08/365 : Mooncake, originally uploaded by Snap Happy Ria.
This mooncake is all that is left of the ones given to me by my husband to celebrate the Mid-Autumn/Mooncake Festival. A white mooncake is quite unusual as they are often brown. But over the years, the pallet of the mooncake-eating public have become more sophisticated. Nowadays, instead of the usual red-egg-and-mung-bean filled mooncakes, they now have versions made of jello or Haagen Dazs ice cream. More expensive versions are filled caviar and black truffles… and ah yes, the wonderful white mooncake above that tastes of marzipan and some other paste I don’t know.
Audrey said:
hello, you said the mooncake is made of marzipan, mmmm… yummy… I love marzipan. Anyway, I tried looking for information about you in this blog but I couldn’t or maybe I have missed something?
Back to the mooncake, is this white mooncake what they called ‘ping pei’ in Cantonese?
Ria Ancheta - Adrias said:
I have no idea. White mooncakes here are carried under the brand “Snowy.”
About me, yeah I’m working on that page. Can’t seem to write about myself. I just moved to Hong Kong by the way, I’m foreign. Harhar.
Audrey said:
Foreign as in from outer space? ahehehe… just joking. Anyway, welcome to the EAST! Enjoy our eccentricities and odd behaviorism!
Cristine Fernando said:
first impression: it is to me a blood-drained brain which passed quality control and stamped with some chinese characters that say: for export. pardon the ignorance.