What are 'Mooncakes'?
Mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅; pinyin: yuè bĭng) is aChinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu). The festival is for lunar worship together with Luna watching, when mooncakes are regarded every bit an indispensable delicacy. Mooncakes are offered betwixt friends or on identify unit of measurement gatherings spell celebrating the festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is i of the 4 almost of import Chinese festivals.
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Wandering to a greater extent than or less inwards this menstruation it was clear that it was a Chinese Holiday Season - at that topographic point were Mooncakes inwards the shops. I wandered to a greater extent than or less together with bought a selection!
The selected mooncakes were from:
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| The Metropole |
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| Keng-Tin |
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| Robinsons |
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| Ko Hor Mooncake shop |
Ko Hor Mooncake Shop was wonderful - at that topographic point he was rolling, cutting, preparing, baking, glazing mooncakes - wonderful. This was sure enough a particular identify to see (but what does he bake the residual of the year)!?
I volition see i time to a greater extent than at the destination of the calendar month to come across what else he is preparing inwards his apparently good performance oven.
He was rolling the dense pastry together with and then filling it amongst a 'filling' - move it mixed fruit, Durian Paste, Watermelon - the disclose of types were tremendous
I took a piece of each i together with had a bite....
I am distressing exactly - no give cheers you. The pastry was dense together with also a piffling sweetness - amongst some hot thick gravy I would imagine that these were rattling edible exactly they weren't.
Then the fillings of each i seemed to gustation less of what I had idea that the filling was supposed to be... non a expert sense amongst whatever of the mooncakes!
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| Swensens |
So the winner was Ko Hor Mooncake store because I could sentinel whilst he makes them.
Thank you.