Li Bai mooncakes have been on the to-try list for quite awhile now ever since the diehards have been egging me on to try. Sheraton, like Hyatt, is hardly present at the numerous mooncake tasting fairs dotted around the whole island. Head up to their hotel lobbies for the most generous portions of samples.
Shaped like chinese literature book, the little details like green bamboo knob and the calligraphy on the inner flap makes this poetic. Not a fan of the green plastic wrappers though, a mismatch I feel.
White Lotus Paste Single Yolk ($50)
Chewy white lotus paste makes this stand out amongst the few attempted this year. Sweetness is subjective though, whilst the rest of the family found this sweet I felt it was moderate. The best of the lot this year, I say.
Li Bai
Sheraton Hotel
Shaped like chinese literature book, the little details like green bamboo knob and the calligraphy on the inner flap makes this poetic. Not a fan of the green plastic wrappers though, a mismatch I feel.
White Lotus Paste Single Yolk ($50)
Chewy white lotus paste makes this stand out amongst the few attempted this year. Sweetness is subjective though, whilst the rest of the family found this sweet I felt it was moderate. The best of the lot this year, I say.
Li Bai
Sheraton Hotel
with so many mooncakes pictures, i'm really craving for it :) haha
ReplyDeleteI do agree green packaging didn't suit for mooncakes. :)
Quite surprised they weren't at the Takashimaya fair. They were there last year but there was no samplers available for their champagne truffle.
ReplyDeleteSeems like you are a fan of the traditional baked mooncakes... Smooth lotus paste with large oily yolks... Yum...
While 2 months of indulgence is coming to an end soon and I wonder what will be the selection for next year...
Meanwhile, looking forward to the next meet-up =)
Last but not least, 中秋节快乐...
@ lorraine: ure also a fan of mooncakes???
ReplyDelete@ fen: heh, yup...have a softer spot for traditionals than snowskin cos you can taste the lotus paste better this way. That being said...quite an irony that the hotels may be buying their pastes from the same supplier!
heh me too! quite interested to knw what's up their sleeves for next yr. Till then, I'll be keeping my eye on the range of logcakes available!
yesssss, can't wait for the next meetup! Happy mid autumn too~~
Not surprising. Imagine each of the mooncake sold is hand-crafted by the hotel chefs, I think they are going to be overworked... and the price of each mooncake is going to be very expensive to cover the cost, considering how much they spent on the packaging...
ReplyDeleteHotels should give the option of purchasing mooncakes without the frills...makes disposing the box sucha hassle sometimes!
ReplyDeleteyes i am! I'm a fan of Raffles Hotel mooncakes and i do enjoy the traditional baked ones as I grew up eating those during the mid-autumn festival in the PHilippines. We don't have snow skin and other varieties.
ReplyDeletewow, I didn't know you celebrated mid-autumn in philippines! Me too, mad love raffles hotels' champagne truffle snowskin!
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