A Guide to MOONCAKES!
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival and that means MOONCAKES! We go through the mooncakes from different regions and some funky modern day mooncakes. There are even mooncakes that are savory that is made of meat! Tell us what's your favorite mooncake and have an awesome Mid-Autumn Festival!
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I found out about Mooncakes from this children's animated show called Sagwa. It was about a Siamese cat and her family who lived with the Magistrate in ancient China and wrote the laws with their tails, which they dipped in ink. Sadly, no matter how hard I try, I cannot find the mooncake episode. Many episodes are on youtube, though if you are all curious.
Omg I used to watch that when I was a kid! I'm not Asian, I'm European, but that show was AMAZING and I forgot the name of it. And by the way, I remember the mooncake episode. On the website the show had you could make a meal for the emperor and one think you could make was mooncake.
haha same I thought they looked great!
Yoachan this show was everything omg
Same! I remember that episode; they told the story of a daughter using mooncakes to smuggle plans to her imprisoned father. The guards ate some of the mooncakes, and the others had tiny scrolls baked inside them. I don't remember what the episode was called, though.
childhood done right
Cantonese style lotus and egg yolk moon cakes are most definitely my favorite
I found out about mooncakes through Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior😂😂😂
They looked so bomb.
I just recently got the chance to try them been wanting them since watching that movie in elementary school
I loved that movie
Having spent Mid-Autumn festival overseas for the past few years, the last part about eating mooncakes with your family over tea while moongazing really got to me because I haven't been eating mooncakes with my family for a while. My family used to stock up a bunch of mooncakes so during the festival period our breakfast and tea times usually has only one food menu: mooncakes
The egg yolk is my favorite part too! It's definitely the best part!
You know how sometimes you eat something sweet and then go for something salty or vice versa? The moon cake definitely satisfies that!
I'm only familiar with Cantonese style moon cakes, so it it's definitely interesting to see the other types of moon cakes.
Lotus seed paste moon cakes are the best!
Mine is also the Cantonese moon cake filled with lotus seed paste with the egg yolk.
Thanks for sharing this, I'll be using your contribution in my class this afternoon. A great material to practise English and learn a bit about the Chinese culture at the same time.
"Enough talking about mooncakes,... What's your favorite mooncake" 😅
I LOVE the Lotus paste one as well, you can eat all the eggs in mine though because I'm not that keen! :D Although I'm health conscious/don't eat it too much, Breadtop makes Lotus Paste with Macadamia which is amazing for me if I do feel like one to myself!!
i want a moon cake mold just so i can make the prettiest pies on the face of the earth
Amazon has them, it is where mine came from.
I want to try the jelly mooncake so bad! But my current favourite is the cantonese style with lotus seed paste and 2 egg yolks! 好吃了！
I've never tried moon cakes and I want to soo bad! They look beautiful and delicious
our house received 7 boxes of moon cake this year! way too many! def had to give some away!
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I love your channel! As an Asian American, I truly value the Asian culture content that you feature. It reminds me of "home". You guys have a niche that is both very refreshing for Asian Americans and informative for non-Asians at large.
OMG - you have revealed a great mystery! Thank you for answering questions I've had about this dessert for many years! Amazing!
I used to buy 苏式月饼 (I think) in the street in Nanjing, but I didn't know it was a moon cake then. When your first exposure to moon cakes is in the U.S., I guess you tend to get the idea that they're all like 广式月饼.
Same as you. 蓮蓉月餅 with 2 yolks. I remember we used to get 4 yolks, but we're older now and more health conscious. Also we don't eat the whole moon cake ourselves, we cut into 8 and at most have 2-3 pieces and share with family. A game we would play was to pick the piece with the most yolk. Great video btw!
coconut mooncake...in love with this kind!
My favorite moon cake is the teochew style moon cake! So loving the multi-layer skin and taro and pumpkin filling. They taste best when served hot. Now i realized that Singaporeans are super fortunate as we can get almost all the varieties of moon cake mentioned in this video!
Whenever I see those Canto cakes, I mentally roll around like a crazed maniac of happiness.
