Thursday, 11 December 2014

Chinese Traditional Food -- Moon Cake

Moon cake
Moon cake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhong Qiu Jie). Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "Zhong Qiu Jie".
A moon cake is a delicately stuffed round cake that is delicious and nice to look at. The cake is often given as a gift between family and friends during the festival to show greetings. A small cake is a carrier of good wishes between family members, the eagerness to join family reunion of those away from home and people's praying for happiness. Most moon cakes consist of a thin, tender pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling, and may contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in their center as the symbol of the full moon. Very rarely, moon cakes are also served steamed or fried.

There is another moon cake call snow skin moon cakes or (ice skin moon cakes), they are a non-baked moon cake, which originated in Hong Kong. The crust of snow skin moon cake is made of glutinous rice which is frozen. The typical color of snow skin moon cakes is white and they are served cold, which is how it gets the name "snow skin". However, moon cakes may have other colors because of added flavors in their crusts. For example, if chocolate is added, the color of the crust might be brown.
Snow Skin moon cake


























Emma Cai

References: 
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