Chef Julia - Haagen Daz Ice Cream Moon Cake

Chef Julia and JoZe would like to wish you all a very Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Here we treat you all the Haagen Daz Ice Cream Moon Cakes.Cookies & Cream the yolk was made by Mango Sorbet.Macadamia Nuts.

The moon cakes priced at Rm 38.99 ++ each.. Quite costly but very delicious.

Chef Julia rating for Haagen Daz Ice Cream Mooncake:

Hope you guys had a wonderful day! Till then adios!

Moon Cakes or Packaging?

Hungry Ghost month has come to the end, this means we (the chinese) will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival soon. Mid- Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day on the 8th month of the lunar calendar, we will be celebrating the festival on the 14th of September on Gregorian Calendar.

Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, eat moon cakes and carrying bright lit lantern. Some family even burn incense in reverence to deities like Chang'e.

As for my family, we don celebrate at all. Especially all of us had grown up, and we don play lanterns anymore. As for moon cakes eating, we had start eating it before the day. (We had started eating moon cakes now). Talking about moon cakes, the packaging now is very nice, but those with nice packaging usually are expensive. The moon cakes from the pictures above are from Hotel Equatorial. The one with fork and knife are gifts from my sister's company, they cost around RM 100 +++. As for the mini ones, my sis bought it as a gift to her friends...that cost Rm38 for each.

I was wondering, if you buy moon cakes, you buy it for the taste of the moon cakes or the nice packaging. Personally, for me i like the packaging more than the moon cakes... How about you?

Moon cakes........

This year moon cake festival falls on the 25th September 2007. But i had already eaten so many moon cakes before the festival..so on that day i wont be eating anymore moon cake.......unless there is a special moon cake. Actually i prefer plain moon cake, we call it "ang ko na pia" in hokkein. As for moon cakes i dun like all the new flavours e.g cappucino, dragon fruit.......... I prefer the traditional one with red bean paste and the yolk. I oso like the Shanghai moon cake:

This Shanghai moon cake is not from any famous restaurants or bakery. A friend of my aunt Alice make this for sale. Very delicious and its cheap only RM 26. She oso make this Jelly moon cake:

The other day my aunt taught me how to make soft crystal moon cakes. My aunt lost her original recipe, so she get the recipe from her friend. The recipe her friend give us is too sweet and oily....... So the moon cake i made not so successful:

Hehe.........these are the moon cakes i made......these are the one that are not nice looking. The nice ones have given to my friends... a bit oily but still can eat....

My sis bought these mini moon cakes from Bee Chiang Hiang:

Cute right? Look like the chinese chess. Bee Chiang Hiang name it "Chess Moon Cake".

Those who are celebrating Moon Cake Festivals.........I wish you all had a very Happy Moon Cake Festival and enjoy eating moon cakes....