tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8332466.post2644369169222306267..comments2023-08-08T09:38:55.103-04:00Comments on [M]etabrain[E]ntry[L]og: Ha! productivity!Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15598380941676945491noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8332466.post-9056405506056545052007-10-11T06:38:00.000-04:002007-10-11T06:38:00.000-04:00By the way: mooncakes and hopia are not the same t...By the way: mooncakes and hopia are not the same thing. Or rather, the latter is a Fookien-Filipino regional variant of the former.<BR/><BR/>Most mooncakes have a thin, tender, elaborately shaped and glazed crust and a lotus paste filling with salted eggs in the middle. They're pretty tiny - maybe 3-4 inches on each side - usually somewhat square-ish, and super-expensive.<BR/><BR/>Hopia, on the other hand, is usually mung bean paste wrapped in a flaky, more puff-pastry-ish crust. They're round, sort of flattish, and don't have ridiculous decorations on top (although the larger ones will be stamped with red ink). They can be tiny (~2in on a side) or gigantic (~13-14in across) and they're somewhat cheaper, I think, than the mooncakes most Americans are used to seeing (if they've seen mooncakes, I mean).<BR/><BR/>I used to think all mooncakes were hopia and was pretty weirded out in elementary school when I first saw conventional mooncakes. So they're not the same thing at all.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15598380941676945491noreply@blogger.com