Mid-Autumn Festival

Wishing you all a warm Mid-Autumn Fest. Every year, this festival makes me want to puke seeing varies moon cakes available. I dont like them since I was a child as the skin texture is thin and there will be loads of red beans in it. I once did a charity and make 50 red bean moon cakes to raise funds for the Chinese Society in my school, yes it was halal. Thou traditionally, there is a moon cake which has nuts and pork in them.

Moon cake has evolved to another era where you can now find SAMBAL as an ingredient. There are even more bizarre.

After 2000, many people begin to realize traditional moon cakes are not healthy. Once MaMa-tze came out with Agar-Agar Moon Cakes. Haagen Daz too came out with their ice-cream moon cakes. Quick search, icylifememories blog about it. Believe me, many join the band wagon... let me recall seeing brand such as Sushi King, Starbucks, Baker's Cottage and I remembered there was once S.H.E. too sold it in a very nice packaging in Malaysia/Singapore only. My pal send a whole collection to his SHE-finactic friend in Taiwan.

Let me introduce my readers to my brother-chief-tze, he is a low rank chief in a well known Chinese Restaurant in KL. He is brushing his skills from well known chief in the Chinese Restaurant business, and of-coz his great teacher/student of all time Senior-tze. He made some great moon cakes over the past 2 years, their restaurant was rated on of the best moon cake makers this year. Rated without any awards thou.

Here are some of the homemade moon cakes that my family make, hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy eating them.

This is Snow Skin Moon Cakes Durian Lotus, then the green will be Green Tea. Receipe of the paste was from Senior-Tze, Ingredients will be by Brother-Chief-Tze and Production+Packaging was done by Mama-Tze.

Once bitten on the paste of the snow skin moon cake, there was a rather bouncy texture which taste of sweet & cold candy. Then when the durian spread towards the tongue as of I had a durians instead. Yes, brother-chief-tze uses real durians and cooked with lotus.

MaMa-tze other special Agar-Agar Moon Cakes
Yellow : Durian Lotus / Green : Green Tea Lotus / Red : Red Bean / Purple : unknown

The Durian has strong Aroma and Taste, not meant for the weak

Which role was I on the whole process? Taste/Test Rat. Only limited moon cakes was produced and sold only by demand orders.

Somehow or rather I will still enjoy moon cakes with traditional hot chinese tea, with family and friends. Children still light up the lanterns and candles on the porch. This year Mid-Autumn festival will be on Sunday, hope you all have a wonderful time. If you had no plans yet, there is still time to make one.