@Ann S yeah same! Okay, that was a lie. I’ve never had mooncakes, or at least remember having it. But, I would really love it! Also, Carmen loves it too, like she said in the mooncake guide.
Moon cakes were called "moon" cakes because of the egg yolk which represents a full moon. I love the egg yolk because it gives a good salty contrast to the sweet paste inside. Sweet and salty is always an awesome combo!!
canadian here : I LOVE MOONCAKE!!! (the ones with egg yolks! YUM!) Dragon beard candy is something my mother bought me everytime we went to the city and "Chinatown" I really like it :)
Lol given China’s culinary diversity this is not surprising. I have chinese friends who have never heard of desserts I grew up with and vice versa. I know all of the ones in this video and yeah they truly are popular chinese desserts
+Alisha Stufflebeam (MorticiansSoul) She's right, we don't :( But Chinese business people take note--you'd do a ROARING trade if you opened a Chinese bakery here & have no competition.*fingers crossed*
+Brooke Katz you got to try it yourself. it's so good for you but I can't think of any taste comparable off the top of my head. maybe apple without as much sweetness. love lotus root!
No egg yolk?! No way!! For the traditional mooncake, it's not mooncake without the yolk. How about 蛋散? Don't know what it's called in English, but it's super yum, especially when it's still hot, and dripping with golden syrup.
The pear actually soothes your cold/sore throat because its soaked in honey and its warm. Honey has anti-inflammatory properties and infection preventing properties along with the pear's nutritional values, so it actually helps a lot :)
just want to say, the steam pear does work! my mom was heal by this when she was young~ and it healed me too when I got a really serious cold. so, go for it guys^-^
HAPPYPANDA53 Hahaha!! Reminds me of my first moon cake experience!! No.. just no. But the snow skin moon cakes are to die for tho! Mmmmm! Traditional moon cakes just don't cut it anymore! D:
OMG! The red tortoise cake was my favourite growing up. I'm from Thailand and this sweet is very rare. I believe it used to be popular cake as my parents also grew up with it. It was brought to Thailand with Chinese immigrants generations ago. The filling is mung bean. Sweet and bit salty. I only had it whenever we went to visit my mum's parents as there was an old lady who sold it at the old market.
next time try those with 4 yolks! its gonna cost you a lot more, but do it at least once :) BTW its the chinese 7th month now (ghost month) so the moon cakes are starting to be made like crazy for next month's 'celebration'.
Have you guys tried those meat-filled mooncakes? We don't have much of a sweet tooth in our family xD But... um... yoke... I actually started liking them recently. Otherwise, I think I'm more picky over red bean. Never liked red bean paste xD
@Momo Domo I like red bean paste, but not red beans. I’ve also never tried mooncakes, or at least don’t remember it. I really want to try it, though. I’d like a lotus paste mooncake with as many egg yolks as possible, just like what Carmen said in the mooncake guide video.
mooncake and salty egg yolks are awesome. my other fav is the red bean mooncake and green tea with pumpkin seeds wash down with hot chinese tea. yummy and refreshing
Nana S You can get it in Chinatown I'm pretty sure, but the it won't be chewy at all. For the real deal, you seriously have to go to China and get the real stuff from a market or something.
In Malaysia, there is a population of about 22.6% of Chinese. Frankly speaking, I have heard 6 out of 10 Chinese desserts mentioned here... Jelly mooncake and Snow skin mooncake have been around for many years. In fact, they are really popular during Mid Autumn Festival here. Honeydew sago, no doubt, is a classic here... but it has been evolved into other fruits as well, like mango. The Red Tortoise Cake (Angku Kueh) is available all year round. Similarly, dragon beard candies are found in night market (pasar malam) here... The pumpkin bun and the water chestnut cake are available in dim sum shops here. In summary, all the desserts here are really common in Malaysia.
Red Tortoise Cake 紅龜糕 is a typical southern Min confectionery. Usually they bake it to make offerings during prayers for auspicious event like wedding prayer, spring festival eve prayer, the Jade Emperor or Tiangong birthday on the 9th day of the spring festival, the full moon ceremony for new born baby etc etc.
