Mooncakes or yue bing are Chinese miniature bakery goods that fit into the palm of your hand. Here's a quick recipe and some ...

For instance, Chou says that Cantonese-style mooncakes often use a pastry crust and red bean paste for a sweet treat. In Taiwan (from which Chou’s family hails), mooncake crusts are light, flaky ...

Red bean paste deceivingly looks like chocolate when you cut into it because of how densely it is packed into the mooncake. Other beans are often made into paste to be used as mooncake fillings ...

As is well-known, the lunar calendar is based on the moon’s orbit around the Earth, so the 15th day of the lunar month is the day of the full moon.

Cantonese-style mooncakes are the most well-known and widely available: dense pucks with rich filling inside a thin, glossy, soft crust moulded with intricate designs. Common fillings include lotus ...

Traditionally round to mirror the shape of the moon, mooncakes are typically made with a sweet, thin pastry wrapped around lotus seed or red bean paste, often with a whole salted egg yolk in the ...