A mooncake for everyone

Kee Wah Bakery is a chain of bakery stores in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States, founded in Hong Kong in 1938 by Wong Yip Wing (1911–1999), they are well known in Hong Kong and overseas Chinese communities for their traditional Chinese pastries and delicacies.

It is also famous in the UK because stores in Chinatown would import some and people from HK would send them over.However, in the recent years people have been getting fed up with traditional mooncakes due to health reasons and family sizes are as not big as before.

The traditional sized mooncakes would last you for days because they are quite sickly and during the mooncake season, there are so much mooncakes about that when you share it with people, the chances are that they have already had some.

Before the festival, many bakeries start selling mooncakes which attracts people to buy new and specials flavours for themselves, then nearer the festival, people will start buying mooncakes for others.

Anyway, there are so many varieties at Kee Wah, ranging from traditional to modern ones that there is a mooncake for everyone.

They have also done a joint venture with Ocean Park with panda themed mooncakes.




A donation of $5 is made to Ocean park when a box of panda mooncakes are sold.
*see leaflet for more details.


There is a promotion at the moment so that if you spend over a certain amount, you will be entitled to a gift.
**Please see the promotional leaflet instore for details.


One of the gift items is a panda bag.

Here is part of the collection from Kee Wah that I got my hands on.




My favourite had to be the traditional tin and the chocolate custard mooncake.

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Supreme assorted mooncakes:
mini lotus seed paste with mooncake with yolk
mini golden lotus seed paste mooncake with yolk
mini chinese ham mooncake with betty's XO sauce
mini Euyansang red bean paste with mandarin peel

I loved this tin box because it is smaller than the standard size which makes the mooncakes and tin loveable.


These mooncakes are mini mooncakes which taste even better because it is a better ratio of filling to the the pastry.

As well as the taste, I thought it was a great value having four different flavours in one box especially the Mini Chinese ham which is made with Betty's XO sauce and the Mini red bean paste which had mandarin peel in it.

Each mooncake had a chinese character so that you can distinguish the flavour.
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mini lotus seed paste with mooncake with yolk

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mini golden lotus seed paste mooncake with yolk

I liked the equal ratio of lotus paste, eggyolk and pastry per bite because the mini size compacts it all together.
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mini chinese ham mooncake with betty's XO sauce

This was really nice because it tastes sweet initially and then you get a spicy aftertaste.
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mini Euyansang red bean paste with mandarin peel

The mandarin peel livens the taste because the red bean paste on its own is a bit boring.
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Assorted custard mooncakes


Mini chocolate custard mooncakes

The chocolate and custard was really nice with a strong chocolate taste and hints of custard.
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Mini egg custard mooncakes

The custard was good because it was rich but not too sweet.
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As well as traditional mooncakes, Kee Wah has also launched these cute panda mooncakes.
The egg custard mooncake comes in a cute carrying tin and the assorted flavours come in an attractive bamboo tower.
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Mini panda egg custard mooncakes:



custard mooncakes:


These were buttery with a delicious creamy egg custard filling.
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Assorted Mini Panda Mookcake Gift Box

The bamboo box was really cute with a lovely ladybird on the lid.


Assorted mini panda moncakes
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2 x mini white lotus with yolk


This was smooth sweet lotus paste with savoury egg yolk and sweet pastry.
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2 x mini red bean and egg yolk

The taste of red beans and egg yolk was interesting.
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2 x mini Chinese ham mooncake


These were crammed with Chinese ham and nuts with a chewy texture and sweet taste.
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Mixed feelings at Big Jo's

The first time I tried the grilled cheese sandwich I could not get enough of it.

Came here again for the grilled cheese sandwich.



The toast was charred compared to the previous one I had.

I was a bit annoyed this time because it was a mix of two cheeses, one was evidently processed cheese because this type of cheese does not melt in the same way as normal cheese which you can see because it does not go translucent.



The taste this time was a bit bland compared to the really nice one I had on the first visit.



[The darker cheese in the photo is cheddar cheese and the brighter coloured cheese is the processed cheese]
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Big Jo's (Wan Chai)

School Food again at School Food

I love the rolls at School Food so went there again.

This time had rolls and more rolls.

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Flying fish roe mari:


It was my first time ordering this and it was and interesting mix of flying fish roe, micro cress and black sesame which gave it a nice crispy crunch with popping fish roe that gave it some saltiness.
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Squid mari:

As usual this was delicious with a piece of spring squid and spicy pickled vegetables in the middle.
Each piece was moreish.
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Spam mari:

Plain and simple with spam and pickled vegetables.
This time it was quite spicy because there was quite a fair bit of spicy pickles in it
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Photo of the restaurant:

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