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Wanna go with the whole traditional moon festival thing this year and buy some mooncakes. But I saw that there are dozens of flavours, many which don't sound appetizing at all. Any recommendations?
Date seed paste, Sweetened red bean paste, Lotus seed paste with egg yellow, Five Nuts r all very traditional in north China.
Five Nuts is my favorite.
coffaholic, why the obsession with food? There's something fishy here... you seem to know much about food yet you ask for advices... is it because you try to limit yourself to lose some weight?
Five nuts is also my favorite! i love nuts! it gives a boost of energy, doesn't hold too many calories. i bite it and it's a foodgasm when it goes down my throat. I have no gag reflex so i can eat as fast as i can, no problemo!
Tommas, you're spot on. Food is my best friend and worst enemy. I live to eat, but dread the day the fat rolls become unmanageable. So yes, I love food but try to keep my consumption within a controlled parameter, but I wouldn't quite call it "dieting". Let's just say that some days I indulge in quite a lot of fingerlicking delicacies, and the next is just chopped cucumber and celery sticks.
The 5 nuts kind is good if you get it from a decent place. This often has ham, rock sugar, candied melon, and other things in there, so it's not really a "healthy" option.
My favorite is ones made with taro paste - usually with pineapple or coconut added for sweetness.
Bear in mind though.....
These things are FAR FROM DIET FRIENDLY. They are made with maltose sugar syrup, lard and other things and the "single portion" ones you can by at convenience stores usually contain around 800-1200 calories (that's about 2 McD's big macs...)
i feel your pain, coffaholic. it's really hard for the morale, because no matter how i deprive myself of food i'd love to eat, people in the street look at me like i ate their whole family. I'm not an ogre, i just want respect...
I love the one with egg yellow! But seems like a LOT of people doesn't.
Has anyone had the Haagen Dasz ice-cream mooncakes? They look devine but there's no way I'd spend that much money on them.
Sesame, Lotus seed with Egg, Nuts, and I will try a Pumpkin one later which sounds great.
This may simply be the (I just finished my 7th beer) single best question ever on this site. Mooncakes are brutal.......hang on, got to get another nip....I want a nice coconut moon cake...couldn't find one...not surprised........this post is older than me......oh, it isn't...where's that mooncake beer? That's not right. Mooncakes are 5000 years old, must be stale...no good. Is Createach still upsetting others? Is Pogger really teaching kiddies? Is Crimo still right 95% of the time? Jnusb left and went to wonderland right? Nevermind is still hardcore? Where's that new nip? Does someone here have a Hugh E Reaction to erections?
Hagen Dasz ice cream mooncakes are the way to go. Otherwise they are all waxy hockey pucks.