Happy Moon Cake Festival

Today is one of my favorite holiday. After a year-long wait, it's the moon cake festival again. It is usually celebrated by eating moon cake, hopia and playing a dice game. This year, our family may not be playing our annual dice game because my cousin is studying abroad. The whole dice game can be bought at Chinese bakeries. The set includes the hopia prizes available in various size, the dice set and the instructions.

We usually receive moon cakes from relatives and friends. We also buy just moon cakes to give to our relatives, friends and neighbors. The situation becomes like Christmas except that you only get moon cakes in various brands and assortment.

Moon Cake from Hong Kong

Golden Lisa Moon Cake

Local Home-made Moon Cake

Here in the Philippines, there are many flavors available like Mixed Nuts, Black Monggo, Lotus Cream and more. They may contain egg or salted duck egg. I prefer them without eggs because I want to eat more moon cake.

The Mixed Nuts has a lot of Almonds, Walnuts, Sesame Seeds, Candied Mandarin Orange and more. Although this is the most expensive, I don't like it. It's too sweet for my taste.

Mixed Nuts

The Black Monggo is similar to a hopia. I'm not found of eating hopia because it feels so dry. I love the smooth texture of the moon cake pastry and the smooth feel of the Black Monggo fillings.