Magical Mid Autumn
The very cheesy title, because of how my pomelo picture turned out…
Got two Pomelos from Fairprice this year! I love pomelos!! It’s like orange without the acidity and a bit of that addictive bitterness I like! If you’re having a shitty day, I guarantee that a wedge of cold pomelo will change your mood! And talk about shit…. it eases constipation!!
Mini Cheese Mooncakes, Dragon Phoenix Restaurant
This was the first mooncake I had this year! You know my love for cheese… I can eat eat with anything! Bread / pasta / cakes / rice / soup (brocolli & cheese soup, ever tried??). I even eat BRead with nutella and cheese / jam and cheese! Damn shiok, don’t know why…
This cheese mooncake isn’t so much a mooncake to me, more like a pastry! The pastry is cheesy but inside is really just lotus paste, and a bit of salted egg yoke.
Peony Jade’s Organic snowskin Durian Mooncake
This one’s definitely the best snowskin I had this year! Strangely, I do not find the Goodwood park one as nice anymore… the durian filling tastes weird. The Peony Jade one has a very satisfying filling that is not too sweet/overpowering. And the skin?
I never really bothered to find out which part of it is ‘organic’, but I think that it should be the skin, because the taste and texture is really very different from other snowskins! If you’re a snowskin ‘connoisseur’ like me, you would able to taste the difference of this snowskin. It isn’t too annoyingly soft/bouncy to the chew… but a little ‘paste-ty’. Also, it holds the durian filling very well, and does not go too soft even when you have defrosted it for a while. The overall feeling when you eat it – it makes you feel like having more! And look at the color combi! It isn’t the typical mint green snow skin color but the durian husk green lookalike! But I guess, the overall experience is enhanced knowing that you are eating an ‘organic’ mooncake… but… how organic can it be right? hahahaha!
Tong Heng’s 金华火腿
To digress abit, you can see that I love using kitchen towels. They’re just more fantastic than tissue… hahaha. I love to put my snacks on kitchen towels, so I can save washing those plates, and I feel quite guilty about it because it is totally not environmental friendly!
I dare say that this is the best 金华火腿 I have ever eaten. The filling is so generous and they have the winter melon sweet inside! Salty, sweet, nutty… that’s the beauty of this old skool flavor mooncake! One quarter of it is enough to fill you up (warning, it fills you up 5 mins after eating, so never gorge too much in one serving!). I love to eat mine slowly with a nice cup of Oolong tea! Ahhhh! What enjoyment!
Look at that chunk of winter melon sweet dropped out at the corner… haha!
This year, I was so bent on buying the Raffles champagne truffle mooncakes because I had such an immense craving! I actually went down to Raffles Hotel and stood there to look for 15 minutes, but, I left empty handed! This year, they are $60.00 for a box of 8 mini! Not sure why at that point of time, I could not convince myself to part with the $60. I was also told that they need to be consumed within 5 days. I guess I was worried that I would only have craving for one (you know how you can’t eat so much sweet stuff or risk feeling sick), so I figured that it was not a wise thing to buy afterall! I then landed at Raffles City and bought a box of my usual Ritz Carlton Green Tea mooncakes, which were only $30++ after discount! Oh did I mention, there was no discount for the Raffles one?
Last but not least, ZQ’s friend gave him a box of 4 large snowskin assorted flavor mooncakes from Goodwood Park, and they are still sitting in the freezer! That is the problem when there are only two persons at home! And no thanks to the fact that we were both too sick to eat these ‘heaty stuff’ last two weeks.
So, how was your mid-autumn?
