Chaoshan moon cake is a pastry with unique flavor. Moon cake is white and moist, sweet but not greasy, sweet and refreshing. It is made with fine raw materials such as glutinous rice, white sugar, lard, sesame and sesame.
Chaoshan snacks Moon cake is a round cake made of glutinous rice flour, about 1 cm thick, available in white and red. On the front of the moon cake, various paintings such as "Chang'e flying to the moon" are painted with colorful paints. On the back, there is a red rope with both ends fixed and trapped in the moon cake. Curved, like a small boat; round, like the fifteenth moon.
When making Chaoshan Snack Mooncake, first finely grind the glutinous rice into powder, put it on a plate with white sugar and lard, steam it, and then evenly sprinkle with dots of sesame seeds on top. Then, cut the steamed moon cakes into round, square, prismatic, finger-sized strips or various other shapes, and put them into boxes or pottery bowls with various and beautiful shapes. When the moon cake is fresh, it is white in color, crystal clear like amber, fragrant and tender, fat but not greasy. Then sprinkle a few drops of sherbet on the moon cake, which is sweet and fragrant. The more you taste it, the sweeter and more refreshing it becomes.
In the Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province, when the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, housewives in various households are busy grinding glutinous rice into powder, then mixing it with white syrup and mixing it well, and then using wooden buns to make them. Press it into the recessed part. Press it firmly and knock it out, turning into pieces of moon cakes of different shapes and sizes. The mooncakes are as white as snow, just like the bright moonlight during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the beautiful patterns are intoxicating. Some animal-shaped mooncakes are even more admirable for children.
Regarding the origin of Chaoshan snack mooncakes, there is a legend circulating: At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Ming Dynasty had a great traitor. The seller sought glory, surrendered Qing Dynasty and became a high official. The traitor's mother was a very righteous person and hated her traitorous son. One day, she heard that her son was coming to take her to Beijing to enjoy the glory and wealth. She was very angry, so she put the rice, sugar, oil, etc. left at home on a small boat and took her second son to wander around. The second son was very filial. In order to please his mother, he often changed flowers and pretended to make snacks for her to eat. Over time, he invented moon cakes.
