I love mooncakes. In Singapore I put on a lot of weight. I went toToastmasters clubs. Once or twice a year they had mooncakes. Pop up shops and kiosks in hotels and shopping malls sold mooncakes at all prices. Signapore is a business city and prices go from high int he city centre, to exhobitant in gold leaf boxes, to sets of unusual flavours and colours, with embossed indented and raised patterns on the circular pastry top, to painted design on little decorated wooden caabinets with window double doors and/or triple drawers. I have been to Toassmasters International speeches on making mooncakes, on mookcake designs and flavours worldwide, and on mooncake packages and cabinets.
I used to wonder why the more expensive mooncakes had boiled eggs in the middle. Why were the ones with egg added more expensive. I thought that the ones without egg were preferable. Anybody can boil an egg. No everybody had the elusive, exoitc expsnive armomas and flavours and ingredients ofr mooncakes.
One day I bought one with egg by mistake. I discovered something surprising and satisfying. After an entire mooncakes (which is supposed to be shared, cut into teeny cake slices, tringular, just a dice of sugar anf fat laden calories, a whole mooncake is too much sugar. Bad for your wieght. And teeth. And diabeters. And the feeling if stickiness and siness grows.
But if you eat the one with egg in the middle, you have added a dieteary essential, protein, and diluted the sugar conetent. to you can eat more mouthfuls. Or just the same amout feeling stasfied rather than overwhelmed by sugar and sick. So a mooncake with an egg inside is not just a snack, for between meals. It has the inredients for a lunch or dinner. (Add fruit or vegetables, or both such as a bed of lettice and grapes. Or a bowl of cherry tomatoes and tiny oranges at a buffet.)
I realised another reason for extra cost. Depanding on the ize of the cake and egg. How sould you fit an eniter egg inside a mooncake? A quali's egg is smaller but dearer. Because some of the smaller birds give out eggs less often than chickens. Mooncakes on earth re in the shape of the moon, and reflect the movement of the moon in the skies. Also called the autumn
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Moncakes abound in Singapore. Also Chine. Taiwan. Hong Kong. Chinetowns worldwide.
Online. Amazon for next day delivery with prime, which many businesses have and can send gifts to customers of shops or clients of services.
The A to Z of mooncakes'
Suppliers range from Amazon to Zeng Feng on Ebay. Also on Etsy and Temu.
Ueful Websites
I have previous posts from previous years about mooncakes, which I praised when I was living in Singapore. This year I am in London on the vital mooncake dates and the air fares are expensive so I hop about less, and with the age of 80 on the horizon I have more excuse to feel less like travelling daily. So I am sitting at my desk, hoping to receive a mooncake.
I looked online. Amazon offered me a set of mooncakes. The flavour included chocolate and matcha. I suppose chocolate is for the British market. Matcha for the Japanese. But these are not the traditional oriental flavours. Perhaps an easy introduction.
Useful Websites
https://www.amazon.co.uk/specialty-mooncakes-chocolate-delicious-breakfast/
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