Mooncake, a must-have Chinese dessert served at Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar when you will see the largest full moon of the year.
This year, the Fudan canteens are offering some new mooncakes, along with the traditional ones popular with generations of Chinese people from ancient to modern times. Let’s take a look!
Cherry Blossom Lava Egg Custard Mooncake
Cutting into the rosy pastry reveals the molten salted egg yolk lava of cherry blossom flavor. The sweet and savory taste reminds you of the colorful spring.
Mango Lava Egg Custard Mooncake
Inside the eye-catching green pastry are molten salted egg yolk lava and fresh diced mango. The tropical-style mooncake is another one you must try.
Milk Cheese Snow Meiniang
Bestseller of the year! This mooncake has a layer of chewy rice between the bean paste pastry and the cheese lava center. The perfect match leaves lasting agreeable fragrance in both your mouth and memory.
Lipu Taro Snow Meiniang
Taro from Lipu City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, enjoys reputation for its fresh aroma. Enrobed in the chewy pastry of purple color, the mashed taro is mixed with mellow salted egg yolk lava. Such mooncakes are nice refreshments.
Red Bean Paste Puff Pastry Mooncake
Sesame, peanuts, raisins, shelled melon seeds...the mixed nutritious nuts inside the pastry allow people to enjoy multiple flavors in one single mooncake, recalling the childhood memory of many Chinese people.
Purple Sweet Potato Paste Puff Pastry Mooncake
Layers of golden crust cannot stop the aroma of purple sweet potatoes from invading your nostrils. The inviting sweetness of purple potatoes invigorates people with a sweet tooth.
Crayfish Puff Pastry Mooncake
Crayfish can be found in many places in China during the summer harvest, when it is at its plumpest. The succulent chewy crayfish and puff pastry are a perfect choice for meat lovers.
Presented by Fudan Univeristy Media Center
Writer: Wang Mengqi
Source: Department of General Affairs
