Its that time again, let's talk about Mooncakes

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Traditional

Li Bai
Sheraton Towers Hotel
Thirty-Nine Scotts Road
(T) 6737 6888

Uses HK style baking method to produce traditional mooncakes. This year it offers lotus seed paste with cranberries and macademia nuts.

Cystal Jade
(T)6512 0800

New flavours: mini red dates & wolfberry paste, mini tangerine & walnut paste and mixed nuts & barbecued meat (suppose to be crunchy and yummy)

Concorde Hotel
100 Orchard Road
Spice Cafe (Level 3)
(T)6733 8855

Halal certified mooncakes in classic flavours such as white lotus and pure lotus with single yolk and double yolk. Just in time for Hari Raya with your muslim friends. There is also a low sugar sugar version.

Amara Hotel
165 Tanjong Pagar Road
Level 2
Silk Road Restaurant
(T) 6227 3848

Classic familiar ingredients with white lotus traditional mooncakes.

Goodwood Park Hotel
Deli Lobby
22 Scotts Road
(T) 6730 1867 / 1868

Handcrafted baked selection of traditional mooncakes such as Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolks and Assorted Nuts with Ham

Snowskin & Others


Orchard Hotel
442 Orchard Road
Hua Ting Restaurant
(T) 6739 6666

Signature snow skin mooncakes come in two new flavours this year: plum paste (lard-free, wrapped in beetroot snowskin) and coffeee paste. Also old favourites such as red wine and cranberry paste and custard with yolk.

Tung Lok Restaurants
(T) 9088 8008

Royale series mooncakes are baked and then chilled to add texture to the skin. Chocolate skin, green tea skin and custard. Also mini chocolate truffle collection with alcohol.

Italian Cafe Cova
290 Orchard Road
#01-20A Paragon Shopping Centre
(T) 6836 0351

Mooncake debut with Torta Della Luna (cake of the moon) in four flavours: rose and vanilla sponge, peanut and chococlate sponge, chocolate and lotus seed paste and mango and lotus seed paste.

Peony Jade
Peony Jade @ Clarke Quay:
Blk 3A Clarke Quay #02-02
(T) 6276 8327

Three new flavours made with low-fat yogurt and real fruit. Banana and strawberry, Chempedak, and Mao Shan Wang durian.

Hilton Hotel
581 Orchard Road,
Checkers Deli
(T) 6730 3392

Four new fuity flavours: mango and peacan with sweet golden mango embedded in creamy cheese.


Goodwood Park Hotel
Deli Lobby
22 Scotts Road
(T) 6730 1867 / 1868

Soursop in Snowskin Mooncake. Filled with smooth, velvety puree and juicy pulp made from fresh soursops

Mango with Pomelo Mooncake which has garnered fans with its smooth mango puree with mango cubes and pomelo sac. Signature D24 Durian and Cempedak Mooncakes

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Noelle Loh
Sun, Sep 02, 2007
The Sunday Times


Get a bite of sugarless mooncakes

IT'S mooncake season. And with the economy booming, hotels and other mooncake purveyors are coming out with ever more exotic flavour combinations, stuffing everything from fat-laden macadamia nuts to bird's nest into these baked or snowskin pastries.

The pickings are slim for those looking to indulge healthily, but LifeStyle has found at least four places offering healthier versions.

Singapore Marriott Hotel has its Snowskin Wild Strawberry Yogurt mooncake (main picture), filled with a frozen mix of strawberries and low-fat yogurt.

Harbour City Restaurant in Alexandra Road offers sugarless mooncakes while the Tung Lok Group is introducing mooncakes with a salted egg yolk substitute made of white kidney beans and cream cheese.

Calorie and fat-laden mooncakes are given as gifts and eaten during the annual mid-autumn festival, which falls on Sept 25 this year.

Ms Lim Su Lin, chief dietician at the National University Hospital, says that a 200g baked lotus paste mooncake without salted egg yolks contains 762 calories, while a similar snow skin version has 746 calories.

One salted egg yolk, a popular addition to mooncakes, adds 90 calories to the mooncake, and can increase the cholesterol count of a baked lotus paste mooncake by over 22 times, she adds.

Spotting a niche market, some sellers have moved to make these pastries less of a calorie bomb.

The Marriott introduced its 98 per cent fat free strawberry yogurt snowskin mooncake last year to cater to health-conscious customers, alongside those filled with muesli and flavoured with jasmine tea.

This year, it dropped the other two and kept the best-selling strawberry one ($6 each or $40 for a box of eight mini mooncakes).

Harbour City Restaurant started offering sugarless mooncakes ($43 for a box of four) in 2003, and sales have increased every year since then, although it declined to give figures. However, the restaurant says that for every 10 mooncakes sold, three are of the sugarless variety.

Instead of using sugar to sweeten the lotus paste and mooncake skin, maltitol, a naturally occurring sugar alcohol commonly used in sugar-free products such as breath mints, is used.

Maltitol matches the density of normal table sugar weight for weight, but contains only 2 to 3 calories per gram, compared to almost 4 calories per gram for normal sugar.

Dessert cafe chain Bakerzin uses another sugar substitute, trehalose, in some of its snowskin mooncakes ($28 for a box of eight mini mooncakes, above right).

Although it has the same number of calories per gram as sugar, trehalose is about half as sweet, and does not promote tooth decay as much as normal sugar.

Director Daniel Tay says this year's range of reduced sugar mooncakes, which have fillings such as orange paste and yam paste, are 'selling, but not fantastically'.

'People still prefer the traditional lotus paste variety,' he says.

Those who do can get them with a salted egg yolk substitute from Tung Lok.

