Mr Ham is by far the most witty and humorous businessman I have ever come across so far! Hahaha, he really pleased and delighted me with his words, and I thoroughly enjoyed this video thanks to him :)
Love Mr Ham's candidness and thoughtfulness! I remember trying those fancy mooncake with fancy ingredients and names and... I was just like you call this a mooncake haha. That being said I kinda enjoy durian mooncakes. Not so much the price though.
Bring back the tradition of carrying colourful animal lanterns as well for children. Hope to see all these cultural traditions upheld and creativity expanded upon. More light / lantern shows in the evening. In temperate climates, this festival is more significant as the weather gradually gets colder, warm lights make people feel cosier and homely.
As a Vietnamese, I could recommend you to buy mooncake from old-school bakeries. If Singapore have Tai Chong Kok, then we have Bảo Phương, Bà Dần in Hanoi, Đông Phương in Haiphong and Như Lan, Nam Việt and Phương Diêm Thuận in HCMC. Aside, these snowskin mooncake have been a part of Vietnamese traditional mooncake since unknown time, and they are bloody good lol
My hubs (in his 30s, not born in the 30s) loveeees tai chong kok's mooncakes and he stands firmly by them. Every year without fail before we married, he would buy them for my parents and he certainly agrees it has the most simple packaging but yet still it has the best taste! Mr Ham can keep the same paper packaging, just maybe get a designer to draw cuter images la!
The designs usually very gaudy, won’t look nice with the color scheme of my house. Ppl gift me mooncakes & I throw away the tin box below my house. I also give away the mooncakes cos I don’t have a sweet tooth.
Those days they had simple packaging with white papers wrapping around the mooncakes. We only bought those with boxes for our relatives. By the way, super long queue at Tai Chong Kok back then.
I think it’s important to acknowledge the origin of mooncake / 月饼and moon festivals/ mid autumn festivals / 中秋节which can be traced all the way back to ancient times in mainland china( with archaeological evidences and literature document). Those beautiful traditions accompanies by poetries (水调歌头),songs and dances are brought to many parts of the world by Chinese immigrant such as Singaporeans . Although due to the CCP mainstream western English speaking media or YT is willing to celebrate or mention much of it. It’s such a shame culture has to be ties with politics.
Out of these snow skin mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes & jelly mooncakes, I still prefer the traditional mooncake more 😊 It gives me the good old memories.
But u dunno what’s healthy food. Mooncake is just processed food with lots of refined sugar. I won’t even classify it as food. They are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate. And it has become so commercialized that ppl have to gift mooncakes to show their partnership. If I receive them as gifts, I’ll usually leave the mooncakes below my house in their original packaging or give them away to other ppl.
@@ABC-ed8cg It's not lame products. I enjoy this festivals a lot. Problem with society is Singaporean trying to come up with new creative stuff that diverts from tradition. Such as rice dumpling, now people use different leaves and fillings to make it. No sense
nothing wrong with varieties to keep the holiday alive and interesting...if it's the same thing year over year it's gonna get boring/repetitive and ppl will soon lose interest in it...
call me an oldie but I love the traditional mooncakes especially the white lotus paste one. I wish I found out about Tai Chong Kok. I would have ordered from them instead.... oh there is always next year.
I’d never heard of a moon cake until this video. Never been to anywhere in Asia yet sadly. But I want an entire tv series with Mr Ham in his moon cake shop like with the UK Chicken Shop series. What an irreverent character! He’s naturally and effortlessly hilarious, charismatic, but wise. I would listen to him all day!
Mooncakes look amazing, but taste like unsweetened bread, hardboiled egg yoke, and bean paste. Almost every American that tries one for the first time is disappointed because they assume it will be dessert-like and they are not.
