A coworker (who is from China) gave me a small cake, called a Mooncake. She said it's to celebrate some Chinese holiday or festival that was this past Sunday, and everyone eats them only on this day. It's about the size of a muffin and looks like just a pastry, but THANK GOD she mentioned what's inside them: a duck egg, surrounded by red beans.
Now I'm all for trying new foods, but this scares me a little. I know that some cultures eat fertilized duck eggs as a delicacy, and I don't know if my psyche could take it if I bit into beak (like they did on Fear Factor.) The ingredients on the side says "red bean paste, sugar, edible vegetable oil." Nothing about eggs, or even flour. Even if it's just a regular old duck egg, it still sounds weird tasting to me, but if an entire culture eats them, they can't be all bad, right?
So has anyone tried these? Should I be brave and bite into it? Luckily she didn't want to watch me eat it....
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Back in college I used to eat mooncakes every August (I had a friend who celebrated and brought some at the beginning of the schoolyear). The kind she brought didn't have duck eggs, or red beans. They were just sweet very eggy cookie-cakes. (She'd also bring lotus cakes and pineapple buns yum!). I really like red bean buns and I bet they would be good in a moon-cake, but I'm not so sure about the duck egg.
But hey, go for it, it's an experience-- just make sure you have something to wash it down with in case it isn't so good.
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Drew, Ive had a lot of mooncakes in my life and Ive never seen an egg in there, how wierd. The red beans arent like pinto beans either, its a sweet red bean paste and its really easy to try, not too scary! The mooncakes are beautiful too, they are usually stamped with pictures and then sometimes painted with food coloring, edible art
My favorite thing to eat with the bean paste are those seasme balls, I dont know the name of them, I would love to figure it out.. but they are gooey-ish on the inside, stuffed with the red bean paste and then rolled in seasme seeds and then deep fried!! soo sooo bad for you but yummers.
anyways, try it!!
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I have several recipes for Moon Cakes but none have eggs in them... Maybe my recipes aren't authentic and her Moon Cakes are authentic...
I would say to try it (this is coming from someone that's actually going to China next year and preparing to eat a bunch of stuff that's not in the US)
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Anyone had a Chinese Mooncake? 
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