It's mooncake season madness! Mooncakes are traditional Chinese pastries typically round with a crust filled with lotus seed paste and containing a full egg yolk in its center. They are mainly produced and eaten during the mid-autumn festival and it is right now pure madness everywhere. In the newspaper this morning there were maybe 30 different pages of adds full of moon cakes. Chinese colleagues in the office spend hours discussing new flavours and where to find the perfect mooncake. When asked about my tastes I was directed to Hong Kong's Peninsula Connoisseur' mini egg custards mooncake. I went to trace them at the big display in Takashimaya and my colleague was right! It is exactly the kind of pastry I like. They come in a big box of eight and the cakes themselves are pretty small which is a good thing since they are very rich. Price tag: 35 SGD.
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