Mooncakes Are The Shiznit

with the Mid Autumn Festival approaching this 6th of October (which is a good day for more than one reason!!), it can only mean one thing.

… the MOONCAKE is back!

for the past month, i’ve been going on a crazy mooncake sampling spree, what with all these funky flavours popping up everywhere (the latest being Cendol mooncake. omg?!) and all these wonderful people in my life who keep giving me mooncakes :D haha despite that i’m still not quite jelak of mooncakes yet. keep bringing them on, i say!

anyways, just thought i’d share 5 of my favourite mooncakes this time around. and dont you tell me you dont like mooncakes. cos everybody loves mooncakes!

Top 5 Mooncakes Of 2006! (so far)

1. Toffee Coconut Mooncake by HYT

Hei Yuet Thong’s toffee coconut mooncake is of the traditional baked variety, but with a lurvely toffee taste laced into its lotus paste filling. at first, i thought adding toffee to lotus paste would make the entire thing way too sweet, but it really tastes just right. the toffee is light and subtle, allowing you to still taste the fragrance of the lotus paste.

this mooncake has a roasted coconut centre that is unbelievably yummy. it’s got a bit of a gula melaka (palm sugar) taste to it, and goes very well with the toffee! this coconut centre along with the kuaci (melon seeds) in the toffee lotus paste lends such texture to each bite. oh damn these crunchy stuff, always leaving me wanting more.

it goes for RM 9.90, and you can get it at Jusco supermarkets.

2. Mini Snowskin Durian Mooncake by Neubay Garden

get this, people - this snowskin mooncake’s filling is REAL durian pulp! lovely genuine, bona fide, unadulterated durian pulp!!! hahaha none of that yucky durian flavoured lotus paste shit, yo. because Neubay Garden uses real durian pulp, the taste of durian in this mooncake is really strong, natural and doesnt have that gross artificial taste. i totally recommend this for durian lovers.

goes for rm4.90, and you can get their mooncakes at the Neubay Garden restaurant in Kampung Pandan or at Jusco supermarkets.

3. Nyonya Sambal Mooncake by Yong Sheng

for the past few weeks, i’ve been pimping this mooncake to ANYONE who will listen to me. i’m like, ‘eh you guys! guess what! that day i had the best ever *SAMBAL* MOONCAKE okay!!!’

.. and the reaction i get every. single. time. is “YUCK!”

haih! people, you must open your mind to all these totally weird but amazing combinations of flavours! but er i must admit that before i met the saleswoman at the Yong Sheng mooncake stand, i was a narrow-minded fool too. i was buying their cheese mooncake (which is bloody good as well, it would have been number 6 if this was a top 6 list) when i saw this sambal mooncake in the display. i pointed at it and said to her, ‘yerr people actually buy that wan ah’. then she opened her eyes wide like this O__O and went ‘miss!!! it’s our bestseller!!!’ i totally didnt believe her. but she insisted it was damn good, and she was so passionate about it, that i just had to see what all the fuss was about. so i bought one home. and tried it.

and i fell in mad, orgasmic love. i swear it. it’s so fucking fantastic that i love it even more than my boyfriend :D

so what it is, is baked skin mooncake with lotus paste and a sambal centre. if you dont know why this is weird .. well it’s cos spicy shrimp paste (sambal!) doesnt usually find its way into mooncakes. or anything sweet for that matter. but see this is the utter genius behind Yong Sheng’s bestseller mooncake (ok aunty i believe you now)! the lotus paste filling isnt as sweet as in most mooncakes, and its subtlety blends in with the savoury sambal like you wont believe. the sambal is not overly spicy either, but is just right. furthermore, in between the baked skin and the filling, there’s this crumbly biscuit layer that just adds more oomph to each bite. yum. this mooncake is an amazing combo of sweet and savoury, and i totally love it, and i will continue to pimp it to everyone i know.

priced at RM 9.75, and you can get it at, yes, Jusco supermarkets.

4. Milk Chocolate Mooncake With Peanut Butter and Puffed Rice Crunch by Mandarin Oriental

Lai Po Heen, the chinese restaurant at the Mandarin does not disappoint once again! encased in a hard milk chocolate shell, this pseudo-mooncake has a filling of totally orgasmic chunky peanut butter along with crunchy bits of puffed rice. the milk chocolate used to make the shell is of fantastic quality, and the whole thing is just *insanely* addictive. it’s like every girl’s PMS solution, man.

(eh guys you can buy this for your girlfriends! they will love it!)

it’s quite reminiscent of the Mars candybar and Reese’s peanut butter cups. haha two things i really like, so it’s no surprise that i absolutely love this mooncake :D i think i’m gonna go back to MO tomorrow and buy some more..

priced at RM 9. you can get it from Lai Po Heen, Mandarin Oriental’s chinese restaurant on the 1st floor.

5. Mini Snowskin Mango Cheese Cake Mooncake by the Prince Hotel

this snowskin mooncake is one of those that you just wanna keep eating. one bite’s not enough, seriously. the cold mango-flavoured snowskin goes well with the cheese filling, and is so refreshing that you cant do with just one portion of it. just gotta have another! :D the snowskin has one of the better textures i’ve seen - not powdery nor too chewy. and the cream cheese filling is great - it doesnt have that cloying feeling that cream cheese normally gives you, but instead has a very light and delicate taste that is just perfect for snowskin-type mooncakes! there are bits of dried mango in the cheese filling as well, which make the mooncake taste absolutely heavenlyyyyy when you pop it into your mouth.

so yummy and refreshing. i lurve it :D

this one goes for RM 10.50, and you can buy them at the top floor of Isetan KLCC as well as Prince Hotel’s chinese restaurant Tai Zi Heen.

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this list is in no particular order - my favourites in this list are the Sambal Mooncake and the Chocolate Peanut Butter one :)

oh and if you wanna buy the traditional type mooncakes like plain lotus paste, red bean paste, pandan paste blablabla - buy Tai Thong’s! so the best!

other mooncakes i liked :
Mini Snowskin Chocolate Whiskey by Prince Hotel
Peanut Butter Snowskin Mooncake with Yam Custard by Tai Thong
Cocoa Chocolate Chip Mooncake by Baker’s Cottage
Snowskin Black Sesame Mooncake by Lavender
Coffee Macadamia Mooncake by Renaissance Hotel

Comments September 18th, 2006