I've actually considered making traditional mooncakes myself (Cantonese style preferably) and have asked myself many times whether or not to include the egg yolk. At times I want to include it because I want to be as authentic as possible, but at the same time I know many ingredients may not be available in the KC metro area where I live, and that I'll likely be making these for either friends or family, both of whom are American and likely have never had mooncakes before and I don't want to give them something too "weird" or "unfamiliar" to them. So to anyone reading this, should I go out of my way to search for the salted duck egg yolks for the sake of authenticity should I eventually make mooncakes or should I hold back on them for the sake of the people I'll be making them for? P.S. Any idea on what fillings I should use? Because I have a similar dilemma there.
hi, I am Chinese also, and when I was younger there was this place in Chinatown in LA that served tiny apples, dipped in batter, fried, and then covered in honey and dipped in sesame seeds...I don't know what they are called, but they are so good.
I had some mooncakes at an Asian garden and teahouse in Oregon so long ago. I remember there being a green tea one, which was my favourite, a lotus one, and I think red bean paste. I don't recall any yolks in them.
Eleonore Bon Aaatually there's a true story about some scientists that found two turtles in some weird forest place I forgot about and there was a PREDICTION that they were about 2 thousand years old they were just lying there in their shells as if they seemed to be waiting for a storm or something to pass the scientists took them and they lasted for a few months one was named Beau I don't know all the details though try searching it up
it''s the best part.... it's not like a plain boiled egg yoke. it' firm and salty, but a nice contrast to the sweet paste that most of the moon cake is made of anyways.
All moon cake, steamed pairs, honeydew sago, 8 treasure rice pudding, red tortoise cake, water chestnut nut cake, pumpkin Chinese bun, dragons beard cake, and stuffed lotus fruit are so so so so good. My favorite one tho is 8 treasure rice pudding
Steamed pear is the best! My mom would make it whenever we had a sore throat while sick. She would add ginger, raw honey, and a shot of whiskey to the dish.
DEFINITELY WITH THE YOLK, DUHHHH. Hahaha but seriously, I love the yolk so much i secretly dig them out of some mooncakes xD What is a mooncake without the beloved yolk? xDD &&& OMG #4 & #9
Off the Great Wall NO YOLK!!! Hard boiled egg and then sliced!!! Sadly, I live in DC WITH HORRID authentic Asian Chinese as they keep cooking to how they think we Americans would want it (I have Asian friends and the difference is THERE ARE NO WORDS)!!!!!! I have YET to see an Asian bakery separate from a full on Asian grocery's desserts/baked goods section!!! T_T!!! STUPID DC!!! CAN'T EVEN GET GOOD DIM SUM!!! I HAD BETTER IN NY AS A KID!!!
In Malaysia we can have red turtle cakes aka "ang Gu Kueh" in (hokkien)any time any where as long as there's stores that sell Asian pastries and cakes!
for some reasons I always consider steamed pear as a British dish. I've read a book by a mainlander who worked in Cambridge, the most surprising thing to her in a formal dinner is that english actually steam pears as a dish. In china people are more likely to boil pears instead of steam them.
well we have something similar to the " 8 treasure rice pudding" in the middle eastern, it's called aşure in turkey and it's usually made with beans rice chickpeas and dried fruit like apricot and figs and usually topped with pomegranate, the sad thing about it is that we make it once a year on a special day, traditionally you make a whole pot and share it with family friends and neighbours
My favorite is lotus seed paste mooncake with DOUBLE YOLK, NO-- TRIPLE YOLK, NO-- AS MANY YOLKS AS YOU CAN FIT
@Ann S yeah same! Okay, that was a lie. I’ve never had mooncakes, or at least remember having it. But, I would really love it! Also, Carmen loves it too, like she said in the mooncake guide.
👍😅
That sounds amazing
I like them but they’re so expensive.
U7
Proud to be asian cause I ate all that good stuff xD
Celeste Ng same, but I live in America now and I cant eat all that stuff cause I'm in Kansas...😢
Same
Nice.
Moon cakes were called "moon" cakes because of the egg yolk which represents a full moon. I love the egg yolk because it gives a good salty contrast to the sweet paste inside. Sweet and salty is always an awesome combo!!
canadian here : I LOVE MOONCAKE!!! (the ones with egg yolks! YUM!)
