Singapore Book of Records Moon Cake Making Challenge

I was walking past The Cental earlier today and saw so many chefs! What's going on?
It seems that chefs from many restaurants in Singapore have gathered to set a record for the Singapore Book of Records, a record for making Moon Cakes.



I was too tired to stay and watch what they were going to do.

Hmm.. look at one of the chef pointing at me. Was he going to make me into meat balls for taking a photo of him? *knees knocking each other*


Wishing all a very Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
Enjoy watching the moon, eating moon cakes and sipping tea tonight!

Mooncakes

A photo of a traditional looking mooncake tin / box.



It's Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and there are thousands of different shops selling mooncakes.

Mid-Autumn Festival - pigs included!

Today, we had a short eating session after our meeting at church.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival today! So, we had some food. Someone even peeled pomelos for us! We have few boxes of mooncakes, but this was the 'star'. A piglet mooncake!



Ain't it adorable? By the way, it has no meat. So it can be considered vegetarian?

Anyway, it's just so so cute!
No, none of us carried lanterns! haha...

Mooncakes Galore at Takashimaya.

Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will flock to the Takashimaya Shopping Centre where you can taste and view all the mooncakes you want.

I was there with colleague during lunch hour yesterday. It's to avoid the mad rush on the weekend. You get to see chefs or bakers making mooncakes on site too.



An 'aerial' view of the foyer where all the temp stalls displayed their goods.


(If you have the bandwidth and want to view the photo above in more detail, click on photo)

I have also posted some photos of mooncakes at the food blog here and here.

Mooncakes in Singapore is quite elaborate, it is not like the ones sold in Chinatowns in many western countries which does not tempt you at all. Think 'Champagne Truffles Mooncakes' haha...

Take a peep inside the moon....

Judging from yesterday's comments, I think our friends from overseas have not really seen or tasted mooncakes :-)

Here's a view of what it looks inside. This one is the 'modern' ones with fillings that are different. This has macadamia nuts.




Traditional ones have salted egg yolks and some has melon seeds.

Even more contemporary ones are those made by Haagan Dazs! Ice cream mooncakes.
If you want to see more pictures of mooncakes I have posted previously, peep them here.

Today's food blog's about the little mooncake party we had in office.

Moon cakes from Marriott and the story behind it.

Mooncakes are back on sale these few weeks. My colleague bought this from Marriott Singapore. Yey, we get to eat moon cakes again.



What is the filling? Make a guess. Don't know?
It's White Lotus Seed Paste with Macademia Nuts.

Anyway, if you want to know more about The Mid-Autumn Festival and Mooncakes, read on. Story is courtesy of Marriott Hotel's mooncake box. :-)









hey, they even have a website: http://mooncakes.singaporemarriott.com/

We are waiting to see if our vendors will pass us some this year. haha...
Do your vendors pass you gifts during special occasions?

Mid Autumn Festival / Mooncake & Lantern Festival

Today's the Mid Autumn Festival. Everyone's suppose to be eating looking at the moon, eating mooncakes and sipping tea under the clear skies. BUT... Singapore's covered with HAZE! Arrghh... Thankfully I have air conditioning and a Sharp Plasmacluster Air Purifier as well.

Today's pix will be obviously photos of mooncakes.

They come in various types of packaging. This one's from Meritus Mandarin, Singapore.


This very chinese packaging comes from Chef Chan's Restaurant.


The mooncake close up.


This one is what they call the "ping1 pi2" skin mooncake. Translated as Snow Skin Mooncakes.
These are usually serve cold so the skin does not melt. My mum made this one!


Enjoy... Sorry did not go to the Chinese Garden where there's a lantern festival. It's just to hazy to go out. So no pictures of lanterns.

Space Age Series - Saturday

How do you communicate or keep contact with people from outer space? Well, maybe people working in this building are doing it right now...



The satellite dish is looking up right now, sometimes it is pointing at the side towards the building opposite. Sometimes I have too rich an imagination, I can picture blue or red rays shooting from the satellite to rival buildlings. (Maybe I grew up watching too much cartoons.)

Guess what. After a successful contact people on the moon, folks from the moon sent some of their cakes over. Here's a picture of a mooncake. It's Double Yolk with Lotus Seed Paste.



Enjoy.....


*Latest News* We made contact! The satellite made contact with the Space Age Twin Towers in KL. View it here at the KLDP.