Mooncakes And 3D Flower Jelly

I got a pleasant surprise last week when a delivery rider called me on my phone to tell me that he had delivered something for me from my boss, an online news agency.  I quickly asked Cass to collect it from the lobby and was itching to know what it was! 

A very pleasant surprise awaited me from Mandarin Oriental Hotel!

It's a box of four mooncakes!

So aesthetically wrapped and presented in a quality wooden oriental gift box.

Red bean flavor.

Matcha flavor.

White lotus flavor.

Cass who was doing an IF broke her fast as she couldn't resist the temptation of the dainty mooncakes and tried all the flavors.

Thank you very much to my boss and Mandarin Oriental for the yummy mooncakes!!  

Yesterday hubs surprised me with a box of 2 mooncakes from Kam Lun Tai, just because I commented that the KLT white lotus mooncake that he bought last week was very tasty and not too sweet.  I'm not a fan of mooncakes and won't buy them.  Hubs usually buys them as he loves mooncakes, especially those with double yolks.

Love the gift box from KLT, with smiley cows. I'm born in the year of the cow 😁

These KLT mooncakes come with double yolks. Only hubs eats the yolks. We usually single out all the yolks for him.

These 3Q mooncakes were gifted to Alycia by Kaylee's mum last month when she visited Kaylee, her coursemate who's from Melaka.  Alycia took a bus with another coursemate to Melaka and stayed at Kaylee's lovely abode for 2 nights.  Before they left, Kaylee's mum gifted all the girls who came from KL with 3Q mooncakes, Melaka famous Gula Melaka (palm sugar) and mini mooncakes with grated coconut filling. 

The mooncake fillings are composed of meat floss, yolk, and mochi. The exterior of the mooncake is encrusted with white sesame seeds. It's my first time trying 3Q mooncake from Melaka.

Mini mooncakes with a generous filling of fresh grated coconut and pandan-flavored grated coconut.

Hubby's aunt who stays 2 floors below our unit recently attended a class on how to make 3D flower jelly and gave us a big 3D flower jelly.

Edible art - too pretty to eat. I'm always intrigued by how these intricate 3D jellies are made as the flowers, fish and animals inside the jellies look so real. No molds are used for the floral or nature-based designs inside the jelly. Instead, they are injected into the jelly using syringes and special tools.  The entire piece of edible art looks very convoluted and intricate.  It takes loads of patience and time from someone to create these beauties. 

Mooncakes Galore

Mooncake with nuts, seeds and bacon strips.


Disney Winnie The Pooh mooncake.


These are the mooncakes that my sil brought back from Hong Kong. My favorite are the ones with lots of seeds, nuts and strips of roasted bacon. The ain't too sweet and are loaded with seeds and nuts and are very tasty too. There are even Pooh Bear mooncakes from Disney Land. There goes my diet plan..... my calories have far exceeded my output. I guess I have to increase the intensity and duration of my jogging sessions before my pouch becomes a permanent feature!

Mooncakes

Mooncake festival is around the corner again. Though the festival only falls next month, restaurants and shops are capitalizing on the situation and most have already started selling mooncakes and lanterns aplenty since last month. I am not a great fan of mooncakes coz I find most of them sweet and of course they are fattening. Hubby loves mooncakes and several days ago, he bought a box of mooncakes from Shangri-La Hotel and i tell you, they are so expensive. Since he loves salted eggs, he bought all of them with double egg yolks.... tasty but fattening and high in cholestrol. The ones with double egg yolks cost the most, at around RM19 each. For me, I will never spend this much money on a small mooncake. I'd rather spend the money on healthier alternatives.

I quite like the 'ping pei' or crystal jade pandan flavored skin mooncake with red beans, minus the egg yolk.


We had dinner at Overseas Restaurant, Armada PJ last night and daddy bought the gals a plastic basket lantern with mooncake, costing RM4.80 each.



The mooncakes from Shangri-La Hotel, all with double egg yolks.... which make them double fattening!



Alycia enjoying her sunflower seeds mooncake (with no paste inside) for breakfast this morning. The mooncake came together with the plastic basket lantern. I like this type of mooncakes best coz they have no paste inside, not so sweet and have lots of sunflower seeds.
I also love the 'jee jai yuet peng' or piglet mooncakes, the ones in the tiny plastic 'pig cages' with a plastic string. I will try to get some of these for the gals later.... and also for myself. I used to love them when I was little.