A few weeks ago I was invited by Ollie to a mooncake sampling session at Li Yen, Ritz Carlton. The trouble about having a review session over lunch, and one that is set up more than a week in advance is that… there is a risk that I forget about them.
I was happily walking out of the office heading to lunch when my phone beep and I was reminded about the event on the day. I quickly made my way to Ritz Carlton, and of course did not have my SLR or my trusted Canon S90 with.
So you will have to be content with these photos taken with my phone under poorly lit condition.
Li Yen at Ritz Carlton, Jon & Cheng Yi
Our primary goal was to have a taste test on several types of mini mooncakes on offering here. I do like my mooncakes, and for me, a lunch consisting of pure mooncake actually sounded rather lovely. Furthermore, the session is conducted at Li Yen, a pretty posh Chinese restaurant of which I’ve tasted the food, but haven’t yet stepped foot in as yet at the time.
the glorious mini mooncakes from Ritz Carlton
We were served four types of mini mooncakes, two of which were new flavors introduced this year – the green tea with custard and salted egg in snow skin, and wasabi with lotus paste.
The wasabi mooncake is very subtle, you really need to let it swirl a little the mouth before getting the wasabi taste, I do like it. On the other hand, I like the salted egg in the green tea flavored mooncake, but not too big a fan on the custard bit, tends to be slightly too jelak I think, but not something a sip of hot tea can’t fix.
Then there’s the interesting Moët & Chandon Champagne with snow skin that has the most exquisite taste of any mooncake I’ve ever tasted. It’s like eating normal chocolates, and then having those with liquor inside, it’s definitely a different experience, and one that I received positively.
Lastly, the pink Rosé mooncake in snow skin too offers the experience as the name suggest, a hint of the flavor of rose that is unique to your typical mooncake tastes.
dimsum for lunch – spring roll, har kau, siu mai
As I stuffed my stomach at least 70% full of mooncakes, they brought in dimsum and some other dishes as a supplement for lunch, and how could I deny?
The spring rolls and prawn rolls gave a welcoming change of taste from those sweet mooncakes, then the har kau and siu mai were as good as any out there. Li Yen is a non-halal outlet, and thus these dimsum were made with the ingredients as dimsum should.
pork buns, seafood noodle, custard buns
The pork buns and custard buns at Li Yen were really, really, awesome! At this point I was already over-full and still I couldn’t stopped myself from stuffing another serving of each of them.
As I was going to surrender, the seafood noodle arrived… I noms down all the seafood, and left the noodle pretty much intact. It was a good session, and I am going to get more mooncakes before the end of the season, yes!
The mid autumn festival falls on the 12th of September, get your mooncakes before the date, you still have a week. 😀
Read about Jon and Cheng Yi’s reviews too, and thank you Ollie for the invite.
Address:
Li Yen @ Ritz-Carlton Hotel
168 Jalan Imbi,
55100 Kuala Lumpur
GPS:Â 3.146960, 101.715406
Tel:Â 03-2141 8000
😆 better to get at last day…usually they will have fire sale will price drop
ignatio: haha so cunning 😛
how to get the slash on top of the “e” to denote rosay (rose) instead of rose (mawar)…? damn, i am craving the liyen food and mooncakes.
Fatboybakes: copy from press release. hahahaha.
Lol i don’t know why is the moet mooncake so special?
My brother bought the moet srsly only taste so so
And the “kam tui” my mom cut … srsly fail got those weird kind of smell
Kenny: Ah, but I happen to like the subtle taste of moet mooncake, something different. 😉
:((((((
Michelle: aiyoh! haha
Making me hungry…. so far new mooncake flavors I think Ritz Carlton has done a good job at creativity on the flavors.
Man! The food is making me drooling…. 😆 I want custard buns!
Anonymousmich: ya agreed! and t hat custard and pork buns, man i miss them!
wow, wasabi sounds adventurous and the moet sounds interesting.
i wei: the wasabi mooncake really isn’t strong tasting at all and suits those who aren’t accustomed to the strong taste of wasabi more, I think.
First time heard about wasabi mooncake
Nikel: something new everyday 😀
i dislike wasabi.. so dont think the wasabi mooncake is gonna taste good on my taste buds 😛
ken: hahaa guess it’s not for everyone.
wasabi mooncake? that’s hardcore… I still like the idea of durian “musang king” mooncakes like the ones in singapore. It’s really popular.
eiling: haha yah i think that one more hardcore.