Dragon beard candy is something my mother bought me everytime we went to the city and "Chinatown" I really like it :)
I'm Chinese and I didn't know half of these
Shirley Yuan Same xD What a failure to our culture
Shirley Yuan I know about 5-6 of these though I don't really like them. I am Chinese by the way.
Shirley Yuan yeah but I'm only 8 so I'm fine not knowing these things
Lol given China’s culinary diversity this is not surprising. I have chinese friends who have never heard of desserts I grew up with and vice versa. I know all of the ones in this video and yeah they truly are popular chinese desserts
Your parents never told you about moon cakes?
I live in Iowa and can validate that we have no Chinese bakeries.
Alisha Stufflebeam I did too, there's no Chinese most things lol
+Alisha Stufflebeam (MorticiansSoul) We don't have any Chinese bakeries in my part of Kentucky either. :(
+Alisha Stufflebeam (MorticiansSoul) She's right, we don't :( But Chinese business people take note--you'd do a ROARING trade if you opened a Chinese bakery here & have no competition.*fingers crossed*
+Off the Great Wall What does Lotus Root taste like?
+Brooke Katz you got to try it yourself. it's so good for you but I can't think of any taste comparable off the top of my head. maybe apple without as much sweetness. love lotus root!
Is this why Chinese people are generally thin and healthy looking
loo
lol'
I'm Chinese people
Lian Wan
No your not
SmoothRide Scooter Im 50% on wat ur sayin coz I was born in ENGLAND AND RAISED THERE WITH DELICIOUS foods
No egg yolk?! No way!! For the traditional mooncake, it's not mooncake without the yolk.
How about 蛋散? Don't know what it's called in English, but it's super yum, especially when it's still hot, and dripping with golden syrup.
My GOD that tastes soooo good!
I agree
Mochi is the best desert. Always. Always.
No, Antarctica is the best desert.
I'm going to curl up in a hole over my typo right now. kthxbye
+周 むてん（Lel On'Yomi Readings） Actually Antarctica isn't really a desert it's an ice continent... But close enough. Red bean moichi is just awesome.
+Blu Whale Hype! I meant mochi don't kill me for my mistake xD
Technically, it is a desert, as the definition if desert is an arid region with sparse vegetation. You'll be surprised at how little it rains there.
I love the Ang Ku Kueh (red tortoise cake)! Especially the traditional ones with savoury mung bean fillings.
Yes nice.
The pear actually soothes your cold/sore throat because its soaked in honey and its warm. Honey has anti-inflammatory properties and infection preventing properties along with the pear's nutritional values, so it actually helps a lot :)
just want to say, the steam pear does work! my mom was heal by this when she was young~ and it healed me too when I got a really serious cold. so, go for it guys^-^
as a norwegian, this is interesting i must say. great to learn more about chinese culture :P
egg yolk mooncakes are the best!!!the slighty salty taste mixed with the sweetness of the cake is just divine!!
The dragon's beard candy is really good T^T i really enjoy eating it T^T
Never tried it
NO EGG YOLK. PERIOD.
:D
Egg yolk is just.. *shivers* bleughhhh!
my sentiments exactly :-)
Off the Great Wall *_* Didn't expect a reply back, but you just made my NIGHT! *starstruck* :D
hehehehehe clever
I lost my mooncake virginity to the whole egg yolk type, I nearly threw up :D
HAPPYPANDA53 Hahaha!! Reminds me of my first moon cake experience!! No.. just no. But the snow skin moon cakes are to die for tho! Mmmmm! Traditional moon cakes just don't cut it anymore! D:
Chinese bakeries! Egg Tarts! -drools- I'm with Dan on the egg yolk.
Why do you guys not mention my favourite things D:
Kelly Chen too common
these are not chinese. its japanese , they just copied as always.
asdewq9683 hater?
Rin Wakatsuki Lol!
omg dragon beard candy is love dragon beard candy is life
i know almost all of these except the last one, the lotus root with the sticky rice. never had that before. the water chestnut cake is my favorite!!
