(Image by Purple Cane)
For the last 25 years, Purple Cane (紫藤), Malaysia’s first tea-art house, as well as the proud owner of the nation’s first tea-cuisine restaurants and most complete tea arts centers, has been gingering up our tea-drinking scene, especially at Mid-Autumn Festival, with its tea mooncakes, the first of its kind in Malaysia.
(Image by Purple Cane)
Tea leaves — green tea, jasmine tea, black tea, pu’er tea (普洱茶), rose tea — are freshly ground to produce these novel mooncakes. The powdered tea leaves, embedded in the pastry or the filling, gently impart vivifying earthy tastes that can balance out the otherwise cloying sweetness of the mooncakes, and leave behind a trail of tea aroma on your palate.
Purple Cane’s Green-Tea Mooncake with White Lotus Paste (image by Purple Cane)
Purple Cane’s tea-infused mooncakes are made into 14 combinations of flavors. Some of the bestsellers are enrobed in a green-tea Cantonese mooncake pastry. Biting into them, you will be welcomed by the soft, chewy pastries and then the familiar smoothness and nuances of the traditional fillings, which can be made of red (azuki) beans, dates, white lotus paste, or black sesame-lotus paste. The flavors emerge layer by layer, bringing out the subtlety in taste and texture in each other.
Purple Cane’s Cantonese-Style Mooncake with Assorted Nuts, Dang Gui, and Chinese Wolfberry Filling (image by Purple Cane)
If you fancy a stronger tea flavor, Purple Cane’s equally popular Cantonese mooncakes crammed with tea-infused fillings would be your best bet. Look out for such unique flavor combinations as the wholesome pu’er-scented filling made of assorted nuts, dang gui, and Chinese wolfberries, as well as the rose tea-bamboo charcoal lotus-paste filling.
Purple Cane’s decade-old objective in promoting tea-drinking culture nationwide has been raised to a new level with its tea mooncakes. These innovative pastries are available at all Purple Cane outlets, including its tea-cuisine restaurants, this Mid-Autumn Festival, while stocks last. For the perfect accompaniment, Purple Cane’s wide array of teas fit the bill, as they can help highlight the subtle flavors in these dainty treats when properly paired.
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