日本のムーンケーキ？香港の友人から届いた物と見た目もそのまま。しかも月餅って型押しされてる。前回のビデオで食べたムーンケーキの中には確か塩漬けにされた黄身が入ってたのを覚えてるけど。。。
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Fake moon cake 月餅？
日本のムーンケーキ？香港の友人から届いた物と見た目もそのまま。しかも月餅って型押しされてる。前回のビデオで食べたムーンケーキの中には確か塩漬けにされた黄身が入ってたのを覚えてるけど。。。
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aww... but actually the variety of mooncakes are countless and you can even get it without the egg yolk :) That looks like red bean paste mooncake, am I right? Or is it black sesame paste? :D There's no fake or real I guess. Just that the traditional one will be lotus paste inside with an egg yolk.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, it's the main different between Japanese & Chinese Mooncake.
ReplyDeleteDo you accept the tastes of the salted egg yolk? ^^
I wasn't sure if it was red azuki beans paste. I felt it tasted more like the one I had in the video but without egg york. Almost same but walnuts was inside on this one. I think it was lotus paste and azuki beans paste mix.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, about salted egg york, I didn't really like the taste. I know the egg yolk in the middle of the moon cake was meant to be eaten WITH the cake. Well just for the video you know XD
I'm so hungry! they look delicious! I want one!
ReplyDeleteyup, that looks like red bean paste mooncake filling.
ReplyDeleteI love the lotus paste with salted egg yoke! better with double yoke!!! yummm...
there are more innovative flavors these days, e.g. durian, chocolate, cheese, etc.
The filling isn't the most aesthetically appealing thing I've seen, but the embossing is seriously cool.
ReplyDeleteThe best moon cakes are snowy moon cakes, but as they need to be kept in the freezer guess theres no way to send them to you.
ReplyDeleteJust do a google search to see how they look like
(Sorry for perhaps reviving an old topic!)
ReplyDeleteTaro-san, mooncakes are very heavy and sweet, so maybe try slicing the mooncakes into wedges and eating them slowly while drinking a hot, slightly bitter tea. The tea helps them go down more easily =)
As Ms. Erica mentioned, there are many types of traditional mooncakes alone, most if not all of which have variations without the salted yolk.* Some have regular lotus seed (蓮子), others white lotus seed (白蓮子, which is smoother), some have azuki (紅豆沙), some have nuts (五仁), some have jinhua ham (金華火腿); the list continues. The filling pictured looks like jujube (红枣).
*Traditionally, however, the yolk represents the moon.
The dough that wraps the mooncakes can vary in style too, from the thicker, chewier Cantonese style (like that of the ones you ate), to the flakier, pastry-like Taiwan style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake has more information if you're interested.
Also, as you probably know, the cubic, crispy, sweet treat eaten first is called sachima in Mandarin (薩其馬/沙琪瑪), ma tzai in Cantonese (馬仔) for short (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachima). It's so good!
Finally and most importantly, thank you so much for all your videos, and hope you find a type of mooncake you like! ^.^
(From news update) Our thoughts go out to Japan and her people.
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