I’ve been very busy the pass few days, hence no update. I didn’t even have time to use the internet -.-” And so now, the entries are queueing to be posted. For the past 20 years of my life, I’ve celebrated each and every festival with my family. Now that I’m here, there would be quite some festivals I’ll be missing out 
Like this Mid-Autumn festival, I’m sure there would be alot of lanterns and mooncakes everywhere. And so, trying to stay in with this festival, I made some mooncakes for the BBQ party on Friday.
In Malaysia, the variety of mooncakes is like HEAPS! there would be traditional ones like red bea or lotus paste, to very inovative stuffs like Whiskey truffle mooncake. Like, Whiskey + Truffle + mooncake. what a combo. For me, I did 2 types, one snow skin (which is also called ping pei in chinese - non baked) and a baked flaky crust mooncake.
Some history of this festival
this is the bird’s nest custard filling snow skin mooncake. I got the recipe from Aunty Yochana. It’s quite tedious for me as I have to go around looking for the different types of flour. Given that the huge Asian grocery stores here are quite complete, I still had some problem looking for some stuffs.
I did some minor modification to the custard filling and subsequently, oversteamed the filling. The skin was slightly too thick for my liking. Some of my friends liked it, some not of course. But yeah, this was an experience. Next time I’ll just buy ready-made red bean paste and try again. Oh well, when my fridge is not overloaded with desserts, I’ll think about making it. 
Next, would be the flaky skin type of mooncake.
Baked Sweet potato and pumpkin mooncake. Recipe here. I thought that this was awesome and the filling was quite special. The colour looks like a normal mooncake. Hehe. The sweet potato had a sweet taste to it and pumpkin had an earthy-autumny kinda feel which would suit the occasion. It’s actually quite similar to this Pandan Spiral Pastry which I made probably like early this year. I also mentioned in the post that for a nice cut of the mooncake, it should be cooled down before cutting it. Obviously I didn’t listen to myself and cut it straight away to snap some pics. That’s cause I was already rushing to go for class.
This was being cut at night. Obviously, it’s been cooled down very well and has a nice clean cut.
And for the BBQ, we had quite an amountful of food! I came back late cause I had class till 9pm. But in a way, it was good cause I ddin’t have to set up the fire. Haha. I AM always the one to start up the fire back in Malaysia when I organise any BBQ. and also, the one in charge of grilling.
We had chicken wings, spicy lamb satay, sliced pork, vietnamese sausages, fruit salad, vege salad, and … 3 types of mooncake and 2 cakes. That sounds like a dessert party more than a BBQ. Haha. Btw, that’s a tiramisu from David Jones.
What’s next ?? hrm.. Mille Feulle, Good Living Grower’s Market, Thai food, Fritters… gosh…
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