7,000 other competitors for the title.

The brand’s delectable chocolate brulee cake nabbed the coveted regional prize in the Best Cake in China Award, which aims to uncover the best cakes across six regions in China.