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Moon cake was originated in China along with its auspicious meaning. Hence, mooncake is typically given in festivals to pass kind intentions to receivers. Additionally, mooncake symbolizes unity as families are gathered during the festivals and have mooncakes together. Such festivals include Chinese New Year, Qing Ming Festival, Chinese Ghost Festival, and Moon Festival. Mooncake is a kind of pastry made from wheat with variety of fillings, such as green bean, sweet bean, squash, taro, and black sesame seeds. They might also be decorated with toppings before being baked or grilled.
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Ueng Mui Seng
Ueng Mui Seng
Ueng Mui Seng is a mooncake shop with a long history in Bang Khla Subdistrict. Generations after generations, the shop has been offering traditional mooncakes for over 100 years. Apart from mooncakes, steamed buns and other pastry and desserts, which are suitable to be souvenirs, are also available. Ueng Mui Seng mainly supplies large traditional mooncakes with red letters stamped on them. The shop offers various sizes and choices of fillings like, salted bean and squash with salted eggs. The mooncakes are sold in red boxes. These mooncakes are made from original Teochew recipe making the layer crusts very soft and thin, and stuffed with good amount of fillings. Importantly, the place also supplies Hokkien mooncakes, which are very rare. Moreover, there are other Chinese desserts such as festival pastries, snow skin mooncakes, Chinese roll cakes, and deserts for moon festivals. Another star product of the shop is steamed buns.
Tang Seng Jua
Tang Seng Jua
Tang Seng Jua is a famous souvenir shop of Bang Khla District. It is very well-known as it has been in business for over 80 years. Tang Seng Jua is known for its mooncakes and their stable standard quality. From a traditional size mooncake, the shop has developed a little mooncake as well as other types of pastries in the same line, namely, variety of products under A-mei’s brand.