I am prone to get hooked up on new stuffs and hobbies real fast and the recent subject of interest is Mooncakes! Yes, mooncakes – those round little smooth sugary pastes wrap up in dough of all sort of attractive shapes, are what caught my interest recently. As the mid-autumn festival draws near, those mooncake manufacturers have already start selling their products although it is still one month plus away. As I have never bought and really care about mooncakes in all my life before, I decided to do a little exploration this mid-autumn.

Staying in USM has left me not choice of place for shopping, and thus I was left with little choice for mooncake brands. I decided to try my luck at Billion in hope for a good deal. So I was laid with a few choices of mooncake brands, that is Oversea, Kam Lun Tai, Hei Yuet Thong (not sure about spelling) and baker’s cottage. There were 20% off for Oversea and Bakers and only 10% for Kam Lun Tai, but if I buy 4 KLT, I get a Nyonya flavour Mooncake for free. About HYT, I’m not so sure…

After some deep thinking, I decided to buy Oversea’s Noble Delight and Golden Starlight and KLT’s Pearly Jade Delight and Black Sesame with 1 yolk. Not sure about my choice at that time too, there were so many choices. SO, without further ado, let’s get on to the tasting part!

oversea mooncake case

noble delight

Noble Delight

Haha… I have to apologize on this one, ate it straight away I came home and forgotten to take any snaps on it, manage to find its pic on net though. Its paste is quite delicious, not purely of lotus paste but a mixture of Huai Shan, Pitaya fruit, lotus, and white bean. One can definitely taste the lotus paste, but with improvisation, mildly sweet, smooth and just a perfect mix of ingredients with the right proportion.

aiks... after eating oni thought of snapping...hehe, guess the stomach signal reaches my brain the fastest

Pearly Jade Delight

as advertised

Oh my god, chaos! Ok, maybe not dat bad… The combination is bold, yet not so harmonic. Paste is made of lotus n pandan… erm… not bad, but tasted like kaya pandan. Then before the yolk(non-egg)  is a layer which I guessed is some sort of rice paste which have jelly or gelatine and also the layer which spoils the whole mooncake taste. Apart from that, the nut is getting in my way of chewing… Overall, not bad but not so tempting as it names suggest.

real appearance

wats inside

Black Sesame with 1 yolk

as advertised

in reality

wats inside... yumm yumm

Erm, can definitely taste the lotus paste, but the sesame layer is quite thin that I actually find difficulty to distinguish it from lotus paste apart from its colour. Not bad…Yolk is there…lol… nothing much different from normal lotus paste mooncake

Golden Starlight – haven’t taste…haha. Next Update maybe…

So after tasting three of the mooncake, I came to a hypothesis that branded mooncakes are not so mighty as their fame… a rather rash conclusion.. so I decided to sample more. So I went shopping for mooncakes at Jusco, 1U and found more brands such as Six Happiness, Hotel Equatorial, Yu Ai, Bisgood, Foh San, Thai Thong and many more mouth watering brands of mooncakes.The fancy packagings are so eye-catching that at some point, i was deciding to buy choose the mooncakes manufacturers based on their packaging! lol

yet another mcake flavor which i'm after... just cant get it anywhere - all out of stock...sigh

But alas, i was running out of time, so I decided to just buy a pure lotus paste Mooncake from six Happiness and another for my friend (cant reveal the brand yet for secrecy purpose…lol). Will be sampling it in the morning, later

Till next post.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

I woke up today when N call me at around 11 am and decided not to resume my sleep since I have yet to do many assignments and works. My body kind of aches due to inappropriate sleeping postures, or either due to me sleeping at 4 am today. Yesterday was a very busy day, however none of the things I do was assignment related, lol.

Yesterday I woke up in between 11am – 2 pm. I wasn’t sure because I was like half awake, do some chores then fall back asleep. Recently I have been mutating into a pig, for I have been sleeping at random hours frequently, and eat more than usual… . However, yesterday was filled with chores, most of them were to tidy and clean up my room which has been in a mess for more than a month… (guys room ma… ).

So basically I did laundry in the morning, tidy up my room and do some mopping in the afternoon, and finally take my lunch-dinner at KFC with G at around 4. Lu-nner, Dunch? Its considered tea maybe, lol.

Anyway there were new menus in KFC in conjunction with the festive season, Hari Raya. I and G decide to try out the Shrimp Stix Combo as it looks tasty and worth the price stated. Value for money (VFM)! In the illustration, the Shrimp Stix looks bigger than the drumstick (looks bigger in the ads printed out and hanged at the restaurant as compared to the ad on internet…forgot to take picture of it…sigh, check it out yourself next time), which is very worth the price… or so we thought until our food arrives. MANN, the stix is as small as a mini cocktail sausages, or even smaller! Sigh, conned by ads again, lol.

Notice that the Stix is as big as the drumstick

There you go, "drumstick size" Stix.. ya rite!

But the stix tasted good, crunchy on the outside and smooth on the fillings of prawns inside. We both order a mixture of original and spicy flavour for the two piece of chicken and as for drinks, I took Rose syrup while G took Pepsi. Well, it was a  nice meal overall except for the point that we do not have enough of the stix and that original flavoured fried chicken still tasted so terrible and oily at this Parit Buntar branch. Get some quality control man!

After a short detour to Watsons for some product, we headed back to hostel fast as I am going to a vegetarian steamboat at C’s house. There was nothing much I can do back at hostel and before I know it, it was 8 already and I went to C’s house with Y. There were a variety of vegetables and we dig in right away. Lucky thing I was late, supposingly it starts at 7.30, but you know, parties never start early! Hehe. Only a number was present as most of our course mates were back at home. Never mind, it means more shares of food! Lol. After steamboat, we have Barli (Cooked by C – and tasted good!) and I cook the remaining veggies with Y, which is also not bad except maybe a little too salty (coz I added all kind of flavouring and essence…:P)  and strong burnt garlic smell.

Basically, party ends at near 12 and I went back to do more chores before falling asleep. Basically it was a tiring day but there is no worry as there is nothing a good sleep can’t fix!

I had barely started doing my work and guess what stop by and visits me? CHARLIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

F***! I’ve to switch of my room light and just leave my desk light on to avoid more CHARLIE entering my room. For some moments it seems to worked. Yay!

But another 10 or 15 mins later, another flew by! OMG!! SO NOT GOOD.

and until now, i have dispose of 5 Charlie in total. Oh gosh, spare me tonite, ok? I need to get my work done! and i dun wanna no more scar at my body, the last one at both my legs is still clearly visible! no NO NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

seriously, spare me tonite! no hard feelingS ok, CHarlie?

p/s: this is not really a posting, more to whining… just can’t tahan anymore… =.=

(if u dunno wat is Charlie, refer my old posting here)