Just last weekend, we had a Mooncake Party at Daniel’s house. 10 boxes of mooncakes were being photographed, sliced and divided, which promptly ended up in 10 foodies’ stomachs! I shall just make do with a pictorial 😛
Daniel’s mum was kind enough to prepare longjing tea and jasmine tea for all of us. She also made delicious wantons! Very good idea to have something savory in the middle of our mooncake-feasting session.
Everyone of us brought a box of mooncake and I got mine from Shangri-La.
Shangri-La – White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk ($52 per box).
Fen & Yuan’s mooncakes: Mandarin Orchard
Mandarin Orchard – Baked Mooncake with Single Yolk and White Lotus Paste ($48.80 per box).
Mandarin Orchard – Baked Mooncake with Macadamia Nuts and Low Sugar White Lotus Paste ($48.80 per box).
Phoebe’s mooncakes: Xin’s Cuisine from Holiday Inn Atrium
Xin’s Cuisine – Mini Special Egg Custard Mooncake with Egg Yolk ($45 for 6 pcs)
Daniel’s mooncakes: Liu Yuan Restaurant, Hong Kong
Liu Yuan Restaurant, Hong Kong – 鲜肉月饼
Daniel’s mooncakes: Goods of Desire, Hong Kong
Goods of Desire, Hong Kong – Spread My Cheeks Mooncake with Egg Yolk
Chloe’s mooncakes: Man Fu Yuan from Hotel Intercontinental
Man Fu Yuan – (Clockwise from top left) Green Tea Paste with Almond Flakes, Pumpkin Paste with Chocolate Pearls, Red Bean Paste with Melon Seeds and Black Sesame Paste with White Sesame Seeds ($45.80 per box).
Fen & Yuan’s mooncakes: Ritz Carlton Millenia
Ritz Carlton Millenia – Mini Bing Pi Green Tea Paste ($39 per box)
Elaine’s mooncakes: Jewels Artisan Chocolates
Jewels Artisan Chocolates – (From top to bottom) Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Salted Caramel Truffle, Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Champagne Ganache Truffle, Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Dark Chocolate Crunchy Pearl ($48 for 8 pcs).
Glenn’s mooncakes: Raffles Hotel
Raffles Hotel – Snowskin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache ($52 for 8 pcs).
Chewy Charles’ mooncakes: Tung Lok
Tung Lok – Low Sugar Red Beans with Champagne Truffle
Tung Lok – Mocha with Bailey’s Truffle ($44 per box, 4 pcs per flavour).
Lay Sian’s mooncakes: Zhen Wei
Zhen Wei – Teochew Crispy Mooncakes with Yam Double Yolk ($24 for 2 pcs).
Lay Sian’s mooncakes: Peony Jade
Peony Jade – The Original Ex-Crown Prince Flaky Teochew “Oor Nee” Mooncake with Single Egg Yolk and Golden Japanese Pumpkin ($25.50 for 2 pcs).
Everyone had a wonderful time photographing, sampling all the different mooncakes, sipping tea and chatting at the same time. For a more detailed review, do check out Fen & Yuan’s blog post!
Here’s a list of the other food bloggers whose reviews are worth the wait:
Daniel & Lay Sian from *Memoirs of Food
Elaine from Divine Essentials
Glenn from HungryEpicurean
Phobe & Chloe from for the love of…calories and weighing scales
It’s Mid Autumn Festival today! Mooncake feasting time 😉
you all made moon cakes look really good !!
Hehe yeah it was fun watching them make the mooncakes appear more presentable 🙂
Your photos r brilliant! 🙂
but I dun like the raffles hotel mooncake though. Tot it tasted a bit strange.
Hahaha taste is subjective! No worries~ 😛
Nice photos… Particularly the first two…
Simply can’t wait for the next meet-up…
Vendor sent some Raffles’ Champagne truffle yesterday and believe it or not, I was still squealing at the sight of it and eating it…
Anyway, last but not least, 中秋节快乐…
I cant wait for the next meetup too! Ahhh i had that the night before MAF as well 😀
And we both didnt eat any on MAF itself huh? I wonder what games were u busy with 😛
Mario & Sonic, winter olympics =)
Need to shed the calories gained from the mooncakes…
Wii is a good way to work out…
Wow! You foodies had a great time enjoying different kind of mooncakes. Nice photo! Is good to have regular meetup for strong bonding among the foodies. Looking forward to your next blog. Have a wonderful Mid Autumn
celebration with Chewy Charles tonight!
Thanks! Now you got me thinking whether covalent or ionic bond is stronger. LOL
i love the first pic too! i’m very amused by daniel’s mooncakes (:
Yeah we all guessing which ass was hidden in the box! 😛
it was a 大开眼界 for me to meet all the other food bloggers. 🙂 After i read this post, I started to 回味 the taste of the salted caramel mooncake from Jewels. it was like “WAH!” Definitely one of the best that I had tried.
hahaha uncle chew u WAH a bit too loudly. -___-
your photos are lovely, love them to bits! salivating all over my keyboard when i was reading it today!
Thanks! Hmmm.. Did u eat any mooncakes? 🙂
Hey Charlene! Happy Mid-Autumn Fest to you and Chewy Charles. Haha I haven’t met him but I know him so much thru facebook. 🙂 Love your shots! And I notice the mooncakes were all sliced nicely. Who did the work of art? 🙂
LOL oh dear now i’m wondering if that is a good or bad thing! 😛
Hmm Elaine did most of the work I think.. Daniel and Fen too!
im still drooling over the mooncakes, was a really awesome meetup!
Heyy Phoebe! Whoops i just realized i missed out on ur comment! Yeah it was great meeting everyone! We will see one another soon 😀