Toh Yuen Mooncake Selection @ PJ Hilton

When free food come knocking on your door, you can do one of two things:

Listen to your heart and refuse, just like the days when mom would lecture to always never take sweets from a stranger.

OR

Use your hand to close your heart and take it with many thanks.

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"Come look at my biceps, came from eating all those char siew"

In any case, the invite wasn't exactly from a stranger as he has already featured somewhere in my blog as Frat Mustard aka Jek from theQguides.com. Having got to know him for the very first time when he was intoxicated by 8pm, i am quite sure that my mom wouldn't mind, would she?

Some lucky bloggers like me were invited to witness the revamped PJ Hilton. Judging from them being very tech savvy with their own website Zest PJ, no one would know their restaurants were already in business when i was a toddler.

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You must be thinking now, so where is the food?

Well that is another post because we were served some pre-meal goodies that will take the limelight for the time being.

As we get close to the Mooncake festival, Toh Yuen will be launching their range of mooncakes on September 1.

It was as if they had heard about me wonder why people are selling their mooncakes so early. Infact i ponder whether it is to cater for the wondering souls from the other world (Hungry Ghost Festival started on Thursday).

Toh Yuen thought it was not much of a point selling it too early, however we being VIPs ("Very Important Pigs") they had to obliged by baking us a preview of their range of snow skin and baked mooncakes.

The colours are meant to represent the four seasons of the year, starting from the green spring to the white winter.

Aren't they so pretty?

Green - Lotus Spring - White lotus paste with sunflower seeds
Red - Fiery Summer - Pepper flower, chicken floss, mixed nuts and a dash of dried chilli
Yellow - Autumn Fragrance - a very aromatic osmanthus flavourd custard
White - Frosty Winter - Pure vanilla beans, enough said

RM 9 per piece and it comes with a box for every 8 ordered (RM72).

Coming from a very competitive market of mooncakes, Chef Lee has come up with some rather interesting flavours that may garner alot of interest. Tastewise, summer and autumn may be harder to sell with their unique flavours. However, Spring and Winter will surely be a hit.

Classic lotus paste

Pandan Paste

We also sampled the classic baked lotus paste with single yolk (RM19) and the baked pandan paste with single yolk (RM19). I wonder is it their technique of cutting or just me when each piece has an equal bit of yolk?

Both were not overly sweet to cater to the current trend of having everything "not too sweet or in BM (kurang manis)". But hello aren't desserts meant to be sweet?

I suppose all in all, a very safe selection of mooncakes compared to the wild fashionable sibling in KL Hilton.

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Next up, the meal at Toh Yuen.