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The act of giving mooncakes is itself a gesture of well wishes and prosperity. The real star of this holiday, however, is not the mooncake, but the reunion meal. In fact, the day is sometimes ...
Mooncakes are the hallmark food of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a cultural and religious holiday that is celebrated during the fall harvest. The pastries are eaten around the time when the moon is ...
Add the shaped balls of mooncake into the mould and press to make into a mooncake shape. Place the formed mooncakes on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake the mooncakes for 6 minutes
A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). [1] The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy.
Yueguangbing (Chinese: 月光饼; lit. 'moonlight biscuit'), also called moonlight cake, Hakka mooncake, and sometimes referred as Hakka mooncake biscuits [1] or Hakka Moonlight cake in English, is a form of traditional mooncake of Hakka origins.
At that time one of the employees used some simple tools and an old oil barrel as an improvised oven, and began baking pastries to sell to the boat dwellers on the harbour. This marked the beginning of Kee Wah Bakery. Since then, Kee Wah has become one of Hong Kong's oldest bakeries, and has made its name in Chinese Wedding Cakes and Mooncakes.
The most well-known kind of mooncake is made of lotus seed paste, salted egg yolk and lard – Cantonese style – which explains why a palm-sized cake can contain about 1,000 calories.
Egg yolk pastry or Dànhuángsū is a traditional Taiwanese mooncake of which the filling is made of salted duck egg yolk and red bean paste. [2] [3] According to the "Baked Food Information Magazine" in August 1986, the inventor of mini mooncakes and egg yolk pastries is Chen Zengxiong, the third generation descendant of the century-old bakery "Baoquan" in Fengyuan District, Taichung.