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 [...]

When we were young, we were not well off, yet mom always baked jam tarts and distribute to neighbors, colleagues, friends and relatives.  You may decide to bake your own cookies for the upcoming festive season for distribution instead of buying (where you can never be sure of the taste and it may not be [...]

If you live around Kuala Lumpur area and wish to purchase ingredients to make mooncake, you can try going to a shop called Chai Huat Hin which is located at Jalan Tun H.S Lee (in Chinatown KL area). This is the shop that I have mentioned in my previous articles where my mom used to [...]

If you require a large amount of fresh eggs, then it makes sense to buy from a wholesale supplier rather than from normal retail outlets. Those who need to use eggs a lot are those who are in the business of cake baking and selling mixed rice dishes. Update: I have been informed by a [...]

Mooncake business is now a very lucrative business for many business owners. For once a year, bakeries, hotels and restaurant chains would be selling their own mooncakes with the price increasing gradually each year. Previously, my mom would make mooncakes at home and distribute them to her friends, neighbors, friends and relatives. Of course, it [...]

Update September 2017:  Yeah! I finally managed to locate a shop in Petaling Street that are selling the wooden mooncake moulds. View the article in this link: Shop selling wooden mooncake and ang ku moulds in Petaling Street Update in August 2017- I have went around to try to look for wooden molds for mooncake baking [...]

Each time before a major festival comes up, lots of people would be busy doing baking. In Klang Valley (around Selangor and Kuala Lumpur), many people would get their banking supplies from Bake with Yen. The price of items is not very cheap but at least it is cheaper than you buy from most grocery [...]

For those who are interested to attend cake decorative classes around Selangor/ Klang Valley, the Bake with Yen, a baking supply store constantly have cake, bread, muffin and cupcake making/ decorating classes. Here is a class that will be held on 2 to 4 April 2011 for RM1800. It is a 3 full day (9am to 5pm) [...]

We usually bought our baking supplies- flour, cookies and cake mixes, nuts, raisins, baking utensils from Bake With Yen- a baking supplier store with branches in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya. As a spinoff from selling banking supplies, they also offer various baking and cake decorating classes at a much more reasonable price compared to those offered by [...]