OMG! The red tortoise cake was my favourite growing up. I'm from Thailand and this sweet is very rare. I believe it used to be popular cake as my parents also grew up with it. It was brought to Thailand with Chinese immigrants generations ago. The filling is mung bean. Sweet and bit salty. I only had it whenever we went to visit my mum's parents as there was an old lady who sold it at the old market.
Yes.
Mooncake with eggyolk! Once i had a mooncake with 2 eggyolks it's the bomb ♡_♡
next time try those with 4 yolks! its gonna cost you a lot more, but do it at least once :)
BTW its the chinese 7th month now (ghost month) so the moon cakes are starting to be made like crazy for next month's 'celebration'.
omg i didnt know 4 yolks exist! thanks :)
the red turtoise cake sounds so good ! xD sadly we dont have such..stores here.. that serve chinese desserts
Tamara van vliet it's awesome!
We find them really easily here in Malaysia
Eleanor Lee we can find it in sg too
Eleanor Lee Practically every market has them on a daily basis too :)
Have you guys tried those meat-filled mooncakes? We don't have much of a sweet tooth in our family xD
But... um... yoke... I actually started liking them recently. Otherwise, I think I'm more picky over red bean. Never liked red bean paste xD
Momo Domo yessssss meat mooncakes
@Momo Domo I like red bean paste, but not red beans. I’ve also never tried mooncakes, or at least don’t remember it. I really want to try it, though. I’d like a lotus paste mooncake with as many egg yolks as possible, just like what Carmen said in the mooncake guide video.
mooncake and salty egg yolks are awesome. my other fav is the red bean mooncake and green tea with pumpkin seeds wash down with hot chinese tea. yummy and refreshing
This channel makes everything look so delicious! Makes me wish we had this in Florida🤤🤤🤤
I wish they showed the osmanthus jelly. That's the best.
Dragons beard candy is my favourite 😍
JIKOOK is more real than my existence ii
Love Dragon's beard candy! Where can I get it in Chicago please? Chinatown?
Nana S You can get it in Chinatown I'm pretty sure, but the it won't be chewy at all. For the real deal, you seriously have to go to China and get the real stuff from a market or something.
***** I really don't know, I'm not an expert. I'm sure Singapore does have it too, I've been there multiple times
In Malaysia, there is a population of about 22.6% of Chinese. Frankly speaking, I have heard 6 out of 10 Chinese desserts mentioned here... Jelly mooncake and Snow skin mooncake have been around for many years. In fact, they are really popular during Mid Autumn Festival here. Honeydew sago, no doubt, is a classic here... but it has been evolved into other fruits as well, like mango. The Red Tortoise Cake (Angku Kueh) is available all year round. Similarly, dragon beard candies are found in night market (pasar malam) here... The pumpkin bun and the water chestnut cake are available in dim sum shops here. In summary, all the desserts here are really common in Malaysia.
Red Tortoise Cake 紅龜糕 is a typical southern Min confectionery. Usually they bake it to make offerings during prayers for auspicious event like wedding prayer, spring festival eve prayer, the Jade Emperor or Tiangong birthday on the 9th day of the spring festival, the full moon ceremony for new born baby etc etc.
I've actually considered making traditional mooncakes myself (Cantonese style preferably) and have asked myself many times whether or not to include the egg yolk.
At times I want to include it because I want to be as authentic as possible, but at the same time I know many ingredients may not be available in the KC metro area where I live, and that I'll likely be making these for either friends or family, both of whom are American and likely have never had mooncakes before and I don't want to give them something too "weird" or "unfamiliar" to them.
So to anyone reading this, should I go out of my way to search for the salted duck egg yolks for the sake of authenticity should I eventually make mooncakes or should I hold back on them for the sake of the people I'll be making them for?
P.S. Any idea on what fillings I should use? Because I have a similar dilemma there.
Did you know that Hong Kong has Ice-Cream Moon Cakes Now??
Keisha Lau Send us one!
Off the Great Wall haha sorry, I live in Perth 😄 😂
Keisha Lau I Live in Melbourne so Woo Hoo Australia
Keisha Lau that came out like 10 years ago
Alyson Lin LITERALLY
MOONCAKE!! With egg yoke! :D You guys should do a 台灣小吃！
kpopluve100 WANT TO, especially in taiwan...LOVE TAIWAN
Off the Great Wall
Yes! I recently went to Taiwan and ate so much food at night markets! It would be so awesome to see you guys do a video on it! :D
if we can ever get to taiwan, would love that
Off the Great Wall yes! I agree with her! They have the best food in Taiwan! Lots of variety...
