Mooncakes

We decided to go out last night. If you live in Singapore you'll just laugh. Yes, we tried to go out on the last night of Hari Raya Puasa which is also on a National holiday at the beginning of the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival (also known as the Moon Festival and a time people give and receive mooncakes). The plan was, dinner at Vivo and then a cab down to Chinatown to check out all the mooncake vendors.

Once at Vivo we were sucked into throngs of multi-generation Chinese families out shopping for mooncakes right in the middle of the mall. Having seen the line-ups just to get onto the MRT to downtown we decided to ditch the idea of Chinatown and just check out the mooncakes here.

The mall exhibitors were all patisseries from the big luxury hotels. They often had the classic flavours like lotus, egg yolk or red bean but others had adopted some other ideas like chocolate or rum raisin. While the most common cakes had a tough pastry on the outside, some were what they call "snow-skin" mooncakes which are coated with mochi. Through peer pressure we somehow ended up buying an elegant gift box of snow-skin mooncakes from Raffles hotel. This is what we got:

The yellow mooncakes are Champagne Truffle & Chocolate Ganache, the pink ones are Dark Rocher Chocolate, the orange ones Bailey's Chocolate and white ones are Rum and Raisin Chocolate Truffle. Now that's my kind of mooncake selection!