Called bean yolk mooncakes, the 'yolk' in these mooncakes is made of white kidney beans and cream cheese ($34 to $38 for a box of four).

But whether it is sugarless mooncakes or cholesterol-free egg yolk substitutes, dietician Ms Lim points out that while a mooncake may contain nutritious ingredients, there may still be other ingredients that make it unhealthy.

For example, the cream cheese in the bean yolk mooncake has a high fat content comparable to that of a salted egg yolk.

'It all depends on how much white kidney beans Tung Lok uses in proportion to cream cheese,' she says.

Her advice for mooncake lovers?

'Go ahead and eat your mooncakes. You do it only once a year,' she says. 'But do so in moderation. Less than a quarter of a mooncake a day will do and savour it while it lasts. That's how you enjoy food, but still keep healthy.'

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Mooncakes from Singapore
By Jun Wee • Urbanwire

The Singapore Mooncake Menu

1. Singapore Marriott Hotel
2. Goodwood Park Hotel
3. Crown Prince Hotel
4. Mandarin Hotel
5. East Ocean Teo Chew Restaurant Private Limited
6. Minamoto Kitchen

If you have not got enough of moon-cakes then why not try your hand in making them? Here are two interesting moon-cake recipes are here for you to go figure!
1. Durian Paste Agar-Agar Mooncake
2. Chocolate Moon-cake

theurbanwire.com/sep02/food2.html

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

some others...

Da Zhong Guo
Raffles Hotel - Mini Snow-Skin Mooncakes with Champagne Truffle & Ganache
Prima DEli - the mochi mooncakes not bad not so sweet
Haborcity Moontarts
Peach Garden
Angie The choice
Raffles The Plaza's - snowskin alcohol ones are heavenly and unique
Regent Hotel
Ritz Carlton

 

[cooleo]

Anyone tried Goodwood Park Hotel's durian mooncakes? Worth the hype?

 

[ahbohthen]

Will be good if there's a price list too.

 

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Will be good if there's a price list too.

 

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Goodwood Park Hotel

Soursop Snowskin Mooncake (SG$40 for 4 pieces)
Mango with Pomelo in Snowskin Mooncake (SG$40 for 4 pieces)
D24 Durian Paste in Snowskin Mooncake (SG$48 for 4 pieces)

Hilton Singapore

Mini cheese mooncakes (SG$38 for a box of 6)

Intercontinental Singapore – Man Fu Yuan
80 Middle Road

Japanese Sweet Potato Flake Pastry Mooncake with Single Yolk (SG$50.80 for a box of 4)

Mini Snowskin Mooncake filled with Avocado and Mango Mousse (SG$42.80 for a box of 8)

 

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Fairmont Singapore– Szechuan Court
80 Bras Basah Road

Mini Snow-Skin Feulletine-Hazelnut with Wafer Crunch Nuts ($45 for a box of 8)

mini snowskin mooncakes include Champagne Truffle & Chocolate Ganache, Baileys Chocolate and Rum & Raisin Chocolate Truffle ($45 for a box of 8)

Grand Park City Hall - Park Palace
10 Coleman Street

new snow skin (SG$42 for a box of 8) flavours, which include Lychee and Black Sesame with White Truffle

Golden Yam (SG$48 for a box of 4)

Carlton Hotel
76 Bras Basah Road

Mini Durian Snowskin Mooncakes (SG$44 for a box of 8).

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

:p:p:p:p...always get a tough crowd in here...when i started a thread on a new italian bistro i was even accused of advertising for that place...

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

tks as always for the pics bro...apart from the mooncakes themselves i also fancy the boxes...if possible could you post the ritz carlton box?...

Fairmont Singapore– Szechuan Court
80 Bras Basah Road

Mini Snow-Skin Feulletine-Hazelnut with Wafer Crunch Nuts ($45 for a box of 8)

mini snowskin mooncakes include Champagne Truffle & Chocolate Ganache, Baileys Chocolate and Rum & Raisin Chocolate Truffle ($45 for a box of 8)

Grand Park City Hall - Park Palace
10 Coleman Street

new snow skin (SG$42 for a box of 8) flavours, which include Lychee and Black Sesame with White Truffle

Golden Yam (SG$48 for a box of 4)

Carlton Hotel
76 Bras Basah Road

Mini Durian Snowskin Mooncakes (SG$44 for a box of 8).

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Taka's mooncake show is now on @ B2...quite a good choice of hotels, restaurents, local shops and international shops...

 

[SamuelStalin]

Calorie and fat-laden mooncakes are given as gifts and eaten during the annual mid-autumn festival, which falls on Sept 25 this year.

Ms Lim Su Lin, chief dietician at the National University Hospital, says that a 200g baked lotus paste mooncake without salted egg yolks contains 762 calories, while a similar snow skin version has 746 calories.

One salted egg yolk, a popular addition to mooncakes, adds 90 calories to the mooncake, and can increase the cholesterol count of a baked lotus paste mooncake by over 22 times, she adds.

Spotting a niche market, some sellers have moved to make these pastries less of a calorie bomb.

Fuck you Chink you don't eat these everyday, don't kick up a huge fuss seriously. Look at the fried street food you Chink hypocrites have throughout the year.

So shut it up, stuff it in, swallow my semen and urine and bend over ugly hag bitch. You ugly, stupid and worthless she-dog.

 

[SamuelStalin]

Taka's mooncake show is now on @ B2...quite a good choice of hotels, restaurents, local shops and international shops...

Wow very fat ain't you?

 

[cowbellc]

Actually i have tasted a yam mooncake ages ago and still long for it now.

too bad im jobless and ridden wif debts and cant buy it anymore. >.<