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
Lotus seed paste
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Lotus seed paste is a Chinese dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds. It is traditionally considered a luxurious ingredient.
Mooncake
…mooncake is a round pastry, measuring about 10 cm (4 in) in diameter and 3–4 cm (1+1⁄4–1+1⁄2 in) thick, with a rich, thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste (other typical fillings include red bean paste or mixed nuts) surrounded by a thin, 2–3 mm (approximately 1/8 of an inch) crust and may contain yolks…
Mooncake with salted duck egg yolks and lotus seed paste filling.