[Marshall Placid]

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.

[SkinnyPupp]

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:

[6793026]

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.

[m3thods]

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.

[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

[Marshall Placid]

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".

: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.

[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.

[willystyle]

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.

[SkinnyPupp]

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

:considered:

[HonestTea]

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

[Marshall Placid]

Haagen-Dazs mooncakes

Where did you get them?

[SkinnyPupp]

Where did you get them?
:derp:

[HonestTea]

Where did you get them?

I had it in Hong Kong.

Looks like this
http://blog.generalmills.com/wp-content/uploads/mooncakes2.jpg

[pastarocket]

The Maxim's bakery red bean mooncakes are pretty good.

[SkinnyPupp]

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.

[m3thods]

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.

[SkinnyPupp]

That same flavour yes, but they're not runny... They were good!

[HonestTea]

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

[krystal01]

Relatively speaking,I like cold mooncakes.
But I think too sweet for all the mooncakes I eaten.

[StylinRed]

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)

[Skittlez160]

I will always go for a slice with the most yolk. That combination of yolk + crust :sweetjesus:

Oh man, I'm so on board with that lol.

I usually end up just getting the ones from T&T, good enough! :P