It is only more than a week since Mid-Autumn Festival, and the team's Bay Area moon cake summary is also fresh!
We visited the supermarket bakery and tastedCantonese style, table top, ice crust and fresh meatFour types of moon cakes. When my colleagues from LA sent a greeting, we replied happily and painfully: "It's already eaten"; but we promised with confidence: "Of course we should continue to eat." Now, the Bay Area team members of the squad have also successfully eaten before the full moon, and the colleagues who are sympathetic to LA expressed their congratulations.
Okay, which one is the best brand and taste? Take a look at the team's evaluation ~
Traditional Cantonese moon cake
Cantonese-style moon cakes with a lot of thin fillings and good-looking bumps are familiar to everyone. In addition to our well-known moon cakes in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau, there are also many cake houses in the Bay Area that also sell moon cakes for a limited time!
Sheng Kee Bakery Cafe
Cute mini packaging with lots of flavors. The editor of phobias chose to buy the following five types with the last two glances. The literary arts of oolong, green tea, jasmine, and tea chestnut are slightly dissolved into the aroma of tea culture. Especially the jasmine flavor, the aroma of the imported tea is strong, and the little friends have expressed that they like the beautiful fragrance of jasmine tea. The traditional flavors of coconut and fresh grapefruit are not greasy, and the mooncakes for subsistence are soft, thin and feel fresh.
[Price] Mini moon cakes starting from $ 1.85, depending on taste, floating 10-20 cents
[Place of Discovery] Livelihood Bakery
East Asian Food Company Eastern Bakery
An old-style cake house in Chinatown in Sanfan. Mooncakes are famous for their homemade fresh fillings. It was said that President Clinton bought an extra box and brought it back to the White House. The double-yellow dongrong flavor highly recommended by the shop can feel the sincerity of hand-made by cutting across.Shuanghuang Dongrong together with Bingpi Bean Paste and Bingpi Lianrong tasted that everyone felt that it was slightly sweet and the ice skin was a little hard.
[Price] Shuanghuang Dongrong $ 6.10 / piece; Bingpi bean paste $ 4.45 / piece; Bingpi lotus seed $ 4.45 / piece
[Place of Discovery] Toa Foods
The AA Bakery & Cafe
The big picture is Jinhua ham flavor. After cutting, there will be scattered pieces of various nuts. Wu Ren lovers will be moved by the full of almonds and walnuts. The mini version is green tea and fragrant leaves. The fragrant leaves are more fragrant than the green tea, but both moon cakes have thicker and harder skins.
[Price] Jinhua Ham $9.50/piece; Mini Green Tea $3.25/piece; Mini Bay Leaf $3.25/piece
[Place of Discovery] Yongxing Bakery
Koi Palace
The Lei Yue Men moon cake gift box is magnificent and gorgeous, and the cake pattern is round and full. The squad tried two flavors: Classical Black Sesame Coconut Bird's Nest Moon and Classical Black Truffle Wu Renyue. The names on the tall people feel nutritious when eaten! Sending elders is more amazing, the taste is not oily and greasy, soft and sweet.
[Price] Gift Box $ 66 (7 pieces)
[Discovery] All branches in Liyumen (the stock is low), Qiaolongxuan
Qihua Supreme Moon Cake
Established in Hong Kong in 1938, the time-honored Bakery is always in the market every Mid-Autumn Festival. The team personally tested the Qihua Supreme Double Yellow Lotus Rongyue: Lotus Rong is very fragrant, sweeter, the egg yolk is oily, and the crust is thin and even.
For those who like egg yolks, Qihua's moon cakes can be up to five yellow ~
[Price] Shuanghuanghuanglianrong $ 10.3 / piece; Shuanghuang bean paste $ 9.65 / piece; Milk yellow mini moon cake $ 4 / piece
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket, Kee Wah Bakery
Tao Taoju
Tao Taoju is an old tea house built in Guangzhou in the 1880th year of Guangxu (4) in the Qing Dynasty. The team personally tested Tao Taoju's double-yellow white lotus seed: Compared with the red lotus seed made with brown sugar, the white lotus seed made with white sugar was lighter and the taste was moderate, but the egg yolk in the cake was a bit dry. In terms of price, Taotaoju's box of 16.99 is only $ XNUMX, which is a good deal.
[Price] Shuanghuangbailianrong $ 16.99 / box (4 pcs)
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Tsui Xiang Yuan
Tsui Xiang Yuan is a long-established biscuit family from Macau. I believe that many friends have eaten Tsui Xiang Yuan's almond cookies. The double-yellow white lotus moon cake skin is relatively thick, the taste of lotus flower is not mild, and the egg yolk is relatively dry.
[Price] Shuanghuangbailianrong $ 9.99 / piece
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Table moon cake
The table moon cake is a bit like a combination of Cantonese moon cakes and Soviet moon cakes: the skin is a multi-layered, crispy puff pastry, and the filling is mostly bean paste, lotus root and the like; occasionally there are also unusual flavors, such as adding brine Tabletop moon cake is representative of mung bean paste.
85°C 85C Bakery Cafe Taiwanese Pastry Mooncake
The 85 ° C gift box is light and flattering. The three flavors of Middle Eastern Po Crisp are the true love of the team this time. The crust is sprinkled with thin cheese, with egg yolks, meat floss and red bean paste inside. It is sweet and salty, fragrant but not greasy, and has a striking sense of layering at the entrance. Taro crisp, taro puree is rich in fragrant, delicate texture, no graininess. Mung bean crisp is slightly sweet and fragrant, simple and beautiful.
