Inaugural Moon Cake Competition
The Moon Cake Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday that celebrates togetherness with loved ones with a special holiday treat, called moon cakes. This year's Moon Cake Festival is 8 September. In preparation for this holiday, the Chinese civilization and Chinese history students at the University of Auckland held the First Annual University of Auckland Moon Cake Competition and Workshop.
Top prize winners, entering an array of exquisite mooncakes, were Classic Bake House, Taiping Grocery, and Choice Bakery. Nora Yao, CLL staff member and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Auckland, served as judge. Prizes were awarded in categories of Taste, Design, and “Most Moonlike.” Students also made their own mooncakes using a variety of fillings.
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“ice-skin” mooncakes with coconut mung bean filling, made by a student.jpg
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Asian Studies assistant CC Lee, judge (and Director of the University of Auckland Confucius Institute) Nora Yao.jpg
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Chinese history students Guy Cowan, Aidan Winder-Speed, Shelley Robertson making ice-skin mooncakes with chocolate peanut butter filling.jpg
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Asian Studies staff Harumi Minagawa and Michiyo Mori.jpg
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Chinese history lecturer and event organizer Melissa Inouye, with young mooncake tasting specialist “Shooty” McMullin.jpg
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Cross section of Wing Wah (Hong Kong brand) white lotus paste mooncake with double egg yolk filling.jpg
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Locally made mooncakes by Classic Bake House in Greenlane in chestnut, pandan, and date-and-egg-yolk, and green tea flavors.jpg
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University of Auckland Chinese history students Shelley Robertson, Georgia Thomson.jpg
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Qin Mingyang, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Chinese, shaping her ice-skin dough into a smooth round .jpg
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Up close and personal with an ice-skin mooncake with red bean filling that’s about to disappear.jpg
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