Mooncake Festival!

The Lunar Eight Month has arrived!

I'm glad. So. VERY. glad that it's finally the 8th month. Not coz of anything, but hey! No more burnings at the void decks! No more additional smoke caused by our own local people! No more dirty footprints, no more strays roaming around for leftover food!

YAY!!!

Best of all, mooncakes are here! Not that I am a fan. I don't particularly like mooncakes. In fact, there's only 2 kinds that I eat.

Yam or Durian.

The rest. Thanks by no thanks. I truly don't know how to appreciate these small round/square expensive little of whatever-sar in them things.

I've always like Crown Prince, Orh Nee (Yam) mooncakes... but after Crown Prince closed down, don't know where to get them anymore. But this year, my girlie told me it's now available from Peony Jade. The 4 chefs of Crown Prince went to them and hence, I've been on a quest to look for Peony Jade.

I finally found it at NTUC, AMK HUB.

My first box of mooncakes this year.Peony Jade - Crispy skin Orh Nee Mooncakes!

No egg yolk. (Those with egg yolks have a red dot on it)I don't know how to appreciate that golden 'moon' inside something sweet as well. And since, its meant for my own consumption, I don't need to get it with yolk. It's already sinful enough without that 'moon'.

This 4 pc of yummies just cost me $39! That's almost $10 a piece. But oh well... once a year, and I do like it. Heart pain pain buy and savor 1 box lor.

All in, I will need to get another 2 boxes of some mooncakes. Parents and parents in law. My family likes orh nee mooncakes as well but Peony Jade only has it in 4 pc... my family prefer the 8 pc kind so that they (or rather mom) can split up the box and offer it to the deities and ancestors.

I don't exactly know which kind my in laws like. The dilemma is I know FIL likes mixed nuts, but MIL is diabetic and have high BP... I try to get those low-er sugar ones for her. But 2 boxes would be too much... so, I guess, I shall just go for something that's low in sugar. After all, there's only 4 of them in the household now, if I were to get them 2 boxes, OBIL would be getting a box and I'm pretty sure PIL will also get a box, then there's like 4 boxes!

Way tooooo sinful for 2 old folks and 2 young and healthy men nevertheless!