What's your favorite moon cake & tea pairing?
I just had a lotus seed moon cake with some 2013 menghai 7572 ripe puer. It was a heavenly experience. What has been your best moon cake tea pairing?
Posted Sep 15, 2019, 1:19 AM UTC
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After lunch, we had 炭焙鐵觀音 charcoal Tieguanyin from Muzha木柵。When the moon came out, we had 嶤陽水仙 shuihsien from Yaoyang, aged 28 years, followed by 宋韻今茗普洱 puer (made in 2002). Mooncakes from 淘喜地 a place in Tucheng (New Taipei City) and some made by a friend.
What amazed us was that there wasn’t a typhoon.
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Went to a pairing/tasting the other night and we had:
- Coconut mooncake + bai ya qi lan (oolong)
- Mung bean mooncake + huang mei gui (oolong)
- Lotus seed mooncake + old tree red (dianhong)
- Snowskin lychee mooncake + sheng pu'er
The best tea was the huang mei gui and the best mooncake was the lychee but the best pairing was #3. The dianhong cut through the heavy lotus seed paste and balanced out the compact sweetness.
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A pairing party sounds like such a great idea!
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What a time to be alive.
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Where’d you get the cake??
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Ranch 99 market. (Asian food store chain)
I think we will be making some home made cakes next week though.
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Black tea, especially scented black tea. But I also think Matcha goes well them Moon Cakes too.
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Had some today and yesterday. I find that jasmine green pearls work really well.
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I'd like to try puer with moon cake too!
Ideally, Lao Cong Sui Xien with a complex smokey notes that hides a difficult to describe other notes.
I find the tea matches with both sweet and savory. Being able to over power food smell in general make the tea good for strong smell food.
Sounds tasty!