I'm a foreigner but live in one of the many North American city with strong a Chinese diaspora community and I love regular moon cakes so so much. Every year I get excited for Mid-Autumn Festival when the Asian grocery stores all start carrying mooncakes so I can pick them up anywhere instead of going to the specific chain of bakeries that carry just the lotus or red bean ones year round. The only novelty one I've tried had pineapple filling and I was so disappointed! It tasted and more importantly FELT completely different from the hearty seed or bean paste I'm used to, it was basically a completely different treat, more like a fig newton or something, not worth it! Mid-Autumn Festival is a special time and I don't mind traditions evolving, as long as they don't fully displace wonderful, original creations like "plain" mooncakes. I had a hell of a time trying to find some with salted egg yolk for my British husband to try, as they've been selling out since the shelf space is limited and the novelty mooncakes take up more and more space every year, and he agrees with me and Mr. Ham, salty, sweet, bitter, it's all there and it's the best!
I buy the $2-$3 for 5 type. Made in Malaysia. No egg yoke , just lotus seed paste or red bean paste. I see the supermarket another type 1 for $3-$4 , ok price but I've eaten too much moon cakes over the years. I like "La Pia", bigger than moon cake, flatter but diameter is bigger. This year I never buy any mooncake at all.
Love the packaging, yet stressed out as no one like to eat bec of the calories :(. Need to find ways to share the dozens of yummy. An uneasy task. A blessed problem...
The quality of mooncake was the best in the 80s especially from the brand liu fa ji.A box of 4 lotus paste mooncakes cost only $7.6 in 1986.(cheap and good).No point paying through the nose for mooncakes.I rather èat ntuc brand 2 liter chochalate icecream selling for $6.5 a tub.
If you are Singaporean, you should really be asking "Why are Singaporean obsessed with Whiteman's Christmas and santa clause" Banana Singaporean questioning their own cultural traditions with dismissal air totally piss me off.
It was a fair question given the sheer price of some of them. What makes people spend so much on a cake that they rarely would do outside of mid-autumn festival?
Yeah I was there and saw all this stuff for Halloween that made no sense at all, Halloween is a pagan religious holiday from Anglo Europe celebrating sprits and witchcraft... What the hell is Chinese doing celebrating that nonsense
I just have bad experience with the mooncake I've bought, its was spoil and the response from the seller was unsatisfied, where can I make a complaint and get the mooncake tested
Tradition being a fluid thing is a really interesting concept. Although, in countries like Italy, food traditions are really fucking hard to die because they are supported by citizens of that country. Whereas the weakness of this mooncakes situation seems to be that Singaporean, on par of some other Asian populations, are quite fixated on trying the next new thing easily forgetting about the past. Showing off on social media also doesn't help the traditional products that are seen as obvious and uninteresting. I believe a cultural campaign to give importance to traditional food (and not only) is really needed.
People are bored of eating the same old massive chunk of lotus seed puree with a big salty egg yolk. some people probably don't even like the traditional moon cake in the first place. Ice skin moon cakes are older than all zoomer already, it will be part of the tradition in the future
Still like the Traditional mooncakes. But most Traditional mooncakes now doesn't has that "Unhealthy" "Traditional" taste already. 🙄 And the price ....
The taste of the product is more important, than the packaging, I think. No matter how good they look like, if they don't taste good, there would be no returning customers.
@@tangt4860 I like the traditional type from Hong Kong like Wing Wah or Lei Garden. It comes chock full of ingredients no frills box plus smooth lotus paste without a lot of grease or sugar to cover up ... Having said, at least we're celebrating Chinese tradition here.
@@mpc5584 those are quite factory stuff brands. Never touched them even though they get shipped over to Singapore as the factory may just be situated in Shenzhen or some funny town in China. BTW just discovered Dreyers ice cream sold in NTUC comes from err HK.
@@tangt4860 hah. Lei Garden is good better than Shang, Hua Ting, on par with Ritz Carlton. Will be keen to know what you think are the good ones in HK. :)). Miss 老婆饼 and 鸡蛋仔 happy belated mid autumns!!
Mooncake is not my cup of tea. Besides it is totally overpriced. There is no reason to increase price every year by 10 to 20%. Money is in my pocket. No way you can get it just to make the different packaging.
