I was pleasantly surprised one day when I received in my mailbox an invitation to a moon cake tasting and tea pairing session that took place last Wednesday. The event was hosted by Yahoo! Flickr and St Regis hotel and it was a small, intimate affair with a few other bloggers and Yahoo!’s Product Manager Suzanna Low and Community Manager Michelle Lee.
The St. Regis “delegate” also made us feel welcome with the warm and pleasant personalities of Wye Leng, the Director of Marketing Communications and Lorraine, the Senior Marketing Communications Executive. Danny Chan, Manager and Wine Sommelier of Yan Ting, explained to us in great detail about the ingredients of the different mooncakes and how different teas would go better with each type.
A pity that I arrived a whole hour late due to work commitments and couldn’t take as many nice photos as I could have had I been there earlier. Nonetheless, I would direct you to the websites of SuperFineFeline, Camemberu, MilkMilk, and Food Recentrunes for much nicer pictures and a more detailed description of the mooncakes. They were a lot more diligent than I was in taking notes!!! Nonetheless, I managed to take some pictures.


The table was filled with tea cups as we sampled the different gourmet teas from Dammann Frères that Danny kept bringing our way. I liked the Soleil Vert (Green Sun) best. The PuEr tea was really good too.


I liked this one with the black sesame filling.


This traditional mooncake is the one with Chinese Ham (火腿) and nuts. It’s an acquired taste as it’s not as sweet as the ones, however I liked it.


This one’s the Almond Snow Skin with Martell Cordon Bleu Cognac Truffle and Custard Paste. Phew, that was a mouthful. However I felt that the truffle overwhelmed the custard and snow skin and didn’t quite like this one. But if you’re a fan of chocolate and alcohol, go for this.


The most expensive mooncake of them all – Almond Snow Skin With Premium Bird’s Nest and Custard Paste. Nice and light but be prepared to fork out $228 for 8 mini mooncakes.
All of us had a lovely time as we talked and laughed our way through the tasting and beyond (we adjourned to Nirai Kanai for dinner…hehe) and it was great to form new friendships with MilkMilk and Camemberu. And a huge thank you to Yahoo! Flickr and St Regis Yan Ting for hosting us!