This year's Mooncake, Lantern or Mid-Autumn Festival was a little special in that I took the pains to go to Sheraton Towers to pick up greentea snowskin mooncakes. It was worth the effort, we realised, when we put the luminous and dark green quarters in our mouths. In the middle of the cakes, there was a white choco ball with truffle. Yum! But I preferred the maccha (green tea).
Earlier in the month, we picked up the signature cempedak (jackfruit) and durian from Singapore's second oldest hotel. Somehow I couldn't find the same old fragrance and texture. The durian ones did not come out of their moulds well and so there were no peony designs on them! That made me decide to pick the cakes up from Sheraton instead.
But looking at this picture, we felt that the leisurely atmosphere of tea and snacks that we used to enjoy in the office on this day has already gone. Instead the three of us, CK and our PRC friend, were the only ones eating the green tea and the yuuzu (Japanese citrus) varieties from Peony Jade, a restaurant which CK claimed was the best for mooncakes this year -2010. He based this on a review that he read "somewhere". The yuuzu cakes were ice-cream mooncakes which were, of course, easy to eat. Our PRC friend seemed to enjoy the yuuzu more than the green tea ones. Now we're counting down to the end of 2010. Oops.
