327. Mooncakes 2009

All the atriums in the shopping malls or rather whatever space you can see had been taken up to sell mooncakes. And in recent years, other than the taste of the mooncakes, the packaging also played a vital role. As much as many people still regard Da Zhong Guo's mooncakes as the most traditional ones, people are eventually giving in to the presentation of the mooncakes. The mid-autumn festival is not just about reunion. I felt from the careful choosing to buying and giving of mooncakes showed the sharing spirit.

Tomorrow is mid-autumn festival but for the past 2 weeks, I have been eating mooncakes. Lucky enough, I managed to eat mooncakes made from different hotels. But, I was more interested in their packaging.

Carlton Hotel

Carlton's walnut mooncakes were the size of scones. With the addition of the walnuts and a small amount of lotus paste filling in the mooncake made it stand out different from the others. Crunchy and yet not too dry. Mid-Autumn festival is a Chinese celebration. Appeared in an octagonal container, did Carlton Hotel get their idea from the Chinese's octagonal mirror?

St Regis Hotel

"Who stole my jewellery box" ? St Regis came out with an exquisite two-layered box for their mooncakes. It's like storing mooncakes in tingkat. The box with its gold exterior speaks of elegance and magnanimous.

Ritz Carlton Hotel
Going for the arts, Ritz Carlton Hotel presented their mooncakes with the auspicious loud red colour and a painting. Simple and yet presentable.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel

The China Club

The baked mooncakes from The China Club were pretty good. Though smaller in size, the crust was not too thin and not very oily. The China Club's packaging caught my attention the most. Everyone was fanscinated by the orange box that was made like a lomo camera, with mooncakes kept in drawers at the back and the front had a pull-out that exposed a photo. As much as DSLR is the 'one' now, the orange box kept me pretty occupied for a while. So cute. It was very well-made. The box was solid-hard and even had screws screwed at the handle. You know where was your money spent on?