I only will buy Wing Wah White Lotus with at least two yolks. Wing Wah is the master brand when it comes to mooncake. It costs significantly more than other brands but it's worth it. This year, I got a Wing Wah White Lotus with THREE yolks! I took it to work and shared it and everyone loved it and they can tell it's Wing Wah. (Side story, when I was little and still living in Hong Kong, my house was near the Wing Wah Mooncake bakery and the smell of Wing Wah mooncake makes me so happy!)
when she was introducing the Cantonese-style mooncakes, she said the names in Mandarin as well as in Cantonese. China has a multitude of dialects! some are so different, they might as well be different languages
Hi Bernadette, the festival was yesterday 19th of Sept. I don't think you can order mooncakes at a restaurant in the west, maybe very specialized ones. If you still want mooncakes, they should all be on sale now at Chinese supermarkets.
You can buy the Cantonese style at your local Chinese supermarkets. If you go to Chinese bakeries they may have some specialized ones.
Durian mooncakes are the best thing ever
We buy mooncakes every year as a tradition, but funny enough. No one in our house likes them. It's usually just my mom who ends up stuffing them all down.
thanks for the informal video on mooncakes! im vietnamese and so i don't know much history behind mooncakes and the different variations. My favourite are the taiwanese mooncakes with durian filling.
Thanks for the guide! I've never had these before and my local Chinese supermarket is coming out with a huge variety of mooncakes. I wanted to get a feel for which ones my family would enjoy.
Nice! Wherever there's Chinese supermarkets there should be mooncakes around this time!
Yeah, after doing this video I'm super curious about the other types of mooncakes... altho I've had flaky ones before... I don't really like them :P
I had never tried any other moon cakes, just only Cantonese style mooncake and snow skin. My favourite is lotus seed paste and a cup of hot tea. Must have moon cake with a cup of tea is like complimentary.
Famous Snow skin mooncake from Singapore is from Goodwood Park hotel. Malaysia also celebrates this festival and have many locally made mooncake with the lotus seed and salted egg as well.
Cantonese style with lotus paste with yolk and lotus seeds
I love traditional Cantonese style mooncake with lotus seed paste and egg yolk. But I would like to try some of the ones featured in this video. The Taiwanese style mooncake with the flakey pastry and some taro paste filling looks really good. The more you eat mooncake, the more you will like it. This is the time of year when it is easier to find in specialty stores. I am so happy to have been introduced to this famous Chinese tradition.
Over 100 guests enjoyed this video while eating moon cakes in our mid autumn festival celebration. Thank you, Carmen!
"All right, enough talk about moon cakes!"
*proceeds to ask about moon cakes*
Anything stuffed with Taro. Also the Haagen Das ones are amazing! Had them from HD in Shanghai and I died they were so good.
YASSSSS! The Häagen-Dazs ones are AMAZING!
I never even knew that these types of moon cakes existed! wow! just gotta find a few to try it....
im chinese myself, i lived in china for 10 yrs.
I DID NOT KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY TYPES OF MOON CAKES! :O
Nowadays in Singapore,the mooncakes you see are now the doreamon kind but still,commonly sold are the lotus with salted egg yolk mooncakes
That was awesome!!!
Canto with lotus jujube or red bean with lots of yolk too! SOOOOO excited!!!
I just had my first mooncake yesterday from my Chinese history professor. I believe she brought in the one filled with lotus paste. Very delicious :D
never heard of a mooncake before but they look amazing
It shouldn't be a problem unless you get the 5 kernel one but you really need to look at the ingredients, just to be safe!
Snow skin mooncake is the BEST! It's also known to be an expensive kind of mooncakes, too.
The one I love most is FREE mooncake.
I remember when I watched that Disney movie where he made chocolate moon cakes so I bought all the moon cakes in my asian food market in search for a chocolate one
I learned about mooncakes from Ni how, Kai-lan. Ah, memories.
I love anything with Mung beans and lotus seeds in it
this video blew my mind, I didn't think there were so many varieties.
I have tasted the Cantonese moon cakes when I was little ! I love it !
There are different types!Want to eat them all!Jelly Mooncake is my favorite!!!
In Taiwan - Mid-autumn festival = barbecue time!!! Forget the moon cakes!
I don’t know if it was mentioned here or what it’s actually called but I actually made and tried a moon cake with adzuki bean filling. We were studying the autumn festival in my freshman Chinese class in high school. My group made them for our project
You still have time now! Mooncakes are all on sale in Chinese supermarkets. Go get some!
I am so excited for this holiday! I am in Taiwan right now and finally get to celebrate it all traditional like haha
My favorite was a fruit and nut filled Cantonese style moon cake that one family used to make back in the 1950s (my childhood) . They sold the bakery in the mid 60s but not their special recipe so you can't get them any more. I've come pretty close in fooling with fillings but it still isn't as I remember--maybe because I'm 67 no 7.