Mooncakes taste like cr*p. Processed food with lots of refined sugar. I wouldn’t even eat it if ppl gift it to me, let alone fork out my own $. Ppl have bought me expensive ones in nice packaging. They don’t impress me cos I only care about real & organic food, not processed food with no substance. I’ll leave the mooncakes below my house in the original packaging so less discerning folks would take them lol
Why are Singaporeans obsessed with mooncakes? Aiyah, anything that can go into their mouths they'll be obsessed-lah. Then whatever comes out will obviously be compressed. Disrupt their supply chain and they'll be depressed.
All of these beautiful traditions from so many parts of the World, food, dances, music and so on... It doesn't matter if you're Muslim, Chinese, living by the sea or bad at playing the guitar, I believe that if you come from an ancient country with a deep culture, as long as it's not violent, we should always make an effort to keep traditions alive and, if possible, to let foreign travellers enjoy them. Let's have fun all together and try to solve the problems of this world instead of creating more for the benefit of a bunch of ultrarich ugly individuals.
Teach your children - when people have too much money, they do indeed become lunatics and retards of consumption, even if they are Scholars. Just this Sept alone, a Taiwan tea seller set up a stall in Singapore and almost sold out all the tea, mostly less than superior quality, marked up to more than 400% but which had been sitting on the shelves in Taipei.
I buy zero piece cos I don’t have a sweet tooth. And I find all these seasonal treats quite lame. Mooncakes are just overpriced cr*p, lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate.
We are losing our true identity, isn't it? Everthing has to cater to others' whims and fancy. Those who has purchasing power dictates which direction we have to go
Because majority of Singaporean Chinese are from the origin mainland China.. Not natives though.. So this culture related to their ancestors country CHINA.
Downfall of traditional moon cake is they have become too expensive and so profitable. The easy money is for the picking for everyone. Being buying and eating 大中国 for decades。Plain lotus is family favourite. Stop supporting the greed from this year. Shall need to find an honest traditional maker, maybe in Malaysia to fulfill our taste butt in future..
Mooncakes are overpriced cr*p. Just refined sugar & lots of additives. I wouldn’t even buy it. At Hai Di Lao, they gave us a small one on the actual day. I left it at the table. My cousin gave my mum a durian snow-skin mooncake. I only tried 1/8 of it. And that’s enough mooncake for a year. I’m 43kg & I lead a healthy lifestyle. Many say they indulge only ‘once a year’. But those who say that also indulge in themselves too often on other stuff & their health suffers. Of course Mr Ham would say the obvious, since he wanna emphasize the fact that established brands don’t have to waste time on packaging. Still, if you think about it, mooncakes are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate. And it has become so commercialized that ppl have to gift mooncakes to show their partnership. Even if they gift Tai chong Kok’s mooncake, I’ll find it excessive. My bro-in-law’s housing agent is good friends with all of us and he just helped to sell my in-laws’ house recently. He bought mooncakes for my in-laws & bro-in-law. We told him firmly we don’t want mooncakes not because we are standing on ceremony but because we don’t have sweet tooth.
man... u must be fun at parties... i mean if u want to be a pessimist and a downer u can say that about any holiday... why do ppl spend hundreds of dollars on a christmas tree to be thrown out a month later? Well if u think about it then christmas trees are just another lame product of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate....
to be more precise ,why are ' SINGPOREAN CHINESE ' obsessed with mooncakes? i'm pretty sure majority of singaporean malays/indians don't give a damn about mooncakes.
Cos he’s lame. Mooncakes are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate. They’re also processed food with lots of refined sugar which does our health no favor. I wouldn’t even eat it if gifted it, much less fork out my own $. I’ve received quite a few. It’s rude to reject gifts. But I’ll leave the mooncakes in their packaging below my house for less discerning folks to pick it up.
Mr Ham is by far the most witty and humorous businessman I have ever come across so far! Hahaha, he really pleased and delighted me with his words, and I thoroughly enjoyed this video thanks to him :)
Mr Ham's honesty is so refreshing. Also loved what he said in the outtake lol
uncle's last sentence such a mood sia
The packaging waste is out of control these days for mooncakes, tea, etc
Agree on the landfill part
Mr Ham is very eloquent and i really love how informative he is on this trade. Very good insight!
