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Continuing with a Chinese theme today, Autumn Moon Festival has started! Celebrating a number of things, from the harvest to legends as well as crafty rebellion planning, Autumn Moon festivals usually involve lots of food. Mooncakes, in particular, are enjoyed. The lotus- and bean-paste filled cakes also have egg yolks in the center, representing the moon. And T, knowing Gothamist's fondness for animals and food, gave us a mooncake shaped like a pig! We're curious about wear the egg yolk might be (the tummy?), but part of us doesn't want to cut it open, because it looks so cool in its plastic home.
Space.com on this year's early Harvest Moon.
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that is ridiculously adorable (reminds me of your post about the boars!). i love animal shaped food! where did it come from?
Yes! Tell us!
My schmoopy T got it for me - hopefully she'll reveal all soon...
ah, the things you can find in chinatown! it never ceases to amaze me. i picked up this adorable little piggy at a store on grand street, between bowery and elizabeth. now you can all have your own animal fun in the full moon.
My first moon festival will be this year.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid of new food so I will have to taste the moon cakes cautiously. I'd better find some time to go downtown.
The article cited offers a note of caution:
"the salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste." Can someone please tell if it is something truly to be wary of ... thanks.
uh, well...it's a duck egg...salted duck egg if you translate word for word. there are mooncakes without egg too.
My friend brought moon cakes into work one day, and I tried one - boy were they wretched (note: I'm very open to trying new foods). Anyway, we left them in our cafeteria, where usually ANYTHING will be eaten - edible or not. My friend was passing by the cafeteria a bit later and he noticed someone getting ready to try one of the mooncakes. Well after one bite, this guy was bent over and gagging over the trash can. An office first.
DH, you could have just had bad mooncake. Some just don't taste that good! And I admit, it is acquired, but I like it. That's why when people eat them, they eat very tiny portions.
BTW, when my mom saw the pig, she warned me not to eat it, because the mooncakes that are shaped like animals usually suffer in taste quality.
those pigs look gross, like burnt packaged pork.
They have very yummy ones at Fei Da. (canal and mott) New twists on the classic include chocolate and strawberry sans egg.
Almost as neat as the porcine cake itself is the sleek, form-fitting container it comes in. Is there any indication where this lil' piggy was made?
I grew up eating mooncakes, so I'm not sure if it's an acquired taste or not. I saw someone elsewhere compare them to Christmas fruitcakes, but honestly, I love me some mooncakes, salty egg and all. And I'll a whole one, too.
thanks for the tip "c", the chocolate ones from fei da are dope.
Doh! I want to "Fay Da" (That's how *they* spelled it) and all I saw were traditional style. We try them tonight when the whole family will be together.
my bad!