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September 15, 2009

Mooncake Madness !

Mooncake festival is coming soon ! So we were called by the boss Joshlim to attend Mandarin Oriental Hotel Mooncake making demonstration @ Lai Po Heen Chinese Restaurant. With me is the bloggers : Mojosh, Suetmei, Amanda Choe, Joshlim and Kimhan.

Although im not really a big fan of mooncakes, but I would still wanna know how's the procedure or doing it. For now, let the photo speaks.

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We were given all these mooncake samples by them for tasting. Awesome !

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Dim sum Chef Wong is demonstrating steps and procedure how to make a mooncake.

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Weighing the right amount of a mooncake.

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Tadaa. Damn nice got the Mandarin Oriental logo on the mooncake.

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Mojosh hands on doing his thing.

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Teaching and learning session in progress.

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Chef Holger is imported ! He is the executive Pastry chef in Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

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Me and Joshlim

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The proper technique of making a mooncake by the BEST pastry chef in Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

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1. Milk chocolate and peanut butter crunch and raspberry center
2. Mini snow skin mooncakes with durian paste
3. White chocolate mooncakes with kalamansi ganache
4. Dark chocolate mooncakes with durian ganache.

Many new flavors coming out and it has a very unique taste to it. MUST TRY ! Not like the ordinary mooncakes we usually eat.

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This are the end product freshly straight out form the oven.

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Mini dark chocolate mooncakes ! Cute.

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The 4 chefs that was in the demonstration room. Chef Holger, Chef Mok, Chef Wong and Chef Bong.

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We the bloggers who attended this mooncake demonstration. Thanks Nicole for the shot.

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WE are happy too cause we got ourselves free expensive mooncakes as well !

Thanks Mandarin Oriental Hotel, thanks Joshlim for the invites. And I've got the complete recipe how to make those mooncakes. It will be out next time when mooncake festival is near.

Anyone wanna order Mooncakes from mandarin Oriental Hotel, I got the order form with a complete listings of what they have. Let me know if you're interested !

That's all for now. Remember to follow me on twitter ! http://twitter.com/mynjayz

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[hide] Dila Ariff said...

ZOMG! CHOCOLATE MOONCAKEEEEE!

on September 15, 2009 at 9:06 PM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

ZOMG ! ya worrr u must beli ok. damn mahal wan. XD

on September 15, 2009 at 9:19 PM
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[hide] Justin Hee said...

Wow, nice experience!
wish to try it as well~ xD

on September 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

Justin, yeah man its really a great experience. being in that 5star hotel.

Go order ! lols

on September 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM
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[hide] Ken Wooi said...

wow nice..
sure you had fun making it..
i also wanna try! haha.. =D

kenwooi.com

on September 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM
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[hide] Ashleyteng said...

oh so this is the mooncake event?! so fun leh..!

on September 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

Kenwooi : yeah i ahd much fun making it !

Ashley : yeah lo ur somehow right ! im the most semangat wanna do wan.

on September 16, 2009 at 9:43 PM
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[hide] HitoMi Ng said...

Ooi, i tell you damn nice their mini mooncakes!! esp DURIAN PASTE!! LOL...i miss it...tak belanja lah the choco mooncake *herng*

on September 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
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[hide] Spicy Sharon said...

OMG. Im so jealous! VIP treatment some more! I want mooncake too! I havnt eaten mooncake for 3 years already. Damnit.

on September 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

Hitomi : not i duwan belanja u is i cant belanja. is too expensive to buy. 5 star hotel standard wei dun play play.

on September 18, 2009 at 2:41 AM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

MizzSharon : yeahh its nice to have VIp treatment. erm u should go try some. now they have a lot of new flavours of mooncakes !

on September 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM
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[hide] Pork Chop said...

so fun :D my mom make mooncake too hehe

on September 22, 2009 at 2:17 AM
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[hide] mynjayz said...

pink pork, i want to make too but kinda lazyy. XD

on September 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM
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[hide] Anonymous said...

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[hide] Anonymous said...

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on December 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM
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