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A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). [1] The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy.
The Cantonese version features a duck stuffed with eight stir-fried ingredients, including glutinous rice, diced mushrooms, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, bamboo shoots, jujubes, salted egg yolk, Jinhua ham, red beans, barley, dried lily, and peanuts. [1]
Egg yolk pastry or dànhuángsū is a traditional Taiwanese mooncake of which the filling is made of salted duck egg yolk and red bean paste. [2] [3] According to the "Baked Food Information Magazine" in August 1986, the inventor of mini mooncakes and egg yolk pastries is Chen Zengxiong, the third generation descendant of the century-old bakery "Baoquan" in Fengyuan District, Taichung.
Even so, feed companies and commercial egg farms have discovered workarounds to create a darker egg yolk without these nutrient-dense foods, Steele said. The color of an egg yolk is entirely ...
Internationally, the umami-boosting qualities of the yolk have been used to add a layer of flavor to salad and avocado toast, grated over pastas and even added to coffee.
The yolk is yellow all the way through, though overcooked eggs will have a thin, harmless greyish layer while the core is the usual yellow. The flavor depends on the tea (type and strength) and variety of spices used. Five-spice powder adds a savory, slightly salty tone to the egg white, and the tea brings out the yolk's flavor.
The egg white has a sharp, salty taste. The orange-red yolk is rich, fatty, and less salty. The yolk is prized and is used in Chinese mooncakes to symbolize the moon. Salted eggs can also be made from chicken eggs, though the taste and texture will be somewhat different, and the egg yolk will be less rich.
Balut was introduced to the Philippines by the Chinese in 1565 [5] or around 1885 and since then, balut has been included as a traditional part of the culture. [6] Wherever Filipinos migrated for work, a large market for balut would develop. Controversies arose as knowledge of the food spread around the Southeast Asian countries and then globally.