[Price] 14PC Gift Box $ 35 / box
[Place of Discovery] 85 ° C 85C Bakery Cafe
Snowy moon cake
Snowy mooncakes actually came to this world only in 1989. The outer skin is mainly made of glutinous rice flour. The fillings have started from the traditional lotus bean paste. At present, they are out of hand: from chocolate to matcha, from mango to durian. For desserts and ice cream, they can be wrapped in that ice skin. Despite the qualifications compared to traditional moon cakes, snowy moon cakes have quickly occupied the stomach and heart of the majority of food.
Santa Ana
The snowy moon cakes produced by Hong Kong's famous cake house Santa Ana are definitely a surprise for the team to try this time. The ice skin is extremely soft and thin, blending with the indentation,Soft wax is a bit like mochi.The unique combination of chestnuts and macadamia nuts is slightly sweet with the aroma of chestnuts and nuts.
【price】Chestnut macadamia$ 6/XNUMX
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Hong Kong Maxim's Snowy Mooncake
Maxim's Snowy Mooncake comes from Maxim's Group, Hong Kong's largest dim sum beverage company. A $ 32 box of crispy rice gift box has four flavors of strawberry crispy rice, chocolate crispy rice, dark chocolate crispy rice, and crispy mango jam, two of each kind; chocolate and mango flavors are strong, slightly sweet, refreshing and not greasy There is also crispy rice in the filling.
[Price] $ 31.99 / box (4 flavors and 8 pcs)
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket, Square Supermarket
Next, we enter the clearDurian Snowy Mooncakechapter:
Drunk Durian Durian Cake Skin Mooncake
The drunk moon cakes don't have gorgeous appearance and high-end packaging, and the price is still high, but they are still popular with fans. The reason is simple: real materials. Drunk Durian comes from a durian dessert manufacturer in Hong Kong for many years. The filling is made from Malaysian durian, which is very rare outside its origin. The team spent a lot of money (the editor remembered the pain in the heart when he took out the credit card), and tried two flavors of Maoshan King and D24.
Both Musang King and D24 are Malaysian durians and are called "Mara Durians" in Hong Kong. Why Marathi durian is so expensive, let Mr. Cai Lan, the Hong Kong food god, come to answer for you: "Durian can be roughly divided into two categories. The tree is ripe, and the ground is eaten by the Malay species. Folded from the tree, The cooked food comes from Thailand. Therefore, the latter can be exported to all parts of the world, and the Malay species should be eaten the next day after falling down, otherwise the taste will be lost and the fruit will start to ferment. "So, the durians we usually buy are mostly made in Thailand, and the mara durians are almost delicious only in the place of origin. CY, the team with the highest passion for durian, also said that in the concentrated snowy moon cakes, the quality of durian is the best.
D24 Full NameSultan King Durian, Durian is more popular in Malaysia and has a richer flavor. D24 of Drunken Durian is a light yellow crust, and the inner filling can obviously eat the taste of the original durian pulp.
Cat Mountain King DurianIn fact, there is also a code named D197, which is Malaysia's top durian. Durian has the strongest flavor and sweet aftertaste. Maoshan King Mooncake (pink) is indeed very delicate and sweet to eat.
The crust of drunk garnet is generally fluffy rather than silky, so it looks thicker, but it is not overwhelming. However, when the team tested it personally, after XNUMX minutes of thawing, there was still ice residue in the food. I don't know if it was a problem with the frozen durian itself, or whether there was a problem in production or storage.
There is also a small friendship reminder. The drunk durian flavored snowy moon cakes are relatively large, and they should be eaten as soon as possible after being cut, otherwise the dehydration will become very dry and the durian flavor will be concentrated (of course, if you like this one) Another matter).
【价格】D24（浅黄色）$34.99/一盒（4个）；猫山王（粉色）$49.99/一盒（4个）
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Emperor Chinchilla Mountain King Durian Snowy Mooncake
The crust is soft and glutinous, and the durian flavor is not very strong. The filling is not pure durian. It has been processed so that it is dense and full of milk flavor, but the flavor is already thick enough.
[Price] $ 18.99 / box (4 pieces)
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Taipan Snowy Moon Cake
Speaking of snowy moon cakes, it is necessary to mention Taipan. The earliest to launch snowy mooncakes in 1989 was Hong Kong Taipan. However, the team triedMango, matcha red beans, hazelnuts and crispy sesame seedsI have to say that the three flavors are a little disappointing: the ice skin is not tough and does not have the feeling of Q bomb; the flavor of mango filling is heavier; the matcha tea filling has the fragrance of tea and complements the red bean paste; the hazelnut is crispy and sesame, a bit like Frozen Sesame Lantern Festival, but the sesame filling is not very fragrant, the particles are relatively hard, and it feels like eating sand.
[Price] $ 35.99 / box (8 pieces)
[Place of Discovery] Dahua Supermarket
Fresh meat moon cake
Pastry fresh meat moon cake is a traditional Chinese dim sum in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The crust is layered with pastry layers made of lard. The filling is fresh pork ground meat, seasoned with soy sauce, salt, sugar and other seasonings. After baking,The crust is crispy and delicious, the filling is fragrant, and the rich and delicious gravy is exuded., Think about drooling.
The flavour of freshly baked mooncakes just released from Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be missed every year, and when I find that they can also be bought in the Bay Area, my mood is really high (even if the team has only found one for a long time).
Shanghai Fried Pan
The meat is full and elastic, and the sweetness and saltiness are moderate, but the skin is slightly thick. According to the store, the meringue has a process of frying, so it is more greasy than ordinary meringue, and it tastes more hot when it is hot.
[Price] $ 2.50 / one
【address】888 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
【phone】(408) 738-3003
[Booking] Book 3 days in advance, starting from 10
Finally, I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy moon cake!
Written by: Gracy
Photograph: Teenie
Edit: Shao Yi
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