Back to Mooncake Festival Main page Below are photos taken during the mooncake fair held in 1 Utama. I find the mooncake boxes design to be creative and inspiring hence would always request to have photos taken so that I can share it here. I’ve compiled the photos taken in a video: Part of …
Back to Mooncake Main Page Mooncakes are well loved by all races in Malaysia. The sale of mooncakes would start about 2 months before moocake festival. As the festival nears, malls would have roadshows of mooncake sales. This video contains photos of mooncake festival sales and celebrations in Malaysia that I had previously taken. Audio …
Mooncake Festival is celebrated by the Chinese community. It is customary for the younger generation to buy and distribute mooncakes to elders and relatives about few weeks prior to the actual date (which falls on the 8th month and 15th day of the Chinese lunar calendar each year). On that day itself, some families would …
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Lavender Bakery sells mainly bread, cakes, pastries and cookies. Around mooncake festival, they also sell mooncakes. Their mooncake may be a little on the expensive side but is delicious. Most of their bakeries are located in shopping complexes such as One Utama and Mid Valley. Their pricing is not the cheapest but their bread and …
It is now in July and sales of mooncakes have started (even before the Hungry Ghost month in the 7th Chinese lunar calendar have started). Mooncakes are getting more pricier by each year. If you know how to make your own mooncakes, you really save a lot of money because mooncakes sold outside are really overpriced …
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During the last mooncake festival, I was gifted with pineapple mooncakes. I find this to be very creative because compared to traditional mooncakes, pineapple mooncakes are smaller and you do not feel too bloated after eating it due to the slightly sourish taste from the pineapple paste. The pineapple mooncake came in a simple box …
As the Mooncake Festival approaches, I am happy to discover and share new shops that sell ingredients to make mooncakes. This year, I have shared on mooncake supplies found from Bake With Yen and HOI (House of Ingredients). The newest in the addition is Benmart, a store located in Kepong. They do sell the ready …
I visited HOI (stands for House of Ingredients) which is a large bakery supplies store and find that they do sell all the supplies you need to make your own mooncakes- from the ingredients, fillings, boxes, box liners, mooncake themed paper bags, mooncake stickers (to identify the flavour) and even wooden and plastic mooncake moulds. …
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Bake with Yen sells literally all the supplies you need to make mooncakes. I was quite surprised when I visit their Taman Megah outlet and saw that they have almost all the packing and supplies required to make mooncakes (various paste flavours and the kam tui nutty): I do not know about other outlets but …
Baker Cottage have already commenced sales of their mooncakes for 2018 very easy this year. In fact, I have seen the banner below being displayed at a Baker’s Cottage outlet since few weeks ago: Early bird promotion: They are having early bird promotion but the staff was not sure when the offer will be over. …
