Mooncakes - Mid-Autumn Festival 2014 Do post anything and everything about Moon cakes... for 2014. It's the season, again! Favourite flavour(s)? Where to buy? Pics? Post them up. I'll start: Absolutely love Maxim's Bakery Pandan snow skin moon cakes!:toot: Also like the "D24" durian snow skin moon cakes from T&T. Do not like the egg yolk regular moon cakes though. But, I am okay with the "regular" moon cakes WITHOUT egg yolks. |
Those "snow" ones are pretty gross... Just bean paste and sugar without much flavour :heckno: I like the classic style, but not a big fan of the paste so I will always go for a slice with the most yolk. That combination of yolk + crust :sweetjesus: |
love the cold mooncakes. theyare smaller and not as filling esp with the unique fillings. i've always been used to mooncakes with 4 yokes and theones with nuts. i'm heading back to hk soon and I'm looking for a 5 yoke this time. |
mmm love me some moon cakes. I find I can only finish about half of a normal one nowadays. Back in the day when I was a teenager I could probably wolf down 2 in one sitting just for the yolks. My fiancee and her family are more into the cold ones nowadays. To be honest they're ok. But I recently tried some durian ones (you could get 4 small ones for ~$7 at Pricesmart Grandview/Richmond, or 4 big ones for $40 at T&T). God I'm hooked. In the last 2 weeks I've had 8 small ones and 3 big ones. |
Love eating moon cakes however someone always has to mention how many calories are in one. Then I just feel guilty eating more than a quarter at a time |
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I was reading it and it read: "221 calories" I was thinking, oh yeah, it's OKAY! I read more carefully, and BAM: It says "Per 1/4 cake". :failed: That's 884 calories per mooncake! Or.... you can have 8 scoops of ice cream (on average). Volume wise, you can have 8 times more ice cream for every 1 mooncake you eat. I've heard, and I'm not 100% sure, that a lot of lard is in mooncakes? That could explain why. |
Mooncakes have a lot of lard in them, which is why they are dense in calories and meant to be shared. Well I doubt any of them use lard any more - they all probably use hydrogenated vegetable oil instead. |
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Not a big fan of the cold ones. I've also tried Haagen-Dazs mooncakes and they were alright.. Still prefer the classic ones with 4 yolks :D |
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Looks like this http://blog.generalmills.com/wp-cont...mooncakes2.jpg |
The Maxim's bakery red bean mooncakes are pretty good. |
Had 3 different mooncakes last night http://i.imgur.com/2g6tly0.jpg - Normal mooncakes from Maxims - what you'd expect. Quite greasy. They use peanut oil, so it's not as bad as it could be I suppose - Custard mooncakes from Maxims - pretty good, but not a very strong yolk taste. Texture is really doughy - Custard mooncakes from some fancy hotel - these were the best. Flavour reminds me of those melted custard buns you get at dim sum sometimes. Very strong yolk flavour, these were quite good. |
Skinny- by custard buns do you mean the yellow runny "yolk" buns (loh sa bao I think)? If so I will move heaven and earth to get those in Vancouver if anyone can point me in the right direction. |
That same flavour yes, but they're not runny... They were good! |
Got these last year and they were pretty damn good! But expensive and hard to get. They taste very similar to the custard buns. http://s30.postimg.org/55jyraooh/photo_2.jpg |
Relatively speaking,I like cold mooncakes. But I think too sweet for all the mooncakes I eaten. |
I like Da Boss' (dai fuk in canto) bing pi mooncakes with the green bean paste, its not too sweet and the green bean is more cake like than paste (like a brownie) but ever since Da Boss closed in POCOs Henderson Place i've been too lazy and unable to find their other locations (if they still exist) |
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I usually end up just getting the ones from T&T, good enough! :P |
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