Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as “Harvest Festival”, which is one of the most well known Chinese Festivals. In Singapore, it’s celebrated with mooncakes and kids carrying lanterns. This is one of the money-spinners for merchants, who continue to charge exorbitant prices for lanterns, which come in the form of Hello Kitty, Aeroplanes and Dragons, just to name a few. My favourite part of the festival are the mooncakes.
Mooncakes typically come in 3 forms; Baked, Pastry and Snow-skin.
Snow-skin mooncakes are those where the skin is uncooked. It is left in the fridge and served cold. They are also to be consumed asap. Of the different snow-skin mooncakes available in Singapore, one of the most popular and famous would have to be the snow -skin mooncakes from Raffles Hotel.
This year, I am fortunate enough to get a 25% discount off them. I decided to grab a box of the famous Champagne Truffle mooncakes.
Each box contains 8 mini moon-cakes. The design for the box differs each year. Something for the staunch Raffles mooncake supporters to collect.
The first thing that struck me when I opened the tin box is the sweet fragrance. The smell itself is sufficient to tempt you to bite into the mooncake! The mooncake is best taken in quarters, where you can savour the sweetness of the truffles and the fragrance of the champagne.
Above is a picture of the cross-section of the mooncake. The star of the mooncake is undoubtedly the sweet truffle right at the middle. A warning though, it’s really quite sweet, so do prepare a nice fragrant cup of hot Chinese tea to compliment.
Retail price is S$48. Unfortunately, the snow-skins are not available for order via the internet. You can make your orders online at Raffles Hotel Mooncakes. Enjoy.
