There seem to be a lot of experimentation with mooncakes with each passing year, yielding interesting and unusual mooncakes which departs from the austure (blase?) lotus and yolk staple.
The mooncakes for the most part requires refrigeration and stray far from the orthodox mooncake designs. I have personally taken to task the daunting act of eating these mooncakes (with the assistance of cannabis, of course).
This is a cheese mooncake with a jelly coating.
The cheese is made from Philadelphia cheese.
I was pleasantly surprised by the cheese mooncake - it tastes amazing!
The cheese mooncake comes in a twin pack with a chocolate mooncake as its mate.
The chocolate mooncake is also jelly coated and contains a chocolate base.
It's delicious as well, but I would choose the cheese mooncake for its unusual implementation. It's a good combination pack though - cheese and chocolate.
The next mooncake is the chilled "snow skin" mooncake with dragon fruit filling. The snow skin has hints of dragon fruit and the base is made with dragon fruit paste. There are visible manifestations of dragon fruit in this mooncake - the unique seeds can be seen in the paste.
The snow skin dragonfruit mooncake tastes explosive, leaving a unique and pleasant tingly aftertaste akin to mint.
There is also a jelly variant of the dragon fruit mooncake...the striking red color dissuades the palate at first...
...but the taste is something else altogether. It's very nicely done. Dragon fruit mooncakes tastes good; it's hard to go wrong with this marvelous fruit.
The next mooncake that was recommended to me is the green bean paste mooncake with jelly. I didn't expect much from this but the proprietor swore on his mother's grave (well, he didn't exactly use those words, but he was definitely raving about it) that it's some seriously good shit.
He wasn't kidding...the green bean paste tastes like custard! It also leaves a tantalizing aftertaste. It doesn't taste like what I expected it too - the tangible custard features makes this mooncake a winner.
It also seems that mooncake manufacturers are coming out with unorthodox designs this year - this is a pig and a rabbit shaped mooncake.
