Happy belated Mooncake festival everyone! Yes, it was 2 days ago, but typical Singaporean in me figured that the cheap mooncakes that the Asian grocers are selling yesterday is friendler to my wallet, so it does not really matter if you celebrated on Sunday, or yesterday, or even today.
Because of this economy of price, I bought 2 mooncakes (only AUD$8.50 for 2!!) and brought a redbean with 2 yolks mooncake to the office this morning. I actually wanted to find a snow-skin one in Sydney for the past 2 years and I was told there is one Chinese bakery that does sell the snow-skin variety, but there was an urban legend going around that they usually freeze the snowskin mooncakes and resell them year after year, so no Sydney snowskin mooncakes for me.
I was passing around the sliced portions in the office this morning. The Asians were of course very ethusiastic about the portions and were choosing the bigger pieces. The ang-mohs were very aprehensive. Romy took a small piece and quickly declared it to be delicious. Candice let slipped that mooncakes are very high in calories and sugar content but Romy decided to let it pass with a piece only.
I offered LM one piece and was told that she had it before because one of her ex-boyfriend was Vietnamese. That boyfriend used to buy for this Canadian-Aussie colleague of mine red-bean steam buns for snacks, she reminisces. I proclaimed her half-Asian for her adventurous palate.
The Muslims in my office are fasting, so no mooncakes for them.
While we had the pieces, we discussed about the legend of the Mooncake Festival but quickly found out that our knowledge is very shallow indeed. Did this come about when the Chinese put notes in the cakes and planned a successful war attack on their enemies, or did we celebrate this because of one lady who flew to the moon with her pet rabbit?
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