Mid-autumn

Happy Moon Festival!

It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival this weekend! To the Chinese, this is the single most important day of the year after Chinese New Year. Celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, it falls in the exact midst of autumn. Hence, “mid-autumn”. Many legends and customs surround this much celebrated festival. Who hasn’t heard the story of the beautiful... Read more →

12 More Mooncakes You Don’t Want to Miss in 2009 – A Remix!

Mid-autumn festival is less than two weeks away! Have you bought your mooncakes yet? If you have enjoyed my compilation of the 12 most interesting mooncakes you can find in Singapore, you may find this remix selection of 12 spanking new mooncakes useful, too. One cannot help but notice that the seasonal dessert has evolved into increasingly exotic and tantalising variations.... Read more →

12 Mooncakes You Don’t Want to Miss in 2009

it’s mooncake season! many families, mine included, are busy checking out catalogs and shopping for mooncakes. The mooncakes these days come in a dazzling array of colors, flavors, shapes and sizes. Finding the best one to enjoy at home or to give away to relatives is certainly no simple task! To aid you in your mooncake selection, I have compiled a list of 12 mooncakes... Read more →

Kia Hiang Restaurant – Mooncakes Packed with Tradition & Innovation

Isn’t the Mid-Autumn Festival colorful? Year after year, hotels and restaurants create new mooncake flavors quicker than you can say champagne truffle mooncake. It’s always fun to see what they whip up to please the diverse palates of Singaporeans. Kia Hiang Restaurant, in particular, have been the first to introduce several innovative and exciting mooncake... Read more →

Raffles Hotel Mooncakes 2009 – Have You Ordered Yours Yet?

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, I look forward to two things. One is the sight of children carrying lanterns and lighting candles at night. That innocent scene always brings back fond childhood memories. The other is the Raffles Hotel mooncakes. More specifically, the legendary snow-skin mooncakes with champagne truffle and ganache. It’s a big hit with the fans.The... Read more →

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

It’s kinda late, but here’s an e-card anyway. It’s for the Moon Festival!Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, guys and gals! may your day be filled with lots of yummilicious mooncake, bright candles and colorful lanterns! Love you all! Much love, Veron (more…)  Read more →

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 2)

As promised, here’s the last of my 3-parter series on unique mooncakes. You’ve seen champagne truffle mooncakes as well as rainbow-colored ones. Now here are some with really interesting shapes besides the conventional round ones! Photo by Oranje In a collaboration with Starbucks, Nokia released a set of 4 mooncakes, modeled after their l’amour series... Read more →

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 1)

The commonest mooncakes that we see during the Mid-Autumn Festival are typically round or square in shape, with either a baked brown crust or snow-skin exterior. Then in 1994, Raffles Hotel created the innovative and highly sought after champagne truffle mooncakes. That spawned a new line of exciting modern mooncakes! Since then, mooncakes never really did quite stay the... Read more →

Raffles Hotel: Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache

The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival if you prefer, is here again! Of course, what’s Moon Festival without mooncakes right? Therefore over the next 3 days, I would be featuring some unique and yummilicious mooncakes. We’ll start off with my most favorite mooncakes of all — champagne truffle and ganache snow-skin mooncakes from Raffles Hotel! Now,... Read more →