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2010-07-26
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Attention snow mooncake lovers: Arome Bakery (like many other bakeries) are offering a special early bird promotion on their snow mooncakes, at $50 for 2 packs (2 mooncakes per pack)They have 3 lines of snow mooncakes: 1. original round-shaped ones 2. a more aesthetic bunny shaped line, with jam fillings; and 3. Slightly baked mooncakes, so the skin is not raw dough (like usual snow mooncakes). There are different flavors for all 3 lines, but the baked mooncake line only offers 2 flavors.I can't
They have 3 lines of snow mooncakes: 1. original round-shaped ones 2. a more aesthetic bunny shaped line, with jam fillings; and 3. Slightly baked mooncakes, so the skin is not raw dough (like usual snow mooncakes). There are different flavors for all 3 lines, but the baked mooncake line only offers 2 flavors.
I can't miss my chance:
1. Green tea tiramisu: In Chinese it reads green tea cheesecake, so its English name "Green tea tiramisu", I think, is for decorative purposes! The green tea powder blends into the smooth mung bean paste and is a great combination with the cream cheese filling. Would be better with more cream cheese.
2. White chocolate with corn: Surprisingly good! The natural goodness of chopped corn goes well with the usually overpoweringly sweet white chocolate...my personal favorite out of the 4 flavors I tried! (Perhaps inspired by Royce's "Corn Chocolate" (corn cracker coated in white chocolate)?)
3. Strawberry jam filled mung bean paste
Strawberry jam has an explicitly artificial strawberry flavor (think Japanese strawberry-flavored chocolate/cream cookies!), but it gets points for retaining strawberry seeds in the jam which I managed to bite into! Points for its very cute bunny shape too.
4. Adzuki bean and chestnut
I actually asked for the salesperson to give me this flavor of the baked snow mooncakes but she failed to do so. A big disappointment because I would have to go back and buy another 2 packs to try the baked snow mooncakes!! But the filling is so-so, with mostly adzuki bean paste and miniscule bits of chestnut.
Arome Bakery seems to focus on presentation (ie. bunny shaped mooncakes) and innovations (ie. baked snow mooncakes, which Maxim's, Wing Wah, Taipan and St. Honroe do not offer)and not a diverse range of flavors - they stick to conventions like green tea and black sesame, with the most adventurous being the white chocolate corn.
Also note: with the new nutritional labeling scheme, it's funny to see such explicit details of snow mooncakes and you may be delighted to know that a whole snow mooncake will be about 190-200 calories....just check the bottom of the package.
I have had snow-skin mooncakes from Taipan (in 2007), Maxim's (in 2008) and St. Honore (also 2007) but have yet to try Arome Bakery ones, so I decided to give it a try. I aspire to sample others too during the 2010 Mid Autumn Festival Season, so stay tuned for more! ;)
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