Doris Sweet Journey: Chinese Mid-autumn Festival and Ice-skin Moon Cakes

September 12, 2011 is Chinese traditional festival, Mid-autumn Day. In this day, families usually get together to have a big dinner and celebrate this festival. After dinner, families eat moon cake and enjoy the glorious full moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four most important Chinese festivals.

Moon cake is the traditional food for this festival. Most moon cakes consist of a thin, tender skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling, and may contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in its center to symbolise the full moon. Very rarely, moon cakes are also served steamed or fried.

Contemporary styles:

Snowy moon cakes first appeared on the market in the early 1980s. These non-baked, chilled moon cakes usually come with two types of crusts:

*Glutinous rice: A crust with texture similar to that of a mochi. These moon cakes are known colloquially as "snowskin mooncakes" or "ice-skin mooncakes" (冰皮 or 冰皮月餅).