Moon Cakes

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Its nearly the Mid-autumn festival again - a festival celebrated by many chinese although everyones welcome! This year it falls on the 6th October - a time for spending with family. Typically involves eating mooncakes. pretty pricey things over here, about £4 a cake. This year, ive been good - ive not eaten any thus far, although I have to own up to having gone through 2 boxes of tescos mince pies already :p They're so sweet, its almost like eating christmas pud.

Anyone else on the boards on the verge of eating mooncakes? :D
 
no, we get loads of mooncakes at this time of the year but no one really eats them in my house. Not the traditional lotus seed paste ones anyway. However the past couple of years i've noticed a lot of different style moon cakes and the "ice skin" mooncakes are ok.
 
What are mooncakes? I can't say I've ever heard of them. At £4 a pop I'd expect them to be nice :p
 
it's a traditional chinese food eaten during the mid-autumn festival.

It's basically a filling made with the ground up paste of lotus seeds, sugar, (quite a lot of oil) and whole salted duck egg yolks embedded inside. This is all wrapped in a very thin pastry and baked in the oven.

As you can imagine it's very unhealthy :D and aren't as popular with the more health concious generation so there are new style mooncakes nowadays with more healthier fillings etc etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_cakes
 
Can't say I've ever had one but they look pretty nice!

Anyone in the Swansea area care to drop some off for me?*




* hey come on, if you don't ask you don't get.
 
The thought of egg yolk in a cake makes me stomach crawl :(

They do look very small for £4 though, I take it duck eggs are expensive?
 
As with most things, its all about presentation - They used to come with a plastic knife and pronged fork-stabby thing, but these days they have been dropped to save the environment. Good idea, except these things come in metal tins typically! Usually pay more for double yolk cakes! Ive no idea why, but used to think it was cos it helped form the number 8 inside! On a side note, chinese have an obsession with all things '8' as its the lucky number in the culture. Hence the mad dash to have sprogs born in the August 8th, 1988! :D oy yeah, and their emails will typically be bob88888 at hotmail or something!
 
hsp70 said:
it's a traditional chinese food eaten during the mid-autumn festival.

It's basically a filling made with the ground up paste of lotus seeds, sugar, (quite a lot of oil) and whole salted duck egg yolks embedded inside. This is all wrapped in a very thin pastry and baked in the oven.

As you can imagine it's very unhealthy :D and aren't as popular with the more health concious generation so there are new style mooncakes nowadays with more healthier fillings etc etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_cakes
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Mmmmm, they look so good!
 
ours came in a nice card box
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I have to say, that jelly mooncake on Wikipedia looked thoroughly unappetising. Like brains covered in purple snot. Top one looked ok, though. I'll usually try anything once :)
 
I got some sent over to me from a chinese friend in Canada, theyre nice on the outside, but duck egg in the middle just doesn't go, and I don't like normal egg anyway so i just give it to my cats.
 
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