清真笑爺 - Halal Mooncake Launching Soon!

There might have lots of mooncake brands in Hong Kong, but none offers Halal certified mooncake. There is one Halal pastry shop, namely 清真笑爺 (Lets call it Halal Shaoye for now as they do not have English name yet), opening soon in Wanchai to cater Muslim's crave for mooncakes but can't due to the use of lard, or without any prayer to Allah before slaughtering.

Halal Shaoye is founded by a wholehearted Muslim. The store is still at its preparation stage, waiting to be opened in Wanchai. I will share more details on this page once the store is opened. To offer authentic and certifies Halal food, Halal Shaoye obtains a certificate issued from the Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong to guarantee quality and properly treated Halal food.

Openrice Event - Fruity Moon Cake Tasting

As some of you might notice I stopped blogging for a while and picked back up in March this year. Since I have not been active in blogging for the past two years, I was actually surprised but elated to be invited to Openrice's Moon cake tasting event. Two years ago around the same time, I had the same invitation from Openrice for a mooncake tasting on some fun twisting flavoured mooncakes .(If you are interested, here is the link for the previous post -> Openrice Mooncakes Tasting Event | 新口味試食報告) This year, we are going to savour several fruity mooncakes offered by different brands.

This year the tasting was more interesting as we were put into test to guess what the fruit components of the mooncake are. It was not a crazy challenge, we almost guessed all the moon cakes right. The tasting was hosted at Teavers, a cafe specialised in tea making at Shau Kei Wan. Teavers arranged some tea pairing for the mooncakes, which was great to kill the mooncake's oiliness.

Mooncakes Tasting Event | 新口味試食報告

Thank you Openrice.com for the invite to join the mooncakes tasting event, so I could have the opportunity to taste different interesting mooncakes.

Creativity and Newness are always desire, particularly in Hong Kong where you can always find interesting elements everywhere at anytime. It could be in the form of a product, a painting, a window display etc. When it comes to food, creativity exist in the form of presentation, a new twist of ingredients and a merge of cultures. In today's event, we were asked to try 10 different kinds of creative mooncakes from 9 different stores, and to comment on the creativity as well as the taste of those mooncakes

The editor categorised the mooncakes into four categories, as follows.
1) 朱古力系 Chocolate - Vero Chocolate, Coco
2) 花果系 Floral - 美心, 東海堂
3) 甜品系 Dessert - 大班, 聖安娜, 榮華
4) 傳統系 Traditional - 君蘭, 鴻星
1) 朱古力系 Chocolate