Luscious Lunar Snowskin Mooncake Gift Box
Every Mid-Autumn someone turns up with a good box of mooncakes. It may as well be you. Cut the salted egg yolk one in half and the middle bursts. Molten salted yolk, lotus paste underneath, and little bits of pumpkin seed that crunch through it. The snowskin stays cold and soft because we don't bake these. Bake a centre like that and it just sets. Six mooncakes in the box, two each of three flavours. Real lotus paste, by the way, not green bean, and everything that goes into them is halal certified. The pandan gula melaka is salted so it doesn't go sweet on you, and the matcha is left bitter with black sesame underneath. It's Pak Win's family recipe, from his great-grandparents' Cantonese restaurant, Yook Woo Hin 玉壺軒. We haven't changed it in years. The same people order it every Mid-Autumn and they'd know straight away. Keep them in the fridge, but take them out ten minutes before you serve. Straight from the cold and you miss half the flavour. Most people send more than one. There's a six-box set for RM690 — six boxes at the price of five. Parents, in-laws, the boss, and one that never leaves your own table. RM138 a box. Deliveries start 31 August. Order whenever you like and pick your date from then — free across KL, PJ and Selangor, same day if you order before 6pm. Sending it to someone? Put their address in at checkout and add a message card above.