Happy Mid Autumn Festival

Here are some of the commercial mooncakes we ate this season. This are the ones in our office. Looks like some vendors forgot about the festival? LOL...

This one from Tung Lok.



From Pine Court Chinese Restaurant.



From Bee Cheng Hiang.



The above all so so lah.
The best is the mum made by mummy, because it is not too sweet or oily. She made 'ping pi' one this year. Plus the piglets that sis and mum made. (shown the photo a few days ago).

Wishing all Happy Mid Autumn Day.

Homemade Mid-Autumn Piglet Biscuits

This is one of the many homemade mid-autumn piglet biscuits mum makes every year. Sis helped mum made it, while I helped mum eat it.

Now.... whose is the real piglet? Me!



We have a whole box, and we will be giving them to our nephews and nieces.
These have red bean paste as the fillings.

Mooncakes from : Li Bai (Sheraton) & Ritz-Carlton

Here are the other boxes that we got from vendors.

This one from Ritz Carlton.



Looks a bit dry right? Wonder vendor gave us fresh ones. haha...




The office had a favourite. We all voted this to be the best.
Sheraton's Li Bai has the one that suit our taste.





Nice box too.



The only box that we finish most of it.



Wishing all "Zhong Chiu Jie Kuai Le".

Mooncakes from : Tung Lok & Meritus Mandarin

At our workplace, we get freebies from our hardware and software vendors. Of course, when we get them, we got to declare them with management first, in case we are accuse of favouring certain companies in our future tenders. haha...

Showing here today, two boxes of mooncakes.

This is Tung Luk's mooncakes. Yes, it has all the radio DJ faces from the local radio station. Our boss insist this box taste the best. We wonder why? haha...



Here's the inside. Individually packed.




This one is from Meritus Mandarin. The rest of us, all think this one from Meritus taste the best from all the diff one we received.



By just looking at the pastry texture you can tell right?



Do you like to eat mooncakes? You like these traditional baked ones, or do you like those 'snow skin' ones?

Mooncakes and Pig baskets

What are these? These are pigs in basket. (猪笼) The cantonese calls it "jyu zai peng"

One colleague brought this to the office, so we had a 10 min break in the afternoon again when every's energy level is at the lowest. With the calorie boost, we were up again! haha..

These piglets stuff are usually available together with mooncakes. (If you have noticed in this blog, yes, the mooncake season is here again....) It is said that these piglets biscuits were created in the early days because of the leftover dough from making the mooncakes.

I guess many people are happy because of this innovative creation. Two of my colleagues love these more than mooncakes. I think I prefer mooncakes.



They are just dough, no fillings in them. Some make them dry, some more moist. It is up to your preference. While we were eating them, everyone commented on their favourites and how these stuff used to be free when you bought mooncakes. That bunch above, it cost $8.80 nowadays.



Oink oink!



A colleague who posed with the piggy to replace his head. He is one of the best brains around that deals with core Unix stuff.

Mooncake Party with Oolong Tea in the office

This afternoon, a colleague organised a tea break called "Mooncake and Oolong Tea Party" in office. No moon in the office, we only have million dollar 'Sun' servers. haha...

Anyway, despite the business, all of us took a bit of time off to enjoy some food.
The mooncake being cut. Not sure how many pieces you all usually cut, we tried to be 'si wen' a bit today, so we requested to have it cut into 8 pieces.



The inside of Marriott Hotel's White Lotus Seed Paste with Macadamia Nuts.
Some pictures of the mooncakes here too.



It was absolutely yummy. It's not sweet until you will 'jelak' kind.



Most of us were not very environmental. We used styrofoam, but some came with own mugs.



Oh yes, we used tea bags. We had tea leaves from 'Wing Wah Hong Kong', but too lazy to brew them in a pot. :-)



You all have tiny tea parties for 30 mins or so in your office?
If you got to charge the time, charge it under Team building hours. haha..
(oh yes, invite your boss too, we did)