9/28/07 | Mooncakes
[ Currently Eating: Grilled Miso Salmon ]
Whee… some extra Cheap Eats coverage before you head off into the weekend. This is a Pineapple Moon Cake from this past Tuesday’s Moon Cake Festival (or Lantern Festival, or Mid-Autumnal Festival) which occurs near the Autumn Equinox.
The mooncakes, which have a thin outer pastry-type crust or wrapping, also come with a variety of different ingredients including lotus seed, duck egg, mung bean, red bean, and dates. They are often pretty sweet (I haven’t really tried the savory versions yet), so I usually cut it up into quarters (or eighths!) and just eat one or two pieces.
One thing - these cakes are NOT Cheap Eats. They can be quite expensive, depending on the quality. I got this one from my mother-in-law - we usually don’t buy the boxes of cakes that they sell.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am
i thought this was cheap eats not a gourmet food review WHATS UP anybody else agree or disagree
September 29th, 2007 at 11:17 am
I post whatever I feel like actually. But if you want to get technical, I didn’t pay for this, so… =)
October 1st, 2007 at 9:52 am
Gourmet food? Nah. Artery buster - yeah. The sweet ones are pretty good - you should try the ones with five nuts or the white lotus paste ones. You can get them in single cake wrappers now.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
I’ve had them quite a few times, only the Mung and Red bean ones though. They always look good, but I am continually disappointed. I keep hoping to acquire the taste, but I guess I’m too optimistic.
And Jason, calm down, if you don’t like it, don’t read it. It’s a food blog, he posts about food. You better not look at the Hall of Shame, you might have a coronary.