Mid autumn festival is round the corner and I will be sharing some of the moon cakes I received this year. Some information about the mid autumn festival for those who heard about it for the first time. This is a harvest festival that is celebrated by the Chinese and Vietnamese on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Lunar calendar (it is on 19 Sep this year). On this day children will be carrying lanterns and whole family will come together and enjoy the moon cakes. In some countries there are alot of public celebration and display of lanterns.
In Singapore there are displays of big lanterns at the Garden by the Bay as well as the Chinese Garden. As for the mooncakes, you can have a taste (sampling) of them at Takashimaya Shopping Centre Events Hall at basement 2, they have the most number of mooncakes vendors here.
I shall start with the Raffles Hotel Champagne Truffle Mooncake. This is one of the signature mooncake of Raffles hotel.
There is no fanciful packaging, just the original tin mooncake box which we see in the 90s I quite prefer these. Sometimes we receive very beautiful mooncake boxes which we find it a waste to throw away but it also takes up space to keep them and is of little use.
There are 8 in a box and I think it goes for around S$58, which I think is quite reasonable based on the average mooncake pricing.
There is the word 莱, the first word of Raffles Hotel in Chinese (莱佛士酒店).
The mooncake is very soft with very thin skin, the champagne is also not overwhelming which blends in nicely with the white lotus paste. This is the first time I have tasted it, it suits my tastebud 100%, think I will definitely get it next year (if no one gives me one).
The next one I got is from Sze Chuan Court from Fairmont. It has 8 mini snow skin mooncakes in 4 flavours: Mango Magnifico, Rum & Raisin Chocolate Truffle, Baileys and Champagne Truffle & Chocolate Ganache.
Yes, this comes in a fanciful box with drawer and photo frame, really no idea who will use it. They also have a more premium box which is made of syntactic leather which cost about $20 more.
The flavours for the mooncake.
I seems to have one flavour missing.....Very disappointed with fairmont. How does it taste, well the skin is very thick and not as smooth as Raffles Hotel's moon cake. But it sell at the same price as Raffles Hotel's moon cake!!!
Update: After I made a complain to Fairmont about the missing flavour, they offer to deliver a box with the correct flavour to my home or office. I must say they have very good customer service and have done well in service recovery. Thanks to Anthony for make the extra mile for the customer, I am impressed.
Update: After I made a complain to Fairmont about the missing flavour, they offer to deliver a box with the correct flavour to my home or office. I must say they have very good customer service and have done well in service recovery. Thanks to Anthony for make the extra mile for the customer, I am impressed.
This is how the box of mooncake from SzeChuan Court, Fairmont should look like with the correct flavour.
The next mooncake I am contemplating whether to have another post for it or to include in the same post since it is....well mooncakes. But this is not a brand you see at Takashimaya shopping centre mooncake festival event, neither can you find it in any hotel or restaurant or shop. However this is a very popular brand which probably most people have heard of around the world but in no way link to mooncakes. Let me present the mooncake from Singapore Airlines.
They use the SIA gold and batik design for the paperbag as well as the box.
The paperbag is only decorated with the batik design and with a small logo and name by the side which follows the very classy look of the SIA brand.
For the mooncake box there is a big SIA logo in the center of the box.
This is how it looks on the inside, following the same batik design as the box and the paper bag.
The description of each flavour. They call this the SIA selection: Pandan Mashed Yolk, Green Tea Melon Seeds, Pumpkin with Salty Taro and Red Bean Sesame. How does it taste? I find the pumpkin with salty taro quite nice, the rest are special as well but I guess whether you find it nice depends whether you like red bean or pandan or green tea same goes for pumpkin and taro.
Usually you will only get a taste of SIA's mooncake if you travel with Singapore Airlines during the mid autumn festival but now they seems to have extend the sale of it in the Silver Kris lounge.
Wishing all an early mid autumn festival!
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