Off the Great Wall Oh also... I like the egg yolk moon cake.
hi, I am Chinese also, and when I was younger there was this place in Chinatown in LA that served tiny apples, dipped in batter, fried, and then covered in honey and dipped in sesame seeds...I don't know what they are called, but they are so good.
also, no yolk
I'm Vietnam and I loveeeeeee egg yolk in meh moon cakes at full moon festivals and Chinese New Year!
Team "No Egg Yolk" 😝
Egg yolk sucks
Me too
Yes Egg Yolk
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Hey Jasmine! Thanks for the love :-)
I FEEL LIKE A CELEBRITY!!!! THNX FOR MAKING MY DAY!!! I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEW VIDEOS!!!
Awesome!
I had some mooncakes at an Asian garden and teahouse in Oregon so long ago. I remember there being a green tea one, which was my favourite, a lotus one, and I think red bean paste. I don't recall any yolks in them.
Yes, with one. It taste super awsome
@6:43 Turtles as old as 1000s of years! Let's make that 100s of years. But that's still old of course.
I haven't seen the red turtle cake before
Eleonore Bon Aaatually there's a true story about some scientists that found two turtles in some weird forest place I forgot about and there was a PREDICTION that they were about 2 thousand years old they were just lying there in their shells as if they seemed to be waiting for a storm or something to pass the scientists took them and they lasted for a few months one was named Beau I don't know all the details though try searching it up
Andrew Tse u can find it at Malaysia Chinese street dessert stall or the shop they do new born full moon gift packaging service.
As long as they live longer than me, I'm eatting them!
EGG YOLK!!! DOUBLE YOLK! XD
I hate the egg yolk in moon cakes 😂
Team Mike then?
Me toooo!!!!!
+Xx_Dark_ Angel_xX same
Lauren G omg, u don't even know
Lauren G i luv it
Me and my mother always cook sweet red bean dessert and sometimes make it into a drink with coconut milk....so yum
The Dragon Beard candies are delicious! I've tried the peanut and black sesame varieties, and I love them both.
You left out 'Bing tung Hu Lu'... One of China's most oldest and tastiest desert out there!!
ling ling Y E S SOMEONE REMEMBERS
I bought a tomato bing tang hu lu in ning xia ye shi I ate two and gave the rest to my sister. Too sweer
Egg yolk! It's the best bit!
Emily Yip nooooooooooooooooooo
Noooo it is yucky >~
it''s the best part.... it's not like a plain boiled egg yoke. it' firm and salty, but a nice contrast to the sweet paste that most of the moon cake is made of anyways.
I've had the snow skin moon cake they're pretty good and the come in different flavors
Dragon's beard candy is by far my most favorite one. But I also like mooncake and also making moshis with my daughter.
All moon cake, steamed pairs, honeydew sago, 8 treasure rice pudding, red tortoise cake, water chestnut nut cake, pumpkin Chinese bun, dragons beard cake, and stuffed lotus fruit are so so so so good. My favorite one tho is 8 treasure rice pudding
Yes egg yolk. Mike is cray cray. Egg Yolk moon cakes are dah BEST! No offense Mike. :)
Doe Man yea Mike is very cray cray!!
no yolk
i specifically look for the ones without when I buy mooncakes
me too emily and my mom looks for non yolked ones too
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
We call the red tortoise cake
Ang gu kueh here in Singapore.-.
Twicetrashhh I liked because of the profile pic 😂momo and tzuyu!!!!
With yolk Chinese moon cake.... (Taiwanese)I like pineapple cake鳳梨酥I also like this white kind of jelly milky thing. SO SO SO GOOD.its sweet.
Steamed pear is the best! My mom would make it whenever we had a sore throat while sick. She would add ginger, raw honey, and a shot of whiskey to the dish.
I actually don't like the egg yolk, I always scoop the egg yolk out of the mooncake when I eat them.
