Moon Cakes are Back

Old school moon cakes. Left is a tube of 5 small round tau sar (red bean) moon cakes for MYR 4.60 nett. Right is animal shaped tau sar (red bean) moon cakes for MYR 3.70 nett. So one moon cake is cheaper than one slice of the marble cake I bought last Saturday from BC&S. They are both available with tau yong fillings (lotus paste mixed with mung beans fillings) but I prefer red bean so I bought red bean fillings for both from the neighbourhood sundry shop.

I went to the neighbourhood sundry shop because the elderly folks requested for a bottle of Yuen Chun Spiced Vinegar which is not sold in Aeon Big (I wonder why not sold there). They eat raw red onions soaked in this spiced vinegar for breakfast every day so one bottle will not last long. Price is MYR 6.60 nett for a big bottle. The sundry shop sold many types of moon cakes of those unknown brands.

I chose these two because I just want to have a taste of yesteryear.  They are made by the same company in Malacca so they should taste the same. Yesterday NuxV just wrote about her free premium moon cakes from GH so moon cakes season has officially started! Now I remember I have seen moon cakes being sold in a herbal shop in Midvalley Mall about 3 weeks ago so it has already started.

What a way to package the 5 small round moon cakes.

Both packs of moon cakes are made by Ittai Confectionery Sdn Bhd in Malacca.

Wheat Molasses is the magic ingredient for the skin of the moon cakes. This moon cake is safe to be eaten by everyone.

Animal shaped moon cakes - what! they even have koala bears and good luck cats! I don't believe it. I can only accept fish shaped moon cakes. Each moon cake costs MYR 0.925 nett.

I did not expect them to have so much red bean fillings as I like to eat thick doughy skins. Good bye cat moon cake as half landed in my tummy and the other half in his tummy.

Each round small moon cakes costs MYR 0.92 nett so they are more affordable than the animal shaped moon cakes. They are quite small as can be seen in the photo above against the size of a tea spoon. 

Now to test the taste of the small round moon cakes. As suspected, they taste exactly the same as the animal shaped moon cakes so unless you like animal shaped moon cakes for the animals, then it is more worth it to just buy these round small moon cakes. 

I like the taste because it reminds me of the taste of red bean moon cakes when I was 5 years old. I kept the remaining 7 moon cakes in the fridge to slowly savour daily.

These budget moon cakes are not as sweet as those premium moon cakes so I ate the above whole moon cake that I have cut into halves. The taste of the skin is authentic, exactly the same as those animal shaped moon cakes without any fillings and it is soft, not hard. In fact, a bit too soft until it is crumbly. I think I won't be buying any premium moon cakes this year apart from a box of 4 moon cakes with 4 yolks each from Oversea (Haewaytian).

*** Tuesday 18 Aug 2020 d154 ***

I got a request to buy curry noodles which I rejected due to it is messy to takeaway curry noodles. But when I was at the eatery, I thought ok, why not so I bought a pack of yellow noodles mix mee hoon curry noodles for MYR 7.50 nett and requested for the small pack of chili paste sambal to be excluded.

When I buy ckt, I will request for the cockles to be omitted but for this curry mee, what is curry mee without cockles so I just kept quiet. I also bought a pack of dry curry chicken wanton noodles for MYR 7 nett which I bought previously. Both packs of noodles are bought from Million Ocean coffee shop where the kway chap stall used to be (no longer there now).

This curry broth is very thick and rich, full of herbs and spices flavours, not that salty. It has many juicy cockles, long beans, pieces of poached chicken, pork rind, crunchy beansprout (nga choy) and tofu pok (beancurd puffs) so this is one of the better curry noodles around. He ate his share at 10.09 am.

10.49 am - and left this much for me. I thought he would eat more as he requested for it. There are about 8 juicy cockles in this meal and I ate four. I dread the thought of pouring the remaining curry broth down the sink into the drain so I poured all the curry broth into my tummy resulting in a burning tummy. Then I pour plain drinking water into the casserole pot and rinse the pot before drinking the water so that non of the curry red oil will go down my sink.

After that I was very full and did not eat any of the dry curry chicken wanton noodles at 2 pm so he finished the whole pack. At 5 pm, I ate massimo whole wheat bread 3 slices with 2 slices of 7 sprouted grains rainbow bread with half a navel orange for dinner while he ate bread, jam and peanut butter. So today is curry noodles day.