Mid-autumn

19 articles

Happy Moon Festival!

2 years ago • 3,972 views
Lifestyle \ 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 legends and customs surround this much...

12 Mooncakes You Don’t Want to Miss in 2009

2 years ago • 53,441 views
Food & Drink \ Lifestyle \ 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 catalogues and shopping for mooncakes. The mooncakes these days come in a dazzling array of colours, flavours, shapes and sizes. Finding the best one to enjoy at home...

Raffles Hotel Mooncakes 2009 – Have You Ordered Yours Yet?

• 2 years ago • 9,452 views
Food & Drink \ Lifestyle \ 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, the legendary snow-skin mooncakes with champagne truffle and ganache. It’s...

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 2)

4 years ago • 11,586 views
Food & Drink \ Lifestyle \ 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-coloured ones. Now here are some with really interesting shapes besides the conventional round ones! Credit In a collaboration with Starbucks, Nokia released a set of 4 mooncakes, modelled after...

Mooncakes with a Difference! (Part 1)

4 years ago • 25,907 views
Food & Drink \ Lifestyle \ 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 mooncakes. That spawned a new line of exciting modern mooncakes!...