Mooncakes from Asian countries

Korean Sonpie Yong

Songpyeon is a South Korean and North Korean cake and is often eaten at the Prime Minister’s Festival in Central. The cake is semicircular and is made with rice flour, stuffed sesame seeds, red beans, green beans or chestnuts. After shaping, the steamer’s breadworker is beneath the pine needles and tastes pure. Songpyeon is used to worship ancestors.

image: Korea.net

Each region has a variety of ways to manufacture and baking the ingredients, but all harvested using new cereals and thank their ancestors for their bumper crops.

According to the legend, the girl who makes the most beautiful sompeon meets a handsome and clever man. Therefore, at the Chusek Festival, the girls will make cakes together and vote to see who will make the most beautiful cakes with fun laughs. Today, this cake is often made by the whole family of all generations.

image: Korea.net

Japan, Japan

Dango is the common name for cakes made from rice flour (mochiko), which is very similar to tea (a type of shoe cake like an iron kettle) and is often used in tea. There are many types of dango, each one being used in each season. At the middle Prime Minister’s Festival, Japanese people often eat tsukimidango. “Tsukimi” means “seeing the moon.” Tsukimi Dango comes in a variety of shapes depending on the customs of each region, but the most common is still the yen.

image:Mochimama

The tsunami dango cakes at the Medium to Automatic Mosis Festival are often pornographic graphic, with some top cakes yellow on wooden shelves that can symbolize the moon. Usually, there are 15 cakes on the tray, symbolizing the day of the full moon or a symbol of 12 months of 12 months.

After the presentation is complete, the plates will be placed on the pouch. Where there is a window, the moon is the clearest.

image: Newscast

Hopia, Philippines

Philippine moon cakes are simple, not colorful, not patterned pieces. The filling is usually green beans, red beans, pork, or purple sweet potatoes. Unique cake with many layers and brittle dough parts.

image: Dampunk

The Philippines’ Mid-Prime Minister’s Festival is communicated and organized by the Chinese community. Take this opportunity, Chinese often make cakes and share them with friends and neighbors. Hopia, born from Fujian Province in China, is a gift for prosperity and luck.

image: The unlikely baker

Chinese Members’ Mooncake

In China, Chinese festivals, or mid-term, New Year’s holidays, before the Middle-Automatic Japan Festival, everyone returned to reunite with their grandparents, parents, meals. The name “Union Member” meant cakes for the whole family to enjoy the full moon every day in August.

Traditional Chinese cakes are often moon-like round and salted eggs. The cake circle symbolizes greetings. I hope that everything in each person’s life is always full and full.

image: Wikipedia

Today, Union Cakes come in a variety of fillings, including green beans, red beans, taro, green tea, roasted meat, and chasiu. The crust is often printed in a good sense, such as the talent, good fortune, virtue, and typical patterns of this country.

Mooncake manufacturing and gifting is one of the traditional Chinese characteristics. The fact that families enjoy the meaning of fascinating and solidarity together.

image: Judy

Snow leather cake, Singapore

Snow leather or crystal cakes, cold, flexible cakes, were born from China. This type of cake is made from steamed rice and is cold. After finishing, you don’t need to bake the cake like other types that you can eat right away.

image: Michelin Guide

Traditional cold, flexible cakes are usually egg yolks, lotus seeds, or red beans. Additionally, there are various types, including green bean paste, green tea, jam, strawberry, chocolate, coffee, cheese, durian, mango, and grapefruit.

image: Singapore Pan Garden

Thousands of layers, Taiwan, China

On the occasion of the mid-term Prime Minister’s Festival held in Taiwan, people give gifts as a way of love and friendship with relatives and friends, where mooncakes are popular gifts. In addition to the breads of mainland China’s union members, Taiwanese people eat other cakes with round shapes, wrapped in many layers, and are called Thousand-Level Mooncakes. This type of cake was born from Trieu Chau in China.

image:Thermomix

Thousands of layers, but the shell is very thin, covering the filling, usually a melted egg. The stitched fabric is very refined and refined when mixed with a variety of colours.

The Thousand Layer Moon Cake symbolizes a warm class life surrounded by warm and fulfilling things, and a happy class wish. This cake is popular not only in Taiwan but also in Malaysia, Singapore.

image: Singapore Pan Garden

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