how many moon cakes did you eat today?

[kasia]

9/28 is moon cake day in the US.

1) what's your favorite type?

2) how many can you eat in one sitting?

3) what do you like to have it with?

my answers:

1) the vietnamese kind with mung bean.

2) 1.

3) with tea


Legendary, during the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon caked was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.

The Moon Cake was filled with sweet red bean pasted or crushed lotus seeds embedded with a salted coked duck's egg. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.

Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.

[fossilfuel]

1. The kind with a bunch of crap in it - nuts, some sort of bean paste, a salty boiled egg yolk in the middle, sesame, a chinese sausage surprise sometimes too

2. 1/2 although I prefer to only eat 1 corner, I'm not a big fan of sweet foods

3. hot tea

[tvbdude]

I ate 1/4 of a moon cake today
1. leen yung

2. I've ate a whole mooncake before. god that shit was sweet as hell

3. dunno

[kasia]

1. The kind with a bunch of crap in it - nuts, some sort of bean paste, a salty boiled egg yolk in the middle, sesame, a chinese sausage surprise sometimes too


what the....? chinese sausage in moon cake? was it good? :eek:

[yoMAMA]

1. the ones with eggs/sweet bean stuff

2. alot.....like 1/2

3. with hot green tea

[lethal]

I liek the Vietnamese kind with 1 egg yolk.

My mom sends me 4 every year at this time, but this year, she only sent me 2. I ate both in one sitting...of course, they were the only things I ate the entire day.

I eat them plain with nothing to drink.

[Arex]

I like the white lotus seed with two yolks. I've had the Vietnamese (I think) "fruitcake" style mooncake before. I wasn't too fond of it.

I like 'em plain, half at a time. I've got two boxes to go through this year...

RX

[yoMAMA]

yeah yolk...that's the thing.

[tommyhtown]

1.) I don't have a favorite kind. I like them all
2.) Half.
3.) Milk

I don't think I'll be eating any mooncake until this weekend. I have bad sore throat.

[fossilfuel]

what the....? chinese sausage in moon cake? was it good? :eek:

Well, I liked it! The mooncake I was talking about was the Vietnamese kind with a bit of everything. Sometimes it's a small slice of sausage (We call it lap xuong), other times the sausage is chopped up. I think it goes well with the salty yolk and makes it less sweet (bur probably 10 times as fatty).

It's definitely an acquired taste though. Well... it's not too crazy, those English have their mincemeat pies...

[artsfartsyjanet]

i don't like moon cake very much. i would probably eat 1/4.not the kind with an egg yolk. i like the other kind with sugar cubes in it. they taste like soft sugar cubes.

[VV o n g B a]

westernized mooncakes

apparently these chain mooncakes (and other high class moocakes) are pretty popular in china. especially shanghai where the business elite get them as semi-bribes.

[ellsworth81]

i've had a small variety ... but my preferred kind is with the lotus seed ... or whatever leen yung translates to. i'll eat portions of it usually.

the most exotic one i had was one with swallow's nest (yeen waw?) in it ... there were only a few slivers granted ...

most tea is excellent with lotus paste ... either in bun form or moon cake form. but since i dont have tea lying around usually ...

dunno about the salty egg part tho ... doesnt do it for me.

[bluemonq]

1. anything but the kind with swallow's nest. and taro. taro is bad in moon cakes

2. three (last year). only two-point-five *total* this year. but on the tasa hike at berkeley, we're giving moon cakes out (well, not whole ones). come! kroeber fountain, college and bancroft, 7 pm.
3. most teas, except sometimes jasmine and green teas taste funky with certain mookcakes. and i mean like certain individual ones, where some of the inclusions are closer together than others and taste nasty.

[applehead]

westernized mooncakes

apparently these chain mooncakes (and other high class moocakes) are pretty popular in china. especially shanghai where the business elite get them as semi-bribes.

starbucks mooncakes?
interesting.

[hooligan]

i'm going to buy some after work today. : ) kasie, where do they sell them in chinatown?

[deez nuts]

i'm going to buy some after work today. : ) kasie, where do they sell them in chinatown?

basically any food market and bakery.

first time huh?

[applehead]

i would suggest going to the bakery where
they make it themselves.

edit:'cause i saw a docu. on tv
about the imported mooncakes
and how they were made with questionable
ingredients.
did i mention this on the board before?
i feel like i'm repeating myself.
please excuse me if i am.

:smile:

[lethal]

I need to find a Vietnamese mooncake store in NYC.

[hooligan]

basically any food market and bakery.

first time huh?
first time, in a long time.

[Arex]

i would suggest going to the bakery where
they make it themselves.

edit:'cause i saw a docu. on tv
about the imported mooncakes
and how they were made with questionable
ingredients.
did i mention this on the board before?
i feel like i'm repeating myself.
please excuse me if i am.

:smile:
I for one hope they use questionable ingredients. It's part of the cultural aspect of eating mooncakes, after all. j/k

But, whatever, ignorance is bliss. You can't live your life in fear of eating mouse poop and cockroach legs. Unless I've made it with my own two hands, I assume there's some amount of unwanted foreign matter in the food.=)

Now if you're talking something along the lines of that dude in China that sold baos with bbq people filling, that's another issue. Still, if I'd eaten one of those, I'd rather not know.

RX

[tvbdude]

Now if you're talking something along the lines of that dude in China that sold baos with bbq people filling, that's another issue. Still, if I'd eaten one of those, I'd rather not know.

RX

I love that movie

[Arex]

^---- Oh, was that a movie? I just remember reading a thread about that here a loooooong ass time ago.

RX

[SunWuKong]

too filling. i didn't eat any.

[ellsworth81]

^---- Oh, was that a movie? I just remember reading a thread about that here a loooooong ass time ago.

RX

yes. it was twisted.

one of anthony wong chou sung's better performances.

[asvenus]

i hate starbucks..wankers
that aside i have only ever had one moon cake and i wasnt too keen on the whole egg sweet thing....acquired taste methinks....in England mince meat is not made with real meat, its a combo of crushed up berries, fruit, sultanas and other good tasting stuff...English people make the best puds i think...stodgy but gooood

[moJo]

this year, i haven't eaten more than a quarter of one of those regular sized ones (they are pretty huge!).

my favorites are white lotus w/ egg yolk and mung bean (but the mung bean ones are smaller, and the crust is different).

[bluemonq]

iin England mince meat is not made with real meat, its a combo of crushed up berries, fruit, sultanas and other good tasting stuff...English people make the best puds i think...stodgy but gooood
but mincemeat pies with meat aren't that bad either. they're like the barbequed pork in pastry shells instead of buns. well, except they're not sweet. but you know what i mean...

[Chris]

one

[kimpossible]

sultanas

Sultana Bran threw me for a second the first time I saw a box.