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They can only be called moon cakes if they come from the lunar surface. Otherwise they are just sparkling bread.
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Starbucks has some bacon flavor ones and other weird flavors, they're actually kinda good.
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Sep 19, 2021 07:58
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you want somebody with a chem eng phd to do weird rear end food science to any mooncakes you want. the more artificial this product is the better
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Sep 19, 2021 08:53
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just checked the ones we got from work, 3200 calories in the palm-sized ones we were given
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Sep 19, 2021 09:06
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and somehow it still manages to taste like poo poo
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Sep 19, 2021 09:07
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MarcusSA posted:Not really. It seemed more brown and think like tamarind paste? The paste looks like it might be red date? Kinda reminds me of the ones we had to get for my grandma, which were filled with seeds and nuts. Man, are there like mooncake selling fairs in China? Where all the bakeries & restaurants get booths and hawk their mooncakes? We have a couple of big fairs in Singapore and (in the pre-covid times) it was a good way to sample the weird and unusual flavors. Also I found a picture of the chess mooncake box: 
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Sep 19, 2021 09:47
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mania posted:The paste looks like it might be red date? You know you might be right. I can’t put my finger on the taste but that does seem like it could be that. I’m gonna have to check the back of the box when I go back in and see if it actually says what it is.
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Sep 19, 2021 10:11
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my homie dhall posted:just checked the ones we got from work, 3200 calories in the palm-sized ones we were given for reference, that’s about how many calories are in a pound of butter
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Sep 19, 2021 14:04
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hypnophant posted:for reference, that’s about how many calories are in a pound of butter Yes but there are 4,010 calories in a pound of palm oil
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Sep 19, 2021 16:16
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I brought my neighbor a box of Cinnabun yesterday and so today they brought us a box of durian mooncake. I really feel I lost out on that transaction. My kid was pretty excited though. He's like the one person who likes mooncake.
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Sep 19, 2021 16:59
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I will do it. I will try a starbucks mooncake. edit: local one didnt know what they were 
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Sep 19, 2021 17:04
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Keep the cake just give me the Durian
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Sep 19, 2021 17:07
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Moon cake boxes are frequently elaborate and extremely solid. I have 3 in various places around my apartment for storage containers. They both look tasteful enough to blend in, and last for years.
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Sep 19, 2021 17:39
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BrainDance posted:Starbucks has some bacon flavor ones and other weird flavors, they're actually kinda good. The further away from being a real mooncake a mooncake is, the more people like them. I enjoyed some twitter post a couple weeks ago yelling at white people for making chocolate and ice cream mooncakes and how it was cultural appropriation and poo poo from some ABC dude who clearly has never been to China during Mid-Autumn Festival. One of my favorite twitter microgenres.
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Sep 19, 2021 18:00
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Atopian posted:Moon cake boxes are frequently elaborate and extremely solid. Alright, I think we have a decent mix of people from different backgrounds here. Americans often put sewing supplies in old cookie containers, leading to many disappointed curious children. Does this happen elsewhere? New bucket-list entry: travel far and wide, leaving small, attractive cookie tins full of needles and thread in conspicuous places. If you can't leave the world a better place, you may as well leave it a slightly more baffling one.
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Sep 19, 2021 18:41
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The Lone Badger posted:The purpose of mooncakes is to immediately regift them to someone else before the festival ends isn't it? that's what I always did - but it got to the point like my fifth year in china I was getting so many loving mooncakes I couldn't get rid of them fast enough. I would take a few bites of one like a week after spring festival and throw out the other 7. really the biggest scam in china The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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Sep 19, 2021 18:49
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I did keep the ones in nice boxes because atopian is correct - those boxes were tanks. get rid of the cakes, keep the box
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Sep 19, 2021 18:51
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I might prefer to find sewing supplies than mooncakes
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Sep 19, 2021 19:15
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madeintaipei posted:Alright, I think we have a decent mix of people from different backgrounds here. Absolutely happens in N. Europe. The single time I ever found cookies inside a cookie tin was old gingerbread in my grandads basement. And thats how I learned what half a decade old gingerbread tastes like.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:56
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The only mooncakes I'm eating are rear end.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:59
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https://twitter.com/karl_zha/status/1439476430858067968 https://twitter.com/langqisha/status/1439442248676954125 Quebec is so infamous for its separatism that there are entire comedy skits poking fun at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM8d5q01LOA
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Sep 19, 2021 21:39
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MyronMulch posted:The only mooncakes I'm eating are rear end. far cheaper, less calories and tastes better
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Sep 19, 2021 21:40
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Did this guy have a change of heart, or am I thinking of someone else?
