Reviewing the Leong Yin Mooncake Pastes Flavors.
Mooncake is a Chinese pastry that is usually eaten during Mid-Autumn Festival, a festival where people will gather together and celebrate the moon. Other than eating it during the festival, the mooncake is also being given as a gift to express one’s best wishes and love to the person that they give it to. Mooncakes have a lot of varieties and flavors of pastes. The base ingredients are usually the lotus seeds, added with other ingredients to make, either sweet or savory fillings flavor. Â
In this Article, we will be describing our review on one of the well known brand that produce varieties of mooncake lotus pastes, Leong Yin. Their pastes are less sweet and halal, safe to use and eaten by many.
PURE LOTUS PASTE
Ingredients : Lotus seeds, glucose, sugar, H.K peanut oil and palm oil.
Taste Review : Basic lotus paste flavor with a small hint of peanut taste. Usually people will go for this one because since it’s basic, it can’t go wrong. And it can be modified or elevated by adding melon seeds or egg yolk.
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HONEY GUI HUA PASTE
Ingredients : Lotus seeds, palm oil, Gui Hua, glucose, sugar, honey and Gui Hua essence.
Taste Review : Flowery fragrant taste. Gui Hua is also known as Osmanthus, it is a kind of flower herb and Chinese usually use it for tea since it has a lot of benefits. So, it’s sort of taste like a flower Chinese tea. If you are a fan of flowery fragrant taste or flower tea, you might like this one.
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PU ER TEA PASTE
Ingredients : Lotus seeds, Pu Er tea, Glucose, Sugar and Palm Oil.
Taste Review : Pu Er tea is a type of Chinese tea that is fermented and have a lots of benefits especially to the heart. As for the taste of the paste, it tastes exactly like a Chinese tea.
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NYONYA BROWN SUGAR PASTE
Ingredients : Lotus seeds, glucose, sugar, palm oil and brown sugar.
Taste Review : Definitely taste like a brown sugar. But not to worry, even though it has brown sugar in it, it is still less sweet.
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