Love Mr Ham's candidness and thoughtfulness! I remember trying those fancy mooncake with fancy ingredients and names and... I was just like you call this a mooncake haha. That being said I kinda enjoy durian mooncakes. Not so much the price though.
Bring back the tradition of carrying colourful animal lanterns as well for children. Hope to see all these cultural traditions upheld and creativity expanded upon. More light / lantern shows in the evening. In temperate climates, this festival is more significant as the weather gradually gets colder, warm lights make people feel cosier and homely.
I often asked my wife if she's buying the mooncake or the packaging. I'm all for traditional mooncake. Thumbs up to Mr. Ham for his honest views.
As a Vietnamese, I could recommend you to buy mooncake from old-school bakeries. If Singapore have Tai Chong Kok, then we have Bảo Phương, Bà Dần in Hanoi, Đông Phương in Haiphong and Như Lan, Nam Việt and Phương Diêm Thuận in HCMC.
Aside, these snowskin mooncake have been a part of Vietnamese traditional mooncake since unknown time, and they are bloody good lol
As a Malay Muslim I really look forward to mooncake festival! I love mooncakes so much! Big thanks to those vendors for making it halal !!
Sorry to tell you Mid-autumn festival was on Saturday last week.
really? i thought it is mostly a chinese thing. as a chinese myself, i find mooncake too sweet and fattening
@@Aurica34 well they probably live in an area with a huge chinese population
My hubs (in his 30s, not born in the 30s) loveeees tai chong kok's mooncakes and he stands firmly by them. Every year without fail before we married, he would buy them for my parents and he certainly agrees it has the most simple packaging but yet still it has the best taste! Mr Ham can keep the same paper packaging, just maybe get a designer to draw cuter images la!
Traditional mooncakes are still the best. True we don't need to waste too much money on nice packaging.
I like Tin boxes, can recycle to store things.
The designs usually very gaudy, won’t look nice with the color scheme of my house. Ppl gift me mooncakes & I throw away the tin box below my house. I also give away the mooncakes cos I don’t have a sweet tooth.
@@ABC-ed8cg and they last decades. You know how green it is that something never spoils.
Hes so insightful and real. I love listening to what he had to say
Change it to Why are Chinese obsess with mooncakes
Those days they had simple packaging with white papers wrapping around the mooncakes. We only bought those with boxes for our relatives. By the way, super long queue at Tai Chong Kok back then.
I think it’s important to acknowledge the origin of mooncake / 月饼and moon festivals/ mid autumn festivals / 中秋节which can be traced all the way back to ancient times in mainland china( with archaeological evidences and literature document). Those beautiful traditions accompanies by poetries (水调歌头),songs and dances are brought to many parts of the world by Chinese immigrant such as Singaporeans .
Although due to the CCP mainstream western English speaking media or YT is willing to celebrate or mention much of it. It’s such a shame culture has to be ties with politics.
Out of these snow skin mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes & jelly mooncakes, I still prefer the traditional mooncake more 😊 It gives me the good old memories.
I dont need fancy box! I want affordable tasty mooncakes!!!
Becuz people make new kinds of mooncake until it doesn't look and taste like one.
Traditional mooncake are the best. I'm 25 and knows my food
But u dunno what’s healthy food. Mooncake is just processed food with lots of refined sugar.
I won’t even classify it as food.
They are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate. And it has become so commercialized that ppl have to gift mooncakes to show their partnership.
If I receive them as gifts, I’ll usually leave the mooncakes below my house in their original packaging or give them away to other ppl.
@@ABC-ed8cg It's not lame products. I enjoy this festivals a lot. Problem with society is Singaporean trying to come up with new creative stuff that diverts from tradition. Such as rice dumpling, now people use different leaves and fillings to make it. No sense
nothing wrong with varieties to keep the holiday alive and interesting...if it's the same thing year over year it's gonna get boring/repetitive and ppl will soon lose interest in it...
@@cjyoung4080 sure. Your own opinion
Ice skin moon cakes are older than you.
It's tradition. It's something dear and close to our hearts.
call me an oldie but I love the traditional mooncakes especially the white lotus paste one. I wish I found out about Tai Chong Kok. I would have ordered from them instead.... oh there is always next year.
