Moon Cakes
Traditonal moon cakes have a baked pastry case. Inside are dense sugary fudge-like filled The sweetmeats are muffin size. If you have a group, you cut the mooncake into tiny triangular sections like a large cake. A tiny piece, like a dice of fudge, goes a long way. Most are pure sweetness.
You can buy a variety of flavours.
Flavours
Red bean. Lotus. Grreen Tea. Ice cream. Durian.
Eggs
More expensive are those with teeny boiled eggs inside. How do they get the eggs so small? Are they baby eggs or shrunk? They are duck eggs. The eggs complement the sweet taste, and provide protein.
Souvenirs
Hotels sell expensive versions with decorative boxes you can give as gifts to business associates and as a thank you to hosts or guests. Pop-up shops sometimes sell individual ones as well as large boxes of four or more.
You can buy mooncakes online from the websites of supermarkets in Singapore. But watch out for scams on WhatsApp.
DIY
You can find recipes and buy plastic or wooden moulds.
Amazon sells a set of two modern mooncake moulds which push out the mooncake.
Supermarkets
In September 2023 Fairprice supermarket in Singapore was offering online mooncakes, a single moon cake at 15 Singapore dollars, Flavours include lotus paste, green tea. A large number of individual mooncakes and boxes are shown on the website.
Fairprice supermarket also stocks halal mooncakes.
See my previous posts on mooncakes.
Useful Websites
Useful Websites
Great recipes:
https://zhangcatherine.com/mooncakes/
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2021/09/food-and-fun-at-autumn-harvest.html
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