One more mooncake, I am about to howl.
You left out a kind of Teochew mooncake it's called 潮州朥餅. It looks like pizza, flat, round and big but with fillings like the red bean paste 紅豆沙, lotus seed paste蓮蓉, mung bean paste綠豆沙 and even with preserved vegetable like the 梅菜。
green tea mooncake with AS MANY YOLKS AS POSSIBLE~
I never knew there were SOOO many types of moon cakes wow
The Jelly ones look awesome!
I didn't know so many moon cakes exist. My favourite moon cake is the same as hers.
Good point. I'll do that when we celebrate.
love the egg yolk fillings too!! with as many yolk as possible.
Truly an outstanding presentation. Of all the videos I watch I will remember this one!
Teochew mooncakes with yam paste filling... Yummy... Durian-crazy communities in Southeast Asia love to make durian mooncakes
I saw somewhere in HK selling 奶黃月餅, as a lover of 奶黃 I am gonna indulge in this once I find them again!!!
Most people like lotus seed and egg yolk mooncake. It really depends on your palette though... have you tried salted egg yolks before? And can you eat really dense sweet stuff?
happy (early) mid autumn festival to you too, carman and to everyone! :D
I really like the cantonese mooncake with coconut and egg yolk filling! I ♥ the contrast between the sweetness of the coconut and the saltiness of the egg yolk. Delish! Thanks for sharing this! =]
These mooncakes look so delicious
I think Singapore has a lot of good snowskin and jelly mooncakes. That would've been good... next time!
Snow skin mooncake tastes great I ate it yesterday , I loved it
冰皮月餅 for definite!! Green tea or sweet red bean filling!
Jujube paste!!!! I absolutely love it!!!
It's so sad, that I'm 1/2 Chinese and never tried a moon cake. I really want to try one! WHY? Thank you for this awesome post Carmen, I hope to try a moon cake soon.
Actually, get the ones without the salty egg yolk in the middle. It tastes so much better. The best ones are the ones with just lotus seed paste.
The most common mooncakes in my hometown is Cantonese style and I love red bean paste the most. Suzhou mooncakes are less common, but whenever I find someone selling them, I prefer the salty ones :D~
Just... no more spicy chicken floss or spicy tuna fillings anymore... one time and that's it!
SNOW SKIN MOON CAKE FOR THE WIN!!!
Wow, never knew there were so many varieties of mooncakes
Darth... you MUST try it this year!
ice skin is definitely more expensive than normal mooncakes. You also need to refrigerate it and it's more perishable.
Canto w/ white lotus see paste and 1 or no yolks. YUMMMM
There are diff types! Maybe you just don't like that one type.. I'm curious to try the savory ones!
Suzhou style with meatballs inside is the best!
Loved this! I think I've only had lotus seed moon cake... but it didn't have an egg yolk in it. It was very good. I want to try more types!!
Oh man,... the snow skin and other desserty ones look sooooo delicious!! :D
I used to hate the egg yolk, but as I've gotten older, I think I've come around to liking yolks! I'm in Guangdong right now and my biggest sadness is that I don't have a ton of people to share mooncakes with! (No, seriously: you can't find them in single-serving sizes. It's very depressing.)
my fav is cantonese style with red bean paste w/ egg yolk and greentea. Teochew style with yam paste is also very delicious!
Thanks for the educational video! I will use it in our mid-Autumn festival celebration party.
snow skin....awwwww....it's a must every year....
My favorite mooncake is the EXACT same as yours Carmen. The more egg yolks, the better for sure!!
I love the lotus seed paste moon cake and the one that has the snow skin moon cake with lotus seed paste.
No way! You showed it to a room full of guests? Did you take any pictures? I would love to see :)
I haven't actually tried all those different types before. My favourite is also the Cantonese style mooncakes- white lotus seed paste with egg yolk (we usually get the double yolk :)). I've also tried to the snow skin mooncakes which I really enjoy as well (although, I guess I'm a little more traditional (and also because I grew up with it), I still prefer the lotus seed paste one.
I love this guide videos! I'm Chinese and I do need to know more about all my basics haha
My favourite is the snowy moon cake because that's the only "safe" one for me. I'm a Chinese that's allergic to peanuts lol
I've never had mooncake before, but I really do wanna try it!