For the traditionalists and modernists alike, here’s a roundup of the best mooncakes you can buy online ahead of this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival. You can buy mooncakes online with ease, directly from the source or from Amazon, where you’ll find a range of celebratory gift sets suited to a range of flavor preferences and price points. Nowadays, mooncake aficionados don’t need to live near a Chinese bakery to indulge in the festive pastry. Luxury hotels and popular bakeries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinatowns around the world are taking their mooncakes to a whole new level with creative flavors like durian and prawn.
While the yolk is a fixture of more traditional mooncakes along with fillings made of lotus seed and red bean paste, modern purveyors offer riffs with melty lava custard at the center or featuring pastry with a flaky rather than dense texture. My grandmother confesses to me that as a child, the egg yolk center was the only part of the Chinese mooncake she liked, and she’d excavate it from the rest of the dessert to eat it on its own. (That’s September 10 in 2022.) The delicate dessert, which comes in shapes both round and square, is said to honor the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e.
The molded pastry is the centerpiece of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which annually falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The mooncake-tender dough encasing a sweet or savory filling, often carrying at its center a salted duck egg as round and golden as a harvest moon-is no exception. In Chinese tradition, food is often imbued with spiritual meaning, promising good fortune upon consumption.
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