They sell moon cakes all year round. Now that the Mooncake Festival is over, you can get their ware at cheaper prices too. You’re welcome!
Tai chong kok is the OG
I’d never heard of a moon cake until this video. Never been to anywhere in Asia yet sadly.
But I want an entire tv series with Mr Ham in his moon cake shop like with the UK Chicken Shop series.
What an irreverent character! He’s naturally and effortlessly hilarious, charismatic, but wise.
I would listen to him all day!
Mooncakes look amazing, but taste like unsweetened bread, hardboiled egg yoke, and bean paste. Almost every American that tries one for the first time is disappointed because they assume it will be dessert-like and they are not.
America also dont have sesame paste and sweet yam as dessert.
Mr. Han has the true spirit of the craftsman and artisan.
I'm a foreigner but live in one of the many North American city with strong a Chinese diaspora community and I love regular moon cakes so so much. Every year I get excited for Mid-Autumn Festival when the Asian grocery stores all start carrying mooncakes so I can pick them up anywhere instead of going to the specific chain of bakeries that carry just the lotus or red bean ones year round. The only novelty one I've tried had pineapple filling and I was so disappointed! It tasted and more importantly FELT completely different from the hearty seed or bean paste I'm used to, it was basically a completely different treat, more like a fig newton or something, not worth it! Mid-Autumn Festival is a special time and I don't mind traditions evolving, as long as they don't fully displace wonderful, original creations like "plain" mooncakes. I had a hell of a time trying to find some with salted egg yolk for my British husband to try, as they've been selling out since the shelf space is limited and the novelty mooncakes take up more and more space every year, and he agrees with me and Mr. Ham, salty, sweet, bitter, it's all there and it's the best!
Mr. Ham made my day; he was so much fun to listen to.
No worries white lotus mooncake is still very tasty. Though my fav is shifting to durian.
Because the national flag has a lotus skin mooncake 🌙 that has a huge bite taken out of it on a rating of five stars... ⭐️
Everytime i see those packaging, i would think about how much rubbish will be added to landfills.
even dumplings are expensive during dragon boat festival, so you think mooncakes still cheap?
Me who has never had a single mooncake: "Hmm this looks interesting. I will watch it."
I am glad in Malaysia more and more brands are making halal mooncakes and yes they come in so many nice flavours!
I buy the $2-$3 for 5 type. Made in Malaysia. No egg yoke , just lotus seed paste or red bean paste. I see the supermarket another type 1 for $3-$4 , ok price but I've eaten too much moon cakes over the years. I like "La Pia", bigger than moon cake, flatter but diameter is bigger. This year I never buy any mooncake at all.
五彩繽紛，出神入化，從包裝到月餅都是，好高級喔！
Love the packaging, yet stressed out as no one like to eat bec of the calories :(. Need to find ways to share the dozens of yummy. An uneasy task. A blessed problem...
uncle got biceps lol
I honestly love eating lotus paste mooncakes. I dont know why but it just tastes so fucking good
[sees the title] why is everyone else Not obsessed?? They're delicious -
Packaging cost more than the ingredients
The quality of mooncake was the best in the 80s especially from the brand liu fa ji.A box of 4 lotus paste mooncakes cost only $7.6 in 1986.(cheap and good).No point paying through the nose for mooncakes.I rather èat ntuc brand 2 liter chochalate icecream selling for $6.5 a tub.
If you are Singaporean, you should really be asking "Why are Singaporean obsessed with Whiteman's Christmas and santa clause" Banana Singaporean questioning their own cultural traditions with dismissal air totally piss me off.
It was a fair question given the sheer price of some of them. What makes people spend so much on a cake that they rarely would do outside of mid-autumn festival?
Yeah I was there and saw all this stuff for Halloween that made no sense at all, Halloween is a pagan religious holiday from Anglo Europe celebrating sprits and witchcraft... What the hell is Chinese doing celebrating that nonsense
I am convinced a sizeable proportion of mooncake sales are bought as unwanted personal/corporate gifts
I just have bad experience with the mooncake I've bought, its was spoil and the response from the seller was unsatisfied, where can I make a complaint and get the mooncake tested
Tradition being a fluid thing is a really interesting concept. Although, in countries like Italy, food traditions are really fucking hard to die because they are supported by citizens of that country.
