Mooncakes: What Are They and How Are They Made
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Mooncakes are a staple of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather to celebrate the first full moon of autumn.
Traditionally, the holiday marked the beginning of the fall harvest, and today, it’s celebrated in parts of Asia like Thanksgiving, with sumptuous feasts and gift exchanges.
In China, the most common gift is the mooncake, a small, round pastry that comes in endless varieties depending on the region.
In this video, we feature some of the most common types you’ll find-and show you how they’re made.
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Producer and Host: Clarissa Wei
Videographer: Hanley Chu, Shirley Xu, Shanshan Kao
Animation: Ray Ngan
Editor and Mastering: Joel Roche
Special Thanks: Michael Fong
Music: Audio Network
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Want to try making this at home? We've got the recipe here! gt4.life/mooncakerecipe
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Want to try being more polite next time??!! The ending on Liziqi interview was SOOOOOO DISRESPECTFUL and YOU! The EDITOR!! Take the blame too for not CUT THAT WOMAN MOUTH OUT!!!
Goldthread thank you! I need moon cakes!!!!!!!!! Brb flying to China
Lard: Manteca.
Funny that "broken them down into three types" and the ice-skin mooncake is shown, but doesn't end up as one of the three types! Good vid, always love your showcase of local businesses!
i think that can be classified as one of the varieties of the cantonese style
You should try to come to Malaysia to showcase the mooncake culture here. It has evolved into art pieces and tonnes of creative flavours with various skins and filling types
There are also 'colored' moon cakes. The green one has a matcha flavour, the pink one has lychee/peach flavour and the yellowish green one has durian flavor! The fillings are filled with their respective jammed puree. Those look adorable. The Chinese people are very innovative with their food stuff. 👍🤠
Gotta call out that awesome linglong porcelain bowl you got there Clarissa. The Goldthread video on linglong porcelain was the reason why I subscribed. I'm watching this while eating from my linglong bowl. (Had these since I was a kid and never knew the story!)
I gotta get some moon cakes from that shop if I'm in HK in the autumn. She seems like a cool proprietor!
Happy mooncake month everybody!
Will C haha @ the linglong bowl. good 👁
They look good, I remember SAS Asmr eating them
hi can you do lapcheong in the future? this vids r so interesting, I can't stop watching them!
You know whats funny? I am learning about this this year in America, where for some reason nobody really knows about mooncakes and foreign tradition, but at my old school in Canada we celebrated it every year, and ate mooncakes every year. I feel like Canada is more diverse than America.
I live in Canada and have never been to America before but we have bilingual schools like the one I went to where they teach both English and Mandarin (English is mandatory). And the teachers teach us every year about the Chinese festivals and celebrate them, including the mid-autumn festival. When I was in Junior high, we all made Cantonese style mooncakes with red bean fillings.
@@shuxqer omg i luv thoseeee mooncakes especially the red bean ones and same my school gave us those in junior high
@@drewandolive5454 those are so good! I also like the ones with the egg yolks
I've never heard about moon cakes before this video,only moon pies,lol
Diversity is not something to "showoff"
Oof ... I LOVE canto moon cake !!
I hope that women and her shop are still okay in hongkong
I think that woman and her shady business should not be exist. And your sympathy is pathetic and idiotic.
@@lumpython5351 lolol Chinese bot much lolol
@@soulkeeper48 when you think all those people made comment that on the China side are bot, obviously you are living in your dream, have no idea what's the reality.
woah i wanna try making mooncake too!! would be great to go back then too
yes it would be cool, but we still have our connection to our ancestors with these traditions and that in itself is quite amazing. it’s not really like experiencing the past, but it’s more like the past is continuing...which is pretty obvious, but is more evident and real when we perform these old traditions. mere existence doesn’t connect ourselves to our ancestors, but i think keeping these traditions alive helps preserve many peoples different origins and lineages and therefore more connects people to the past
@@leafster1337 go back as in visit fam in the motherland, not as in go back in time ahahaha
I saw these in a Disney movie once, always wanted to try them.
Wendy wu 🤣
@@Lucxuriant24 YES tysm for reminding me!
What about the suzhou style with salty egg yolk? Ice mooncake from HK.
Who’s here after watching Over the Moon?
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Love the Yolk in them nerve knew it was salted egg very tasty 👅
I always thought that's what made it a moon cake but not all of them have egg in them I'm learning.
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The 2nd one doesnt come off as a mooncake in Malaysia/singapore. Thats just like pork buns. There is another moon cake which is "yue ping". No baking required and delicous as it is.
The suzhou-style is pretty much like pia (not bakpia, the Javanese version) in Indonesia such as pia gorontalo.
I mean the flaky one.
Pia is hokkian for bing （餅）in mandarin and cake in English.
@@2010XJP thanks for your information. It makes sense, since a big portion of Indonesian Chinese are Hokkian, we adopted a lot of Hokkian words into Indonesian
is this the same word as in those pia cakes people can buy. i forget the exact brand, but the one i had was manufactured in vietnam by a japanese company
@@2010XJP
Ohhhhh so that’s what that actually means! In the Philippines, we have a pastry called Hopia which is similar to the Suzhou Mooncake. Hopia has a savory filling as well but this pastry is definitely of Hokkien origin
Wonder if the first place is still open after the new security laws PRC put in place.
You are gorgeous!
The golden syrup is just inverted sugar syrup.
Clarissa is beautiful
Meat moon cake is the BEST!
Lard: Manteca. Any Latin American Market.
I mistook moon cakes for moon pies...
First :)
Crisco is lard? Maybe it's regional.
Crisco is vegetable shortening. Lard is rendered animal fat. They can be found together at the grocery store....but I’m from Texas. We use lard here. Lol
Owner looks like a moon cake
I think it is about the dragon lady
Dairy = yucky
🌕 🥮. 👍🏼 thanks for the video!
All the famous moon cake shops in HK and you had to pick one that prints political messages on top. Lol
Also you forgot the dessert moon cakes (冰皮月饼）
Er, actually different provinces have different take on moon cake type. I guess this producer is a post Mao Chinese. Another cancel culture by our communist friend.
Wow , direct your comments to the protest folks to their new address in prison.