Comments on: Making Mooncake with Love

By: Moon cake with Red Cook | EMAC n' Cheese

Moon cake with Red Cook | EMAC n' Cheese — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:35:09 +0000

[...] we have Moon cake every year. Kian also writes a post about his first attempt to make Moon cake, Making Mooncake with Love. He starts off with some information about different Moon cakes. I actually didn’t know [...]

By: Kian Lam Kho

Kian Lam Kho — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:47:28 +0000

The syrup is to be part of the dough ingredients. So you should combine the syrup together with all the other ingredients together to form a dough.

By: luis Warner

luis Warner — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:46:00 +0000

you list a recipe for a caramelized syrup but its not mentioned again. Is this used to dip when eating or is it incorporated in the cooking process?

By: Kian Lam Kho

Kian Lam Kho — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:19:28 +0000

Hi Michelle, You can buy salted duck eggs from Asian markets in general. In America they are mostly sold already cooked. If you have access to fresh duck eggs take a look at this earlier post on another recipe for salted duck eggs. I recommend that you only use duck egg and not chicken egg for salting. You will get different result in texture from using chicken egg.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:59:03 +0000

How do I go about making salted duck eggs? Can I use chicken eggs? Do I have to buy them from someplace? We adopted our son from China and I would LOVE to make these for him.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:59:22 +0000

Kian, wow. This is great (as is your follow-up post about different styles of mooncakes).

By: cornie

cornie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:39:08 +0000

hi kian,tks for ur reply…i’ll try again…

By: Kian

Kian — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:06:04 +0000

Cornie, Make sure you mix the baking powder and the flour thoroughly. The dough should be soft and flexible but not elastic. Do not knead the dough too long. Elastic dough will become very tough when baked. You may want to just add a little extra baking powder, or try using cake flour.

By: cornie

cornie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:52:16 +0000

hi Kian,i’ve try twice but my moon cake skin is so hard & out of shape as Eva said… & i cannt find out the reson….pls advise tks…

By: Eva

Eva — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:11:01 +0000

Also, can you suggest some filling with matcha powder?