how china ruined dessert

tomorrow is our roommate dave's birthday, so he very generously offered us a slice of his birthday cake from a local chinese bakery. he mentioned beforehand that it was a green tea cake (as was already evident from its untraditional hue), but what he failed to specify until after we greedily plunged in our forks and hurled large chunks into our unsuspecting mouths was that the brown layer disguising itself as chocolate filling is actually red beans. red beans? birthday cake? china is not doing itself any favors with this one.

-rachel