All posts tagged: Mid-autumn



Happy Moon Festival!

Happy Moon Festival!

Holidays

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...


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

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

Dining / Holidays

Update: Here’s the compilation of the mooncakes in Singapore for 2010. The 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...


12 Mooncakes You Don’t Want to Miss in 2009

12 Mooncakes You Don’t Want to Miss in 2009

Dining / Holidays

Update: Here’s the compilation of the mooncakes in Singapore for 2010. 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,...


Kia Hiang Restaurant – Mooncakes Packed with Tradition & Innovation

Kia Hiang Restaurant – Mooncakes Packed with Tradition & Innovation

Dining / Holidays

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...


Raffles Hotel Mooncakes 2009 – Have You Ordered Yours Yet?

Raffles Hotel Mooncakes 2009 – Have You Ordered Yours Yet?

Dining / Holidays

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,...


Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Holidays / Web Design

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...


Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 2)

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 2)

Dining / Holidays

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...


Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 1)

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 1)

Dining / Holidays

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...


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

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

Dining / Holidays

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...