Gifts of mooncakes are treasured favors we bestow on friends, families and business associates every year.
For 2016, if you are game to try something different, and if you wish to present your loved ones and clients something to remember, these mooncakes are just perfect!
In continuation from our scrumptious dinner, beautiful and colorful mooncakes made its appearance and suddenly, I was hungry again.
On Monday I walked into Sheraton Imperial for a meeting and the mooncake display in front of Toastina had meĀ grinded to a halt and did a double take.
“Wait a minute, since when Sheraton Imperial offers mooncakes?”
Upping my game from the annual Malaysian mooncakes research, I will be focusing on the mooncake varieties from the Lion City – Singapore this year!
And just for Conrad, I’ll be offering complimentary (yes, no charges) hand-carry service from SG to KL.
Just because I love Conrad that much. š
So, have you done all the prerequisite mooncake shopping and giveaways this year?
I have.
I’m all for the unique and creative flavours butĀ those usually are the snowskins. TheĀ traditional baked ones travel better, so as gifts, that would be my first consideration.
Naturally, for gifts the packaging matters too.
The Grand Millennium Kuala Lumpur is highly favourable in my list for its daily buffet at The Mill. For the price charged, it offers both quality and quantity, which I believe something that most consumers want.
It’s Chinese restaurant is well known for its delectable dim sum, which funnily enough I’ve not tried til recently.
Based on reliableĀ feedback from friendsĀ and my own tasting of a few dim sum offered for lunch on my recent visit, I’ll say the reviews were pretty spot on.
But I had to leave space to taste their mooncakes this round. And the emphasis for their repertoire yearly is the traditional.
Enjoying pork free dim sum here is a good option for those who wish to dine in zen surrounded by the greens of the Saujana area.
In fact, the Saujana is a mere 5 minutes drive from Oasis and Citta Mall. Parking at any of its resorts here is easy and between the The Club, the Saujana Golf and Country Club and the Saujana Hotel itself, several main cuisines of the world are well represented; namely European, Japanese, Asian, contemporary Asian, Italian as well as Chinese.
In fact the little known Charcoal Restaurant specialises in charcoal-grilled items (think steaks and seafood) plus a sprinkiling of delectable Peranakan cuisine.
For Cantonese fine dining, Ti Chen aims to excite with its fine dim sum, extensive Cantonese ala-carte dishes and for further stimulation to the palate, Chef Sam Lu surprises with carefully crafted creations such as the applewood chip smoked roasted duck and deep fried scallops with banana and taro paste.
I’m not entirely sure how scallops are paired with banana and taro, but I’ll try to find out soon!
For this visit, Chef prepared some dim sum to satiate our hunger while his team took the time to surprise us with an elaborate display of 8 baked mooncakes and 4 snowskin creations.
It’s that time of the year again isn’t it, when gorgeous and elaborate boxes of traditional mooncakes flood our FB feeds and makers of these round dessert try to outdo each other with innovativeĀ and sometimes eyebrow-raising flavours.
