Bloggers Wil and Igorot Blogger asked what a mooncake is. The occassion for mooncakes, the Moon Festival, is already over, but to satisfy curiosity, allow me to still blog about it.
According to this site, which also explains the origins/legends of the Moon Festival, "While baked goods are a common feature at most Chinese celebrations, mooncakes are inextricably linked with the Moon festival. One type of traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste. Roughly the size of a human palm, these mooncakes are quite filling, meant to be cut diagonally in quarters and passed around. A word of caution: the salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste.
More elaborate versions of mooncakes contain four egg yolks (representing the four phases of the moon). Besides lotus seed paste, other traditional fillings include red bean paste and black bean paste. Unfortunately for dieters, mooncakes are rather high in calories.While in the past mooncakes took up to four weeks to make, automation has speeded up the process considerably. Today, mooncakes may be filled with everything from dates, nuts, and fruit to Chinese sausages.
More exotic creations include green tea mooncakes, and ping pei or snowskin mooncakes, a Southeast Asian variation made with cooked glutinous rice flour. Haagen-Daz has even gotten into the act by introducing a line of ice cream mooncakes in Asian markets."
With that introduction, here are some different kinds, but I'm sure there are a lot more interesting ones.
According to this site, which also explains the origins/legends of the Moon Festival, "While baked goods are a common feature at most Chinese celebrations, mooncakes are inextricably linked with the Moon festival. One type of traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste. Roughly the size of a human palm, these mooncakes are quite filling, meant to be cut diagonally in quarters and passed around. A word of caution: the salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste.
More elaborate versions of mooncakes contain four egg yolks (representing the four phases of the moon). Besides lotus seed paste, other traditional fillings include red bean paste and black bean paste. Unfortunately for dieters, mooncakes are rather high in calories.While in the past mooncakes took up to four weeks to make, automation has speeded up the process considerably. Today, mooncakes may be filled with everything from dates, nuts, and fruit to Chinese sausages.
More exotic creations include green tea mooncakes, and ping pei or snowskin mooncakes, a Southeast Asian variation made with cooked glutinous rice flour. Haagen-Daz has even gotten into the act by introducing a line of ice cream mooncakes in Asian markets."
With that introduction, here are some different kinds, but I'm sure there are a lot more interesting ones.
The Traditional Mooncake
The Chinese characters probably tell you what the flavor is.
The Chinese characters probably tell you what the flavor is.
The Mini Mooncake
This one is pandan flavor, I guess.
The Proudly Indonesian 'Kue Bulan' (mooncake)
This one has chocolate filling.
The Oink Mooncake?
This is the most unusual mooncake I have seen so far.
So now you know what a mooncake is! =) You should check out the site above for the origins/legends of the Moon Festival. I heard the historical version from a member of my family group, but the romantic version adds another dimension to it.
8 comments:
sausage as filling? hahaha. which one has that? the oink mooncake? hehee.
I don't know if I've ever tasted a moon cake, but the red or black bean paste sounds good. And that Indonesian mooncake looks huge. That must have lots of chocolate inside.
Thanks for answering Bill and I's question. :D
grabe naman yung moon cake na pig mo, parang ayaw magpakain:)
Will have the original na lang. It looks the real thing!
Da oink oink mooncake is a little bit deppressing. If I bite the front, oink oink is smiling, can't do it! The rear part might have that crappy smell. Either way is horrendous!, hehe......
They're like siopao's to me....
Cheers and goodhealth.
Wil, havent tried one with sausage filling, or lotus paste with red eggs either, but yes, the red or black bean paste tastes delicious. Dont know whats inside the oink mooncake though hehehe...
Ay na, the 'kue bulan' was too much even for a chocoholic like me. I even ate it with a friend pero di talaga namin maubos kaya nagsorry na lang ako sa nagbigay hehehe..
Hi Mng Abella, kaya siguro ginawang baboy para pandisplay at ng di makain =)
Sir TB, u r truly HILARIOUS! Hehehehe... If u think that way, then u definitely cannot eat the oink mooncake =)
Ah, mooncake pala ang tawag diyan, I have seen that in some stores here but I never new its name.
Out of topic: Puwede bang gamitin ang real name mo sa letter writing campaign ng MP group re. Halsema? So I can ask Dan to include it. Or Fongakhan lang talaga :-)
Thanks
yeah. the traditional mooncake looks delicious.:-)
if you sliced that piggy mooncake, it might look more palatable. the smiling face and the 'crap spewer' need to be discarded, though, to eradicate all negative thoughts. hehe.
a neighbor of ours came home from taiwan during the moon festival. she brought with her packages of mooncakes with the red eggs filling. the people were laughing about the smell. i had to eat all five cakes in the packet they opened so as not to offend.
hehehe, di pa amining matakaw!
masarap siya, promise! yun nga lang, sinali yata dun yung rear part nung oinkoink! :)
ano ba? sobrang panis na panis na at inaamag na pati tong mooncake dito! 'belleng mob sis ta nabnabsug dan!
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