In Canada I’ve only seen the tradition mooncakes filled with lotus paste, egg and sometimes nuts. I haven’t tried that many, but would like to try them all…Please tell me what flavours I haven’t tried. Thanks.
Flavours tried;
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is that like favours for sailors?
Ouch!
That said, I can only stand the pineapple.
And even then with only the correct incantation!
:dance:
Green tea paste is my flavourite favour. Most of the others are grim.
I am eager to try rich chocolate fudge flavor mooncake thingie.
The best mooncake I ever had was one given to me in the UK by a Cantonese friend. It tasted a bit like a mince pie.
Not keen on any of the other ones I’ve had though, especially not those ultra-dry dome-shaped flaky things.
There’s red bean paste, which is my favourite. As for lotus paste, there’s white lotus paste or just regular (black) lotus paste. There are also ones they keep in the fridge which has a translucent skin. They’re called literally “ice skin” mooncakes. The interior is quite varied if you go for those types of non-traditional mooncakes.
I’m thinking that the “black jam” you’re referring to is actually black sesame, right?
There’s also green bean paste mooncakes that’s popular in Taiwan but less so elsewhere. Also more common in Taiwan than elsewhere are salty ones – ground pork and mushroom for example.
i love chocolate mooncakes. Those are the only ones I really will eat
Hakka 's leicha flavour,and Hakka’s lu dou peng.
Traditional moon cake flavours :
Red bean paste(Taiwanese flavour,or Cantonese flavour)
Red bean paste+yolk
Green bean paste or green bean paste+oil scum
pineapple flavour(it 's almost a miss flavour now)…
Different moon cake has different crust.
I like Hakka’s flavour.
But now there are many new types and flavours mooncakes.
They have no the the special flavours like traditional ones.
The ones with the egg in the middle are the devil.
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That’s okay, so was namahottie 
The “wuren” mixed nuts ones are the only ones worth eating. that may be what joe sax is referring to. i like the eggs though.
I like these ones best too. Well, I also like the ice-cream ones.
Just came back from HK where I bought mooncakes at DeliFrance. They were not only nice to look at (pretty packaging, nice shape of the cake), but their flavors were great:
-jasmine tea,
-chocolate, and
As far as the local mooncakes go: date paste and pine nuts are a good combo in my opinion, not too sweet, not too rich. Another cool one, if you don’t mind eating 400 cals in 1 minute: curry porc… Weird by soooo yummy!!! (Depends on the bakery of course).
Traditional ear wax variety, and no recourse to fluids to wash 'em down.
HG
oh why oh why dont they have chocolate mooncakes (or any mooncakes ) here in the Bay Area??
Cant even find em down at the Asian super. Maybe gotta make a trek to china town.
Somebody bring me a IMEI choco mooncake !!!
Wuren/mixed-nut mooncakes are the work of Satan. 
Try and seek out some salty mooncakes, like this Shanghai style minced pork mooncake:
My wife called just now and told me to give monkeys to everyone in my department.
“Monkeys,” I asked.
“Monnnnkeys,” she replied.
“Why would I give monkeys to. . . ohh, moon cakes.”
I seriously didn’t know why she was talking to me about monkeys. Anyway, now she’s pissed that I can’t hear her properly.
Turns out she was referring to the big box of moon cakes some law firm sent to me in our office. I had planned to bring them home to hoard with family, but my wife insisted I share them with my coworkers.
Good thing I listened to her, cuz they taste like crap. Every damned one of them is earwax flavor with egg yolk in the middle, some salty earwax with egg, some spicy earwax with egg, but all crap.
Strange, too, because the box is soooo beautiful (I’m bringing that home anyway) and even the mooncakes are very beautiful. One would think after 5,000 years they would have figured out that they taste like crap and would have altered the recipe. :s
I should note, too, that I eat everything local and like it – intestines, ears, stinky tofu, pig blood/rice cakes, etc. – but mooncakes are simply crap.
Imei chocolate mooncakes. The only ones I will eat.
Mooncakes are like fruitcakes.
No one really likes them but they still pass them around during the holidays…