Mooncake
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A mooncake is a Chinese baked item traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is primarily about the harvest, while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regar
A Cantonese mooncake filled with lotus seed paste
Cut mooncake showing lotus seed paste filling around the (crumbled) egg yolk "moon"
Mooncakes with Chinese characters 金門旦黃 (jinmen danhuang), meaning the moon cake contains a single egg yolk and is made from a bakery named "Golden Gate". Mooncakes usually have the bakery name pressed on them.
Mooncakes from Malaysia
Chinese cuisine
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Chinese cuisine comprises cuisines originating from China, that varies with the country's large population and geographic diversity, as well as from Chinese people from other parts of the world. Due t
Mooncake
…Although vegetarian mooncakes may use vegetable oil, many mooncakes use lard in their recipes. Four types of mooncake crust are traditionally used in Chinese cuisine: Chewy: This crust has a reddish-brown tone and glossy sheen. It is the most common type of crust used on Cantonese-style mooncakes. It is also the…
A Quanjude cook is slicing Peking roast duck. Peking duck is eaten by rolling pieces of duck with scallion, cucumber and sweet bean sauce using steamed pancakes.
Dàzhǔ gānsī is a typical soup dish of Huaiyang cuisine. It is made of finely sliced dried tofu, chicken, ham and bamboo shoot, and the ingredients need to be braised with shrimp in chicken soup. It was highly praised by the Qianlong emperor.
Làzǐ Jī, stir-fried chicken with chili and Sichuan pepper in Sichuan style
Steamed whole perch with roe inside. Sliced ginger and spring onion is usually spread on top.