Mr Libido Incognito > wrote in
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Hell there's 5 or 6
> types of moon cakes...this I found out last week.
>

More than that, probably <g>. It's the time of year when I do a bit of
research on mooncakes - Moon Festival is Sept 18 this year. A _lot_ of
them come in through the mail, and those with the whole egg yolks, or
with meat in them are not permitted entry. I have to get information out
to staff on Moon Festival and mooncakes, so I usually look around a bit
on the internet on what's out there. There are a lot of mooncakes for
sale <g>.

There's a lot more out there than the traditional mooncakes now. There's
the snowskin ones - they're not baked, the skin is made from cooked
glutinous rice flour. There are ice cream mooncakes, and coffee
mooncakes, all sorts. There are lower fat, lower sugar versions of the
traditional ones. And mooncakes with birds nest, abalone or shark fin
fillings.

Check out some of the ones mentioned here

http://www.asiacuisine.com.sg/festive/mooncake2005.htm

Mini snowskin rum and raisin chocolate truffle is pretty far from the
traditional mooncake <g>.

I've never tasted any mooncakes, myself. The traditional baked ones with
the salted egg yolk don't appear at all appetising to me, but perhaps a
rum and raisin chocolate truffle one wouldn't be so bad.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia