Mooncake (Mid Autumn) Festival
It's that time of the year I bring my family to Takashumaya atrium to shop for mooncakes again. Abit crowded, but the kids enjoy sampling various variety of new taste mooncakes.
When we are in Taiwan markets, the sellers are usually extremely generous and forced one to sample hefty portions of their goods. Not that they are brainless to waste their products on strangers, in fact...they are extremely smart entreprenuers that convert curious passer-by into actual customers.
Normally if we have taken so much samples from them, we would feel abit guilty and buy something from them in the end...anyway most of the products we came across are rather nice and tasty...provided they do not contain seafood for me of course..hahahaha.
Back at home...I think the businessman consider fellow singaporeans as kiasu and thick skin. So to protect themselves, they either dun provide samples or the size is as big as their brain.
In Taka, I almost wanted dish out my card to buy a box of a nice looking mooncake from a brabded hotel chain. The kept their samples under the counter and when asked, the sample are so tinny wiiny and it contain only the skin flour and no fillings. They do not get my money in the end.
I buy 2 boxes from SHIZHEN, the boss handed out the freshly fried teochiew yam paste as big as size of fishball instead. the other box is snow skin yam/red bean mixture...both no yoke. The kids still love these 2 types, year after year.
Also bought 2 boxes of the newly arrive HK taipan frozen mooncakes. 1 box contains 8-mini assorted flavours for the school colleague to share during teabreak. The other box contains bird nest and is for my wife.
This year I also received 3 boxes of mooncakes as gift. 1 from cowgal - snowskin yam jelly / canberries jelly. The other from Lulu - assorted fruits flavour from intercontinental. XPY surprised me with another...tradional baked skin assorted, i think one of them is coffee...which will be 100% mine...hahahahah. Thanks very much for helping our skinny family to gain some weight.
During the teabreak mooncake tasting, it was suggested that we should have a mid autumn BBQ for staff. I took actions straight away and will be hosting the gathering this Friday. Will show you the picts soon!!!
When we are in Taiwan markets, the sellers are usually extremely generous and forced one to sample hefty portions of their goods. Not that they are brainless to waste their products on strangers, in fact...they are extremely smart entreprenuers that convert curious passer-by into actual customers.
Normally if we have taken so much samples from them, we would feel abit guilty and buy something from them in the end...anyway most of the products we came across are rather nice and tasty...provided they do not contain seafood for me of course..hahahaha.
Back at home...I think the businessman consider fellow singaporeans as kiasu and thick skin. So to protect themselves, they either dun provide samples or the size is as big as their brain.
In Taka, I almost wanted dish out my card to buy a box of a nice looking mooncake from a brabded hotel chain. The kept their samples under the counter and when asked, the sample are so tinny wiiny and it contain only the skin flour and no fillings. They do not get my money in the end.
I buy 2 boxes from SHIZHEN, the boss handed out the freshly fried teochiew yam paste as big as size of fishball instead. the other box is snow skin yam/red bean mixture...both no yoke. The kids still love these 2 types, year after year.
Also bought 2 boxes of the newly arrive HK taipan frozen mooncakes. 1 box contains 8-mini assorted flavours for the school colleague to share during teabreak. The other box contains bird nest and is for my wife.
This year I also received 3 boxes of mooncakes as gift. 1 from cowgal - snowskin yam jelly / canberries jelly. The other from Lulu - assorted fruits flavour from intercontinental. XPY surprised me with another...tradional baked skin assorted, i think one of them is coffee...which will be 100% mine...hahahahah. Thanks very much for helping our skinny family to gain some weight.
During the teabreak mooncake tasting, it was suggested that we should have a mid autumn BBQ for staff. I took actions straight away and will be hosting the gathering this Friday. Will show you the picts soon!!!
posted by 鸿图 at
1:26 PM
3 Comments:
Nxt Yr I'll buy another specially for u on top of nice mooncake for ur family - the pig in a cage mooncake for u, you muz finish it all by yourself ok!!!
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Anonymous, at Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:56:00 PM
the name list of BBQ organisers follows the MRT track, so next stop is Mr Wong's hse, whahahaha, btw havnt been to Mr Yow's before. hehehe
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Anonymous, at Friday, September 12, 2008 11:38:00 AM
hi there... here to point out some error... "ta-ka-shi-ma-ya" if is a "u" then diff pronounce le... hahaha btw this year never go there buy... cause last yr went buy too crowded till sian...
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Anonymous, at Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:45:00 PM
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