Planning for your upcoming full moon festival?
Planning for your upcoming full moon festival? Bakeries have begun stocking up moon cakes - including the one with egg yolk and of course double egg yolk filling. Charming!!! There are now many contemporary moon cakes like the ones with chocolate and strawberry filling, crusts made from jelly instead of the traditional pastry. My favourite is still the lotus seed! But those who do like the egg yolk filling - beware! Read on why......... Century egg is known as preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg, and millennium egg. In Mandarin, it is also known as Pidan. It is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing. Through the process, the yolk becomes a dark green, cream-like substance with a strong odor of sulphur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, tran...