Mid-Autumn Yummies

The 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar falls on 14th September this year, which marks the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, or more commonly known as the "mooncake festival" in Singapore. It's not a holiday but is a festival well-celebrated by all Chinese in Singapore.


The celebration includes children carrying brightly-lit lanterns around the estate or the adults hanging lanterns and savouring mooncakes in comfort of their own homes. To most Singaporeans, the most important part of the mooncake festival is of course the mooncakes themselves. It's a time for gathering and feasting on mooncakes!

Mooncakes
The traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste and the salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste. More elaborate versions of mooncakes contain four egg yolks (representing the four phases of the moon). Besides lotus seed paste, other traditional fillings include red bean paste and black bean paste. Today, modern mooncakes differ from the traditinal ones in their ingredients. Coffee, chocolate, nuts (walnuts, mixed nuts, etc), fruits (prunes, pineapples, melons, etc), vegetables (sweet potatoes, etc), ham, and even lychees have been added to give a modern twist to the traditional recipes. Later came the snowy mooncakes, which are non-baked and chilled, then followed by ice-cream mooncakes... With so many varieties of mooncake, aren't you spoilt for choice yet?

Let's take a peek at the new yummy flavours offered by various hotels in Singapore:

The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
"Savour the joys of the Mid-Autumn Festival with our exquisite handmade mooncakes, including four new original flavours: Mixed Nuts & Pineapple, Green Tea Ginger, Coconut Mango and Black Sesame Almond... The Fullerton’s perennial best-seller, The Fullerton Chocolate Baileys in Snowskin..."

Goodwood Park Hotel
"Introducing this year’s new flavour of Tropical Delights – Mango with Pomelo in Snowskin Mooncake. Enveloped in each piece of the new snowskin mooncake is the smooth and luscious mango puree with refreshing mango cubes and just the right amount of juicy pomelo sacs for the perfect contrast of sweet, sour and bitter tastes..."

Raffles Hotel
"Savour three new flavours that our talented award-winning chefs have created - Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Orange & Walnut, the baked Crunchy Treasure and limited edition Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Krug Champagne Truffle & Ganache..."

Pan Pacific Singapore
"Velvety Rose with White Lotus Seed Paste, Decadent Chocolate Mint, Imperial Ginseng and Exquisite Red Date with Wolfberry..."

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