Judy Sun lol
Judy Sun I take out the part that touched the yolk. If my fork touched the yolk, I will wash it
send the egg yolk to me 🤤🤤
I learned about moon cakes from the movie Wendy Wu home coming warrior lol I didn't even know they were real for a really long time
And the dragons beard thing is like "pişmaniye"
My grandma always make 8 treasure rice pudding, red turtle cake ,and water chestnut cake near New Years! There so yummy.
they all looked sooo good!
Team egg yolk
Joshua Kleiner me both
No egg yolk because I can't eat egg XD
Same!
I live in Singapore and I tasted all of them! :) Even though I love Western food more than Asian food, these delicacies are really yummy! :D
Me too!!! I love them too
True im like that too
Nice.
I would love to see you guys make more recipe videos!
THE RED TORTOISE CAKE LOOKS AND SEEMS SO GOOD.
DEFINITELY WITH THE YOLK, DUHHHH. Hahaha but seriously, I love the yolk so much i secretly dig them out of some mooncakes xD
What is a mooncake without the beloved yolk? xDD
&&& OMG #4 & #9
Moon cake without egg yolk
YES EGG YOLK
Elizabeth Richardson being on #teamdan sux...just sayin
Off the Great Wall NO YOLK!!! Hard boiled egg and then sliced!!! Sadly, I live in DC WITH HORRID authentic Asian Chinese as they keep cooking to how they think we Americans would want it (I have Asian friends and the difference is THERE ARE NO WORDS)!!!!!! I have YET to see an Asian bakery separate from a full on Asian grocery's desserts/baked goods section!!! T_T!!! STUPID DC!!! CAN'T EVEN GET GOOD DIM SUM!!! I HAD BETTER IN NY AS A KID!!!
I had rice puff balls with lotus seed paste filling, amazing!
I've only ever eaten one mooncake in my life. It had a double egg yolk and that made me SO happy.
no egg yolk!
double egg yolkkkk
Yes egg yolk
The stuffed lotus root with sticky rice is SOOO good
I tried that Dragon Beard Candy for the very first time in Toronto, Canada. The best weird texture
No-yolk moon cakes!
Maroon Cherry Mooncake AAIIIIYYYYAAA NOOOOOOO😂😂
am i the only one that really HATES egg yolks?¿
Senna Sahin Same 😂
The egg yolk is oily
Senna Sahin SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
i know all of these desserts. i'm Asian ^-^
me too
yay!
Me too
and me too
my favourites are always lotus root soup and red bean sticky rice with plums.
i love it with the egg yolk!
I've heard of most of those :3
Damn I live under a rock and my boyfriend is half chinese.
And he's hiding all this from u
Yes EggYolk!
Totally agree, without a yolk!
In Malaysia we can have red turtle cakes aka "ang Gu Kueh" in (hokkien)any time any where as long as there's stores that sell Asian pastries and cakes!
for the traditional moon cake the only part I like is the egg in the middle...
Me and my sister both ate a fresh Asian pear picked straight from the tree the other day.
Love egg yolks!
I always eat this Lotus root with sticky rice ,my favorite,always make for my daughter and her friends
Mooncakes with yolks = yum
That said, I have had some of these treats. And each of them opened up my eyes to the different foods across China.
I love Red Turtle Cake. we have this cake in my country called Kue Ku
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no egg yolk
Love chinese deserts, I love lao po bing, I baked them once, yummy. You guys are sooo funny!! Much love from Chile. I
I love jelly moon cake. I'm Asian and always look forward to eating food😂 I always love when you post because I feel like I can relate.
I hate Mooncake with egg yoke
No egg yolk. Just no.
Vocaloid fan me too
for some reasons I always consider steamed pear as a British dish. I've read a book by a mainlander who worked in Cambridge, the most surprising thing to her in a formal dinner is that english actually steam pears as a dish. In china people are more likely to boil pears instead of steam them.
I love moon cake with egg yolk! So good
well we have something similar to the " 8 treasure rice pudding" in the middle eastern, it's called aşure in turkey and it's usually made with beans rice chickpeas and dried fruit like apricot and figs and usually topped with pomegranate, the sad thing about it is that we make it once a year on a special day, traditionally you make a whole pot and share it with family friends and neighbours