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Moon Cakes

Moon cake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the mid-autumn festival.
 
The Chinese Moon Festival is an important and favorite holiday for Chinese people around the world. It is also a joyous time for family, friends, and couples to reunite under a full moon. All take a little time to appreciate the beautiful full moon on hopefully the clearest night of the year and share traditional moon cakes at night of 15th Aug (Chinese calendar).
 
Chinese moon cakes are small, baked cakes eaten with the fingers during the Mid-Autumn.
Most moon cakes consist of a thin tender skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling. The moon cake may contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in its centre to symbolize the full moon. Very rarely, moon cakes are also served steamed or fried, traditional moon cake have an imprint on top consisting of the Chinese characters for “longevity” or “harmony” as well as the name of the bakery and the filling in the moon cake. Many types of fillings can be found in traditional moon cakes according to the region’s culture include: lotus seed paste, sweet bean paste, Jujube paste and kernels
 
Despite the small size, Chinese moon cakes are prepared with lard and are quite heavy to eat. Many people choose to cut moon cakes into quarters to share them with friends.
 
CAP HK provides various tastes of moon cakes such as:
 

Lotus Seed Paste

 

Sweet Bean Paste

 
Five Kernels

 
Multinuts

 

Chinese Ham

 

Other Bean Paste

 

Sometimes, we can also tailor made some new taste moon cakes on customer’s requirement.