Whereas the weakness of this mooncakes situation seems to be that Singaporean, on par of some other Asian populations, are quite fixated on trying the next new thing easily forgetting about the past.
Showing off on social media also doesn't help the traditional products that are seen as obvious and uninteresting.
I believe a cultural campaign to give importance to traditional food (and not only) is really needed.
People are bored of eating the same old massive chunk of lotus seed puree with a big salty egg yolk. some people probably don't even like the traditional moon cake in the first place. Ice skin moon cakes are older than all zoomer already, it will be part of the tradition in the future
why not, they're awesome
Still like the Traditional mooncakes. But most Traditional mooncakes now doesn't has that "Unhealthy" "Traditional" taste already. 🙄 And the price ....
I would love to try traditional mooncakes, they seem to be a lot more interesting than those mochi looking ones.
The taste of the product is more important, than the packaging, I think. No matter how good they look like, if they don't taste good, there would be no returning customers.
It's now $80+ for a mooncake box without egg yolk... it's inflation all right
Preying on the weak ego of wealthy Chinese - vanity and show off.
@@tangt4860 I like the traditional type from Hong Kong like Wing Wah or Lei Garden. It comes chock full of ingredients no frills box plus smooth lotus paste without a lot of grease or sugar to cover up ...
Having said, at least we're celebrating Chinese tradition here.
@@mpc5584 those are quite factory stuff brands. Never touched them even though they get shipped over to Singapore as the factory may just be situated in Shenzhen or some funny town in China. BTW just discovered Dreyers ice cream sold in NTUC comes from err HK.
@@tangt4860 hah. Lei Garden is good better than Shang, Hua Ting, on par with Ritz Carlton. Will be keen to know what you think are the good ones in HK. :)). Miss 老婆饼 and 鸡蛋仔 happy belated mid autumns!!
Have you tried making ur own??? Could be an amazing activity for u and ur family
Commercialism destroys tradition and culture.
Mooncake is not my cup of tea. Besides it is totally overpriced. There is no reason to increase price every year by 10 to 20%. Money is in my pocket. No way you can get it just to make the different packaging.
Mooncakes taste like cr*p. Processed food with lots of refined sugar. I wouldn’t even eat it if ppl gift it to me, let alone fork out my own $. Ppl have bought me expensive ones in nice packaging. They don’t impress me cos I only care about real & organic food, not processed food with no substance.
I’ll leave the mooncakes below my house in the original packaging so less discerning folks would take them lol
@@ABC-ed8cg I bet the mooncake taste a lot better than the Whiteman's behind you so love.
Why are Singaporeans obsessed with mooncakes?
Aiyah, anything that can go into their mouths they'll be obsessed-lah. Then whatever comes out will obviously be compressed. Disrupt their supply chain and they'll be depressed.
this guy is so cool
All of these beautiful traditions from so many parts of the World, food, dances, music and so on...
It doesn't matter if you're Muslim, Chinese, living by the sea or bad at playing the guitar, I believe that if you come from an ancient country with a deep culture, as long as it's not violent, we should always make an effort to keep traditions alive and, if possible, to let foreign travellers enjoy them.
Let's have fun all together and try to solve the problems of this world instead of creating more for the benefit of a bunch of ultrarich ugly individuals.
Just like diamonds, these are is another scam
Mooncakes are cute to look at least. =D
Idk me Malay also same but halal one lah and also inside cokkies and cream lah
Teach your children - when people have too much money, they do indeed become lunatics and retards of consumption, even if they are Scholars. Just this Sept alone, a Taiwan tea seller set up a stall in Singapore and almost sold out all the tea, mostly less than superior quality, marked up to more than 400% but which had been sitting on the shelves in Taipei.
What a nice man 😊
Packaging is one of the most important aspect in gifting
😋 delicious and yummy mooncakes! 😋
100% Gratitude!
Please stay traditional, sustainable and reasonably priced. Please. Thank you.
