Has anybody had Moon Cakes and what is in them and would they be worth trying?

[DodgerGirl]

Ever since I learned about the Netflix movie Over The Moon I saw that the character Fei Fei makes Moon Cakes and I would like to know a little more about them? I know that moon cakes are a popular dessert in China and what kind of filling is in them and would they be worth eating?

 

[Figarro]

What I've had before are the traditional style "baked mooncake" (usually with white lotus paste) and the contemporary style "snow skin mooncake".
The paste inside of baked mooncake is dense and tastes quite rich. It may or may not contain egg yolk. The savoriness of the salted egg yolk tasted weird with the sweet filling when I first tried it. I don't prefer to get mooncake with egg yolk, but I still can eat it. My sister, on the other hand, doesn't like the egg yolk (in mooncake; she's ok with salted egg in dishes).
It's very filling and meant for sharing, and has high calorie content! I usually cut it in 4, 6 or even 8 pieces.

The snow skin has more modern and creative flavors such as chocolate, fruity (like yuzu, passion fruit, mango, durian, or other kind of fruits), green tea, tea, coffee, yam, black sesame, ice cream filling, or even alcohol based like champagne and lychee martini.

The baked mooncake is usually eaten at room temperature but the snow skin is usually served cold (stored in refrigerator). The snow skin is kind of like mochi.

But what i like best of the mooncake is the packaging lol.
Since they are also given as gifts, some of them are sold in pretty packaging that can be re-purporsed as jewelry box.

 

[anniemae]

I think they are very dense and filling. They are typically shared and one mooncake can be split with 3-4 people and are eaten a lot during the lunar new year festival. They are filled with different fillings like bean paste. I think there are more Americanized versions with chocolate fillings, but the traditional ones are usually filled with lotus seed paste.

 

[China Expat]

Having lived in CHina, moon cakes are a big deal leading up to Mid-Autumn festival. I like the red bean paste ones. My students never really seemed to enjoy them!

 

[DodgerGirl]

There's chocolate moon cakes? I would love those because I love anything chocolate? As I mentioned I discovered Moon Cakes through the Netflix movie Over The Moon and wanted to learn more about them

 

[LuvOrlando]

I have had a few kinds and appreciated it as a cultural sharing so for that it was very nice. I did not like any enough to seek them out for their own sake because of great taste, I would not call it a dessert. There are markets that sell them but they seem to come in large packs of many that tend to be expensive and unless you love them one would be enough.

 

[china mom]

I did not like them AT ALL. So we made it a tradition to celebrate the Moon Festival with moon pies instead. DD was too young to know the difference and we never clarified. She is probably going to embarrass herself one day... I should probably clear that up sometime.

 

[BrianL]

I have only ever heard of Moon Pies.

 

[bcla]

What I've had before are the traditional style "baked mooncake" (usually with white lotus paste) and the contemporary style "snow skin mooncake".

Traditional is either lotus seed paste, date paste, or red bean paste. With or without salted duck egg yolks.

But today it's whatever. It's turned into whatever varieties something thinks of. I've seen some that have pineapple. Basically just a larger version of a Taiwanese pineapple cake.

 

[bcla]

I have had a few kinds and appreciated it as a cultural sharing so for that it was very nice. I did not like any enough to seek them out for their own sake because of great taste, I would not call it a dessert. There are markets that sell them but they seem to come in large packs of many that tend to be expensive and unless you love them one would be enough.

Costco has a lot of them these days, but maybe a decade ago they were new to it. I saw some that were from Taiwan and sold for $8.88.