Recent years, mooncake manufacturers have become more and more creative in making different types of moon cake. We have found this Koala Bear Mooncake. We finished our last piece of our moon cake just now. We do not know how, where and which part should we start eating this koala. Finally we turned it over, and ate it without looking at the koala bear’s face. Poor poor koala bear.
Besides different shapes, there are endless new types of flavour for the traditional mooncake fillings. Lotus seed flavour (Lian2Rong2) is my favorite #1 choice. Besides the traditional filling such as red bean flavour (Dou4Sha1), I have found at least 20 other different types of mooncake fillings. Let me list out a few.
1. Cheese lotus seed.
2. Pandan.
3. Dragon fruit.
4. Peach.
5. Coffee.
6. Green tea.
7. Peanut.
8. Chocolate.
9. And many more… …
Since SiewPeng and I are pure vegetarians and we do not eat egg, our choices are limited. This year we only bought three types plus the koala bear as you can see in the pictures.
We bought the mini round-shaped mooncake, which their size is smaller than the traditional round-shaped moon cake. Their diameter is only about 3 cm, where as the traditional moon cake has about 6 to 10 cm in diameter. We can finish each mini moon cake in 2 bites.
Mooncake tastes delicious, but it should not be taken too much because it contains high sugar. It is dangerous for those who have diabetes. I forgot to mention the mooncake with egg yolk, double egg yolks or 4 egg yolks inside the filling, it is even worse because it contains high cholesterol. So remember, do not eat too much.
We thought of doing the same things again as the apples and brinjals in our previous posts, but we worried that we cannot finish the moon cake if we get one for each flavour, that why we only select a few types here. May be we will do it next year. :p
