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2010-10-28
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The marketing of new-style mooncakes and mid-autumn festival treats have risen so much in the last few years, my favourite still being the ones with custard fillings, and I'd take the custard ones over the traditional lotus seed and salted yolk or the nut-paste or even the chiu-chow style puff pastry types any day =P.This year, I received a box of 'Oneness Cookies', which came from the Chinese restaurant at Kowloon Shangri-La, and to say the least I was really quite disappointed with the quality
This year, I received a box of 'Oneness Cookies', which came from the Chinese restaurant at Kowloon Shangri-La, and to say the least I was really quite disappointed with the quality of the cookies.
Now cookies typically come in two types, either with a biscuit-like crunch (i.e. hard, think Famous Amos bite-sized) or doughy/chewy (i.e. soft, think Mrs. Fields). Hard cookies take on their texture because of a longer time in the oven or the fact that is much thinner and therefore crisps much easier in the oven, so to protect its texture, it must be stored in an air-tight container between the moment it gets cooled/assembled and consumption. I say this, because it is relevant to why these oneness cookies were a failure for me (and the persons whom I shared these cookies with).
The sandwich-cookies were packed individually - visually appealing, but the plastic wraps were not sealed, and simply taped- not airtight!!
There were two types of sandwich cookies...
lotus cookies which had a pale/translucent yellow colour..
red bean cookies which its filling was very thick in consistency, and not very sweet like you'd expect adzuki paste to be.
The cookies were all made from the same cocoa cookie dough, so they were chocolate-based, but this only paired okay with the lotus seed, a disaster with the red bean filling. The cookies were also soft, had none of that crunch or hard-ness you expect from cut-out cookies, very disappointing. And yes the high cocoa content meant the cookie was not at all sweet....only a hint, which is not what I expected from a cookie - they are meant to be sweet! Possibly more than dessert, because of their typical serving sizes....
Thus I was really disappointed and don't understand how they were for sale at almost HK$400?!?
张贴
