Mooncakes Are The Shiznit
September 18th, 2006
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
33 Comments Add your own
1. prawn | September 18th, 2006 at 6:31 am
Hehe, 1st time being 1st =P
Wahhhhh…. ur food review memang mouth watering =)_
To bad in nz they dont have that many variety =_(
2. Lalita | September 18th, 2006 at 6:35 am
Eh, eh … everytime I come over here at bedtime there is always something super delicious to view! Makes me hungry to even look at it lah. I must say, in my present state of mind, that sambal mooncake looks dee-lish.
What can I say, mooncake is delicious … period. I could eat one … right about now …! If I wasn’t living in God knows how far away from the nearest available mooncake …
3. Jay | September 18th, 2006 at 7:01 am
What’s a mooncake?
4. sieutheng | September 18th, 2006 at 10:09 am
omg how fattening… but who cares. its only once a year!
i love mooncakes too :D especially those traditional lotus paste wan. preferably single yolk only. hehe
hmmmm my mouth is watering right now.
5. -archangel- | September 18th, 2006 at 11:21 am
omg omg omg
i didn’t even know such mooncakes existed
i must be living in a kampung =(
6. cK | September 18th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
woi this is torture….
7. mrbherng | September 18th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
I am one of the weirdo that don’t fancy mooncakes =/
8. KY | September 18th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
arghh..
PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN BUY
Reese’s peanut butter cups!!!!!
9. AbbyC. | September 18th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
OWHHH!!… chocolate mooncake??? and Mango Cheese Cake Mooncake?? Man imma drive to prince hotel later to get some of those. its MOUTH WATERING
10. Waifon | September 18th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Oi, I can’t even find time to eat mooncake, you pulak have so much time mooncake hunting and do a review summore. I jeles dah, how like that!? omg, chocolate mooncake! Adoi, I sorta miss the times when all we have in the supermarkets or restaurants are the same old lotus paste and egg yolk mooncakes. The revolutionized mooncakes are sort of wiping the good ol’ traditional taste of mooncakes altogether. the irony. Sad… but damn exciting cos got so many new flavours out there and it’s all so goddamn orgasmic! Eh, you don’t dig jelly mooncakes meh?
11. ront | September 18th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
i can only get the good ol’ non-halal lotus paste with single yoke…..
and also the old skool red bean paste…..
save me some??
12. Ginny | September 18th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
aisheh T_T i still havent get to try man! my 1st mooncake is 2day! lol.. jelly 1 from emily.. hahaha
i must go test test mooncake di
13. sarah | September 18th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
woman, you always make me hungry. sulk. ;p
14. sweat | September 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
OMG DURIAN!!!
15. sweat | September 18th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
OMG DURIAN!!! heart heart (ish why my comment got cut off when I wrote this with the horizontal v thingy)
Cheese!!!
Peanut Butter!!
Where all all those places you mentioned? All so far away one!
oh oh faster come online i’ve got something good to give away to you!
16. vvens | September 18th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
have to tried the bird nest mooncake?! hahahahaha.
there is also this dried meat mooncake! haha.
i love the moooncake my mum brought from Amway. they are really very very very yummy!
17. reallybites | September 18th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
wah so many mooncakes.luckily i dont like mooncakes haha :P
the other time when i came back from kl,i brought back 5 boxes of tai thong’s one.
but the mango cheese one looks nice :D
18. TheRealAnonymous | September 18th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
I must be living in the same kampung arch lives in…. I also din know got sooooooooo many varieties of mooncakes!!
Aiseh… sweet bean cafe closes on Sundays! Dammit… i went there with Arch on Sunday for breakfast… CLOSED! End up eating at the corner chic rice stall instead.
19. Cla | September 18th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
why no Tai Thong mooncakes + (
haha, anyway, you always remind me of Nicole from ANTM …. ~~~
20. director | September 18th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
wah su ann………ur a very amazing gal u know,most girls hate mooncake bcos it is very FATTENING and u eaten so much…..haha,look very delicious though especially the durian 1…..nyam nyam……..and very “attractive” price too……1 of that equaivailent to 2 days of my lunch food :)…….
21. eric | September 18th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
ah ha!
i always felt like there was a chocolate mooncake waiting somewhere out there for me.. hahaa.. yay!
22. Sandra | September 18th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Talking about mooncake kinda make me fat. Nowadays mooncake got so many varities. Didnt ever tastes those be4. Well, the Chocolate wan nice! Choco Rox!
