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08-27-2014, 11:25 PM
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| Mooncakes - Mid-Autumn Festival 2014
Do post anything and everything about Moon cakes... for 2014.
It's the season, again!
Favourite flavour(s)?
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Absolutely love Maxim's Bakery Pandan snow skin moon cakes! 
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.
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08-28-2014, 01:10 AM
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Those "snow" ones are pretty gross... Just bean paste and sugar without much flavour 
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  | |
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08-28-2014, 05:49 AM
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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.
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08-28-2014, 09:46 AM
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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.
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08-28-2014, 01:20 PM
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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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08-28-2014, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Coren  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 | It's funny... how one of the mooncake brands label their calories...
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". 
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.
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08-28-2014, 10:59 PM
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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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08-29-2014, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp 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. | You would need to go to a very old school bakehouse to get it made with lard. Can't imagine how good that would taste.
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08-29-2014, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by willystyle You would need to go to a very old school bakehouse to get it made with lard. Can't imagine how good that would taste. | Or make your own.. it shouldn't be that hard actually  | |
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08-29-2014, 07:38 PM
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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  | 
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08-29-2014, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by HonestTea Haagen-Dazs mooncakes | Where did you get them?
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Originally Posted by Marshall Placid Where did you get them? |  | |
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08-29-2014, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Marshall Placid Where did you get them? | I had it in Hong Kong.
Looks like this  | |
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08-30-2014, 03:03 PM
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The Maxim's bakery red bean mooncakes are pretty good.
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08-30-2014, 11:32 PM
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Had 3 different mooncakes last night 
- 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.
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08-31-2014, 09:35 AM
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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.
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08-31-2014, 09:53 AM
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That same flavour yes, but they're not runny... They were good!
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08-31-2014, 05:25 PM
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Got these last year and they were pretty damn good! But expensive and hard to get.
They taste very similar to the custard buns. 
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09-01-2014, 01:30 AM
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Relatively speaking,I like cold mooncakes.
But I think too sweet for all the mooncakes I eaten.
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09-01-2014, 02:02 AM
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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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09-03-2014, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp I will always go for a slice with the most yolk. That combination of yolk + crust | Oh man, I'm so on board with that lol.
I usually end up just getting the ones from T&T, good enough! :P
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