Chinese Mooncake
By mimico
@mimico (3617)
Philippines
September 13, 2008 5:02am CST
The Chinese lunar Festival is just around the corner! So in celebration of that, let's talk about one of the best Chinese sweets out there- the mooncake! It's called a mooncake because they only make it during the lunar (moon) festival. It's sometimes squarish, but it's generally supposed to be round for good luck. Traditional mooncakes have red bean or azuki bean filling. Nowadays though, they've diversified by adding nuts and eggs as well as other flavors. Green tea mooncake and chocolate mooncake (it was like a brownie that looked like a monncake)are just some of the more unique flavors I've tried this year.
So tell me, have you tried mooncake before? if so, do you like it?
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6 responses
@emarie (5440)
• United States
14 Sep 08
honestly, i don't think i've eaten it. i might have at one point but don't remember. i like the dried candies. i can't remember what they're called since its been almost 10 years since i've eaten it. i can't find much where i live now. before, i would just go to the local manapua shop where they had everything.
@emarie (5440)
• United States
14 Sep 08
i grew up in Hawaii so asian food was all around. i do miss that factor about Hawaii. i've been to japan and i'm Filipino so i LOVE Filipino deserts. i love Chinese food in general and since i can't find most of it i have to learn to make it on my own...*sign* hard work. but i do wish to travel to china, and even take my children since its part of their heritage as well since i'm a tiny bit Chinese as well. my kids look all Japanese though since my husband is full Japanese.
and yes, i love anime and that Rukia
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
14 Sep 08
Hey Emarie, it's too bad you don't have a Chinese store near your place. I find Chinese delicacies to be one of the best in the world. Of course, I'm partial to Asian food. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino are my all time favorite cuisines. Hopefully you'll be able to travel to China or Hong Kong sometime and taste all the glorious foodstuff you've been missing all your life! Cheers!
P.S. Is that a Bleach character on your avatar?!
@pehpot (4762)
• Philippines
13 Sep 08
Oh I never had a taste of moon cake before. now you are making me curious about it. the only Chinese delicacy I have tasted is the sticky one that you fry with some egg, what do you call it? here they call it tikoy..
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
14 Sep 08
Oh no! You should definitelt go out and get yourself at least one mooncake before the season ends. It might even e cheaper now because mooncake festival is just around the corner. I don't know what you call tikoy in english actually I've always just called it tikoy. ;) Have you tried cooking tikoy wrapped in lumpia? It's quite good..
@hiddenwing (3719)
• China
13 Sep 08
Mooncake is a festival symbol anyway. To tell u the truth, I don't really like the taste. My mom always asks me to eat it on mid-autumn day. For my mom's sake, I try to eat one or two.
On the other hand, lots of people have what it takes to eat mooncakes. Tomorrow is mooncake day, people crowded in the supermarket to buy them. Some of the mooncakes are very expensive. I don't know weahter they deserve it. If u ever try to eat it...
I don't judge..
It always depends.
Granted, taste is individual
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
14 Sep 08
Wow you're the first person I know who doesn't like the taste of mooncakes! I agree with you though that some are really expensive. And it's too bad because it's the packaging that makes it expensive and not the product itself. I just went on a trip to Shanghai a few days ago and the airport had a lot of mooncake for sale. I really wanted to buy a box to taste the 'authentic' mooncake, but I didn't want to fork over a hundred plus RMB just for some mooncake!
@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
13 Sep 08
Oh I love mooncakes
!! They are delicious and yes they are only available during Chinese Lunar Festival. We always buy mooncakes when its available. We visit chinese stores so we know they're really chinese made. I love the ones with eggs on it but my brothers and sisters likes the original flavor. Well actually I do eat any kind of flavor as long as its mooncake
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Ciao!
!! They are delicious and yes they are only available during Chinese Lunar Festival. We always buy mooncakes when its available. We visit chinese stores so we know they're really chinese made. I love the ones with eggs on it but my brothers and sisters likes the original flavor. Well actually I do eat any kind of flavor as long as its mooncake.
Ciao!@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
14 Sep 08
Hello there! Thanks for uploading a mooncake photo as well. We've about eaten all the mooncakes at home already. And yes, we buy them from Chinese stores as well. I've never actually seen mooncakes being sold at non-Chinese stores. have you?! I guess it's easy to make which is why French chefs can make their own version. But the Chinese version is perfect with the soft outer layer and sweet bean filling. :)
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
13 Sep 08
Over here, the mooncake festival (or lantern festival) is really commercialised. We still have the traditional mooncakes with the lotus or red bean paste, with single, double or even four salted egg yolks.
However many bakeries, hotels and restaurants came out with new flavors like dragonfruit, tiramisu, coffee, chocolate, the white snow-skin and even jelly mooncakes. Some of them are really good! 
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
14 Sep 08
Wow where are you from? Mooncake festival is also somewhat commercialized here in my country. i think as long as it's profitable, it becomes commercialized. Which is why Chinese New Year is a big big thing in my country even if we're not in China at all! Anyway, I've never had a 4-egg mooncake! I'd love to try that one because I do love the eggs! And those flavors you mentioned are just amazing!!! I've tried chocolate mooncake already but I'm very curious about the white snow skin and jelly mooncakes...
