Which Moon Cakes do you like?

East_coast · 31-08-2014, 10:03 PM

Mid Autumn festival will soon be upon us.

Have you had any really good moon cakes yet?

Are you a traditional, snowy or contemporary moon cake eater - or will you try them all?

Proplus · 31-08-2014, 10:44 PM

I tend to be given a box of traditional (double yolk) every year and its in the fridge for a good few months before the missus and I ever finish it. I find it too filling, so if I do buy some for myself, its of the new snowy type.

Traditional mooncakes nowadays just don't taste as good anymore, as manufacturers have either cut down or stopped using lard to make them, and they don't ferment the sugar long enough. Going back a few decades, the sugar for mooncakes was prepped and started fermentation as soon as one Mid Autumn festival passed, to be ready for next year's batch. I remember as a kid, sitting in a Chinese restaurant's kitchen watching the chefs make mooncakes.

imparanoic · 31-08-2014, 11:04 PM

a lot of people don't like traditional moon cakes as they are too rich, not too dissimilar to christmas pudding

snowy/icy moon cakes are so-so, nothing special, very lightweight in taste

recently, egg custard based are refreshing different and probably best of both worlds

Natfixit · 01-09-2014, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by imparanoic:

a lot of people don't like traditional moon cakes as they are too rich, not too dissimilar to christmas pudding

snowy/icy moon cakes are so-so, nothing special, very lightweight in taste

recently, egg custard based are refreshing different and probably best of both worlds

The first mid autumn festival my husband and I experienced, we tried all different types of mooncakes, but all came up as meh. Rich, maybe, but we just did not like the texture and the " snowy" mooncakes were grainy rather than creamy. This year, we will be away, out of HK for mid autumn fest, but the artisian bakery in Mui Wo has introduced custard mooncakes for this year. Like the rest of what Kit and her team produces out of their oven there is very good quality, so one would expect some excellent custard mooncakes well worth the ferry ride and fare just to try.

huja · 01-09-2014, 01:13 AM

I like the ones that are lost while being shipped to me. They are a truly horrible food product.

Cwbguy · 01-09-2014, 06:16 AM

The best are always the ones I don't have to eat!

Skyhook · 01-09-2014, 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by East_coast:

Are you a traditional, snowy or contemporary moon cake eater - or will you try them all?

I am in the group that does not like any of them, the traditional ones, or the more gweilo friendly packed full of sugar snowy varieties. But then again, I am not into Christmas pudding, fruit cake or any of the traditional English desserts either.

As a kid maybe, but as a middle aged adult, just dont have the interest, nor sweet tooth for that sort of thing.

I get stock piled with a lifetime supply of moon cakes from a number of suppliers and clients that I deal with every year lol I end up giving them away to staff and family.

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kimwy66 · 01-09-2014, 07:45 AM

I like the ones that I get given, that then sit in my fridge uneaten, until I can safely assume no one that has given me any are going to pop round and expect to be offered some. At which point I bundle them up and give them to the local little old lady pushing an impossible mountain of cardboard boxes.