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Sep 19, 2021 21:45
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Nothing says patriotism quite like participating in the wholesale destruction of your country's judicial and legislative systems so the authoritarian, unelected government of a larger neighbouring country can take over faster.
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Sep 19, 2021 21:47
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So if you gave someone in China moonpies instead of mooncakes, would they thank you or be upset? Or both???
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Sep 19, 2021 22:03
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What exactly makes a Hong Kong Patriot? Something tells me its not a love for a free and independent Hong Kong
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Sep 19, 2021 22:03
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Rinkles posted:Did this guy have a change of heart, or am I thinking of someone else? Hes parodying carl zha.
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Sep 19, 2021 22:04
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Rinkles posted:Did this guy have a change of heart, or am I thinking of someone else? Karl Zha is a shitposting account, Carl Zha is the giant shitbag.
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Sep 19, 2021 22:53
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Question for the China thread re: fowl bone shards. What's the proper etiquette for eating a chunk of duck, roughly 4x "bite size", floating in a bowl of soup, that's like 60% bone by volume? Just hold it up with your chop sticks and daintily nibble the meat off of it? I think I'd need to spend a week at chopstick boot camp to manage that without dropping it 5 times.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:15
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uk sinn fein members dont show up because they refuse to pledge alleigance to the queen lol
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Sep 19, 2021 23:23
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The Moon Monster posted:Question for the China thread re: fowl bone shards. What's the proper etiquette for eating a chunk of duck, roughly 4x "bite size", floating in a bowl of soup, that's like 60% bone by volume? Just hold it up with your chop sticks and daintily nibble the meat off of it? I think I'd need to spend a week at chopstick boot camp to manage that without dropping it 5 times. For most people yeah you just hold it with your chopsticks and eat the meat off it, you can briefly hold the piece in your mouth while you reposition them too. If you're some giant weirdo though you just have a meltdown about bones in your meat, then probably storm off to hoover up a plate of tendies.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:25
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ili posted:For most people yeah you just hold it with your chopsticks and eat the meat off it, you can briefly hold the piece in your mouth while you reposition them too. If you're some giant weirdo though you just have a meltdown about bones in your meat, then probably storm off to hoover up a plate of tendies. I'd definitely be willing to try a plate of duck tendies.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:28
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The Moon Monster posted:I'd definitely be willing to try a plate of duck tendies.  I think this idiot is confusing giant weirdos with reasonable people who don’t enjoy bone shards.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:40
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Bum the Sad posted:
I don't even mind the bone shards too much, I just like duck and want to know the proper way to eat it while only looking like kind of a dipshit rather than a turbo dipshit.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:47
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The Moon Monster posted:I'd definitely be willing to try a plate of duck tendies. I had a "why don't we eat fried duck like fried chicken?" moment a few months ago, so I got some. And then I realized why fried duck isn't as popular as fried chicken. Not as good as you'd think. It's still duck it's fine I'd just rather be eating it any other way.
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BrainDance posted:It's still duck it's fine I'd just rather be eating it any other way. One boiled duck, coming up!
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Sep 20, 2021 01:19
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BrainDance posted:I had a "why don't we eat fried duck like fried chicken?" moment a few months ago, so I got some. And then I realized why fried duck isn't as popular as fried chicken. Not as good as you'd think. Duck wings tho. Massive, tasty.
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Gotta try duck pastrami sometime
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Mala duck wings are the best.
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Bum the Sad posted:
Don't get so wound up over it mate, my 9yo can't eat meat off the bone properly either. If you're lucky sometimes the restaurants have a kids menu so you can order nuggies instead of stressing  .
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