Let them eat cake

A few weeks ago I was in Hong Kong for a couple of days, staying at the Mandarin Oriental - one of my favourite hotels in Asia - and found myself wandering past the cake shop.  As well as the normal fare, there were a number of demonstrations of the patissier's art exhibited in glass cases - like the one on the left.  Yes folks, that really is cake, the whole thing - the clown, the dogs, the ball.  I've never seen anything quite like it and I wanted to share it with you.  If one were to write a haiku about it, it would probably go something like this:


Would the peasants have
rebelled if they got to eat
this cake? Perhaps not.