23. pinkpau | September 19th, 2006 at 1:48 am
prawn : hehe i mail you some, ok!
lalita : hey i’ve missed you! :D haha wow i cant believe you so readily accept the idea of sambal mooncake! everyone i know is only sold after they taste it
jay : it’s this round palmsized Chinese confectionery. traditionally it has lotus paste (sweet, sticky?) in it, then baked to look like the outside of the mooncake in the first pic. the other type you have is snowskin mooncake, where the skin is made out of glutinious rice flour, and is soft and cold and tastes like icing sugar :D both are very yummy. we have it for the Mid Autumn Festival or Mooncake Festival as some people call it. you can follow the wikipedia url i’ve left at the top of the post!
sieutheng : tai thong! tai thong! dont buy overseas -_- actually tong kee also not bad. hey did u know that in half a mooncake, there are like 400 calories. haha on average, we burn 1300 calories a day.
archangel : very nice wan! get out of your kampung and go try!
cK : muahaha! the sadist in me feels accomplished
mrbherng : omg *does crucifix sign with fingers
KY : replied ur email!
abbyc : the chocolate one in this post is from mandarin oriental! but prince hotel has this VERY good chocolate whiskey mooncake as well :) ping pei wan.
waifon : haha dunnit a lotta time wan, just pick up the mooncakes and go. either that or just recieve the mooncakes ppl send to u! see, quick and easy :D aww, we still have the traditional lotus paste egg yolk stuff mah. just that we have more choice now, which is good :D and jelly mooncakes are fine though i still prefer the baked/pingpei variety.
ront : where do u live right now?
ginny : hehe go! try haagen dazs ice cream mooncake! i got some for my birthday last year and they were soooo good :D
sarah : tis payback! you got to go watch WAS =(
sweat : eh the durian wan very nice! subang/usj dont have jusco supermarkets? ya im online now but dont see u =(
vvens : YEA i’ve been looking for the birdnest mooncakes! i saw damn a lot last year but this year like dont have liddat =( where, where! and omg dried meat mooncake! izzit from bee cheng hiang? eh amway i also got, but din try yet. which wan nice?
reallybites : yeaaa tai thong :D thats the way to go! ya mango cheesecake wan very nice!
therealanon : ya close on sundays! damn weird right - sunday should have the most business! must be a super christian family that owns the place.
cla : the best tai thong mooncake ive tried is the peanut butter yam custard one! it’s goood. their lotus paste is also one of the best i’ve tried. haha nicole?? i wish ler! she’s too cute :P did you see her face when tyra pulled the london thing on her and jayla?
director : yea actually mooncakes are damn fattening.. haha i gave my trainer a mooncake and he was like “O_O how many have u been eating!” ya mooncakes getting more and mroe expensive =(
eric : eh u must go try it. must must must.
sandra : haha talking bout it makes u fat? then eating it leh?
24. prawn | September 19th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Ohhh.. then i want the sambal mooncake, the snowskin mango cheese cake mooncake, milk chocalate with pea…… (bla bla bla, bla bla bla) =P
25. vvens | September 19th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
amway, the one with red bean! i like it.
its very very moist.
the birdnest mooncake is from lou hong ka. some birdnest shop where u can find almost in every shopping centre. i dont think its has an english name.
26. Lalita | September 19th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Hey Su Ann! Thanks for missing me! =) I’ve been reading your posts periodically - not because of lack of interest of course - (NEVER THAT!), just because I’ve been super busy.
But yes, I figure that I love sambal and I love mooncake and sometimes when you are in the mood for savoury-sweet, these things do really sound appealing! Does that make any sense at all even in a twisted way?
27. bowb | September 19th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
this is AMAZING! i havent even ventured out to see if the normal mooncakes are out in sydney yet, but i doubt i will find anything as wonderful as your specimens. amazing.
28. ashleighhhh | September 19th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
goodness….
i want to taste the chocolate mooncake!
argh..frustrating,everytime i see this post, theres an all new craving T-T
29. Cat-chan | September 20th, 2006 at 10:42 am
There are no mooncakes in Dunedin! Boohoo *bursts into tears* I want mooncaaaaakeeeessss~~~~
Haha… The Taiwanese Student’s Assocation is actually having a Mooncake Festival Celebration, and apparently they’re selling mooncakes there. Only thing is, I was warned the mooncakes are really, really pricy. Like NZ$15 for a small one? 0_o
The sambal mooncake sounds quite nice, actually. Makes a change from all the sweet, sweet mooncakes. and for some reason, I can’t stand green tea mooncakes. Can’t quite figure out why. ^^”
Next time~
30. pinkpau | September 20th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
prawn : greedy!
vvens : i just tried this one from Amway called Pearl Delight. i have no idea what it is … haha it’s like black in colour?? but doesnt taste like sesame. it’s very nice! and ur right, very moist :D eh lou hong ka. damn expensive!
lalita : aww take care of yourself, ok? and yes the sweet savoury combo is scrumptious .. :)
bowb : sydney should have lotsa mooncakes!
ashleighhhh : oh go get it :D it’s very nice.
cat chan : nz15?? that’s like rm30 right?! OUCH. yea im not a fan of green tea mooncakes either..
31. vvens | September 21st, 2006 at 4:00 pm
yeah! that’s the one red bean. that’s the one i really love.
they are ALL out of stock now. :( i just finished those in my house. hahaha.
hahaha. i’ve heard of it. but never tried it but i do think they are expensive! bird nest eh.
32. allen | August 22nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Happy to come here.I’m a chinese,I like mooncake! I wish that all pepole in the world would like it~!
33. dina | September 18th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
where is Jusco? where can i get hue you thong mooncakes NEAREST from JB custom??
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