Lazy Cook But Loves 2 Eat: White Lotus Seed Paste with 4 yolks

I received from a good friend my supply of mooncakes to celebrate Mooncake Festival. Like my fondness for hopia I definitely love the delicate taste of mooncake. There are different flavors now available in the market but I go for the classic White Lotus Seed Paste with yolks and this time the one I have eaten shown in the photo below contains four yolks and it is so divine in taste, the yolks like a good salted egg oozes with its own rich oil. For the month of September I will be blogging about the different flavors of mooncake I received as gift.

From wikepedia

The Mid-Autumn Festival (simplified Chinese: 中秋节; traditional Chinese: 中秋節), also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festivalcelebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people.^[1] A description of the festival first appeared in Rites of Zhou, a written collection of rituals of the Western Zhou Dynasty from 3,000 years ago.^[1] The celebration became popular during the early Tang Dynasty.^[1] The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox.^[1] The Government of the People's Republic of China listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritage" in 2006, and it was made a Chinese public holiday in 2008.^[1] It is also a public holiday in Taiwan.

One of the significance of moon cake is the overthrow of Mongol rule in China, the story below (source wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival )

According to a widespread folk tale (not necessarily supported by historical records), the Mid-Autumn Festival commemorates an uprising in Chinaagainst the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty (1280–1368) in the 14th century.^[6] As group gatherings were banned, it was impossible to make plans for arebellion.^[6] Noting that the Mongols did not eat mooncakes, Liu Bowen (劉伯溫) of Zhejiang Province, advisor to the Chinese rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, came up with the idea of timing the rebellion to coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival. He sought permission to distribute thousands of moon cakes to the Chinese residents in the city to bless the longevity of the Mongol emperor. Inside each cake, however, was inserted a piece of paper with the message: "Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month" (traditional Chinese: 八月十五殺韃子; simplified Chinese: 八月十五杀鞑子).^[6] On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels attacked and overthrew the government. What followed was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), under Zhu. Henceforth, the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated with moon cakes on a national level.