Customers care less where how who do it as long as it taste good. Times changes everything. If this item is not profitable who will do it.
Ok next year i buy traditional one
Does he sell mooncake all year round?
Who doesn’t love mooncakes?
Mr. Ham branch out in the Philippines.
Cos sinkie are carrots
Its really good tho
Commercial
Is nice but wayy expensive 😐😢
Most people just get free on jobs
Or friends give 😓. Feel worth it but not enough 🍰🍥🍥
Price too high, close to 30% more compared to last year. I only bought...1 piece instead of a box of 4. LOL.
I buy zero piece cos I don’t have a sweet tooth. And I find all these seasonal treats quite lame. Mooncakes are just overpriced cr*p, lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate.
It’s really so expensive now seriously…
wow! impressive english!
The end result still the same.
why not?
This guy is funny I like him
We are losing our true identity, isn't it? Everthing has to cater to others' whims and fancy. Those who has purchasing power dictates which direction we have to go
Clickbait title. Not everyone likes mooncakes.
Cuz people too much money. Crazy how much moon cakes cost these days
mooncakes are damn expensive
Because are very very very good :)
Expensive equal branding
Because majority of Singaporean Chinese are from the origin mainland China.. Not natives though.. So this culture related to their ancestors country CHINA.
But …. What is a moon cake to begin with ?
Downfall of traditional moon cake is they have become too expensive and so profitable. The easy money is for the picking for everyone. Being buying and eating 大中国 for decades。Plain lotus is family favourite. Stop supporting the greed from this year. Shall need to find an honest traditional maker, maybe in Malaysia to fulfill our taste butt in future..
🇸🇬💥❤️🔥🔥
Mooncakes are overpriced cr*p. Just refined sugar & lots of additives. I wouldn’t even buy it. At Hai Di Lao, they gave us a small one on the actual day. I left it at the table.
My cousin gave my mum a durian snow-skin mooncake. I only tried 1/8 of it. And that’s enough mooncake for a year.
I’m 43kg & I lead a healthy lifestyle. Many say they indulge only ‘once a year’. But those who say that also indulge in themselves too often on other stuff & their health suffers.
Of course Mr Ham would say the obvious, since he wanna emphasize the fact that established brands don’t have to waste time on packaging. Still, if you think about it, mooncakes are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate.
And it has become so commercialized that ppl have to gift mooncakes to show their partnership. Even if they gift Tai chong Kok’s mooncake, I’ll find it excessive.
My bro-in-law’s housing agent is good friends with all of us and he just helped to sell my in-laws’ house recently. He bought mooncakes for my in-laws & bro-in-law. We told him firmly we don’t want mooncakes not because we are standing on ceremony but because we don’t have sweet tooth.
man... u must be fun at parties... i mean if u want to be a pessimist and a downer u can say that about any holiday... why do ppl spend hundreds of dollars on a christmas tree to be thrown out a month later? Well if u think about it then christmas trees are just another lame product of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate....
Ok zoomer
Mooncakes are a scam.. it’s a ploy to sell you overpriced packaging.
to be more precise ,why are ' SINGPOREAN CHINESE ' obsessed with mooncakes?
i'm pretty sure majority of singaporean malays/indians don't give a damn about mooncakes.
As a singaporan chinese , i concur with this statement. I dont think Malays or Indians care so much about mooncakes which originated from China
Because we are stupid
It's not even edible.
Best Singaporean cannot find kun chai peng… the best is from Malaysia
Too rich
the fk why he use landfill and planet dying as an excuse to save on packaging design fees and packaging cost lol
There’s always a choice in increasing the prices of what he’s selling. So it really depends on his ideology.
Cos he’s lame. Mooncakes are just lame products of some fake myths that ppl continue to perpetuate. They’re also processed food with lots of refined sugar which does our health no favor.
I wouldn’t even eat it if gifted it, much less fork out my own $.
I’ve received quite a few. It’s rude to reject gifts. But I’ll leave the mooncakes in their packaging below my house for less discerning folks to pick it up.
@@ABC-ed8cg Finally someone who speaks the facts.
Mooncakes are sugary garbage.