mooncake

1 October 2006, 14:21

ah its that time of year again: the mid-autumn festival, better known as the mooncake festival where the traditional food is the mooncake… the mooncake festival is my 2nd favourite eating holiday (the first being easter of course yumyum). different types of fillings can be found in traditional mooncakes according to the region culture- i prefer lotus seed paste with double egg yolk! ive tried quadruple egg yolk before but there was hardly any lotus paste in between all the saltiness!

a bit of trivia from wikipedia: ‘Mooncake were used as a medium by the Ming revolutionaries in their espionage effort to secretly distribute letters in order to overthrow the Mongolian rulers of China in the Yuan dynasty. Noting that the Mongols did not eat mooncakes, Liu Bowen, advisor to a Chinese rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, came up with the idea of timing the rebellion to coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival.’

pretty cool huh?

 

 

  1. Ooooh egg yolk. It’s like finding a treasure chest. Actually the whole lot’s preeetty good. Nothing bad about it at all.

    — amie    Oct 3, 09:37 PM    #

  2. That looks good! Can’t have too much of it, though, but it’s hard not to want seconds after i’ve had a sliver of mooncake.

    — jl    Oct 8, 07:44 PM    #

  3. SUSAN! i mean, DUDE! how are ya? i havent been here for like, heaps ages. Hope u are doing well! I shall be visiting more often now that I found ur link again. =) See u at the next “get-together” hehe.
    Oh and p.s. I love mooncakes.

    — Connie    Oct 29, 06:54 PM    #

  4. Hi, do you happen to know where can i order a box of mooncake in sydney or Mel?

    — BS    Sep 4, 05:59 PM    #

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