Mooncake Festival
A traditional mooncake made of the usual lotus seed paste and an egg yolk contains almost 1,000 calories. It is quite mind-boggling.
According to the Health Promotion Board:
* A mooncake holds up to 14 teaspoons of sugar (the recommended daily dose is 10 or less).
* A mooncake has also up to 6 teaspoons of fat - half the recommended daily limit
* A 180g mooncake contains 800 calories - equivalent to three bowls of white rice, and more than 1/3 of a regular person’s daily caloric intake.
I enjoy mooncakes quite a bit. The traditional lotus seed paste ones with DOUBLE egg yolks - so how many more calories with DOUBLE egg yolk? No snowskin or chocolate mooncake crap for me. I’m quite a purist that way. And they have to be from the one and only Tai Chong Kok, the iconic bakery with a legacy of generations in Chinatown. Even they have had to evolve with the times - they now sell the snowskin crap as well. One thing that has changed for the better though, is that less sugar is used.
Health-conscious as I am, when the Mooncake Festival comes around, I need to have my mooncakes. The way I balance up my diet is the way of the wise - moderation. I ration myself to a quarter slice a day, on alternate days. That way, whatever blood in me that got clogged up by the previous quarter slice would hopefully have been cleared by my vegetable and legume lunch that day.
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