This is the Casahana Elegance 2F, containing of the trendiest mooncakes.
Each tin contained the Violet Harmony (left) and Brown Sugar Tea au Lait (right) mooncakes.
Violet Harmony
The Violet Harmony has a floral pattern on top and consisted of taro flavoured lotus paste with a centre of sweet potato surrounding mochi.
The mooncake has an aroma that recalled the taro bread from Asian bakeries. Upon tasting, each ingredient yield it’s individual and distinctive taste. The taro in the lotus paste is smooth with a bright taro flavour and a clear and balanced sweetness, while the sweet potato adds a more prominent and earthy sweetness with a slightly grainier consistency than the smoothness of the taro. The mochi centre is soft and chewy and sticky with its signature glutinous rice flour flavour. The shift in textures is more subtle than the addition of a crunch from say, melon seeds, but works well. Fans of taro and sweet potato would enjoy this mooncake immensely.
Brown Sugar Au Lait
The Brown Sugar Au Lait has the cutest picture of two rabbits on a cup of bubble tea and consisted of lotus paste with a centre containing tapioca pearls in brown sugar.
The mooncake has a prominent sweet aroma of brown sugar, similar to the brown sugar pearls in bubble tea that inspired its creation. Upon tasting, the brown sugar pearls in the centre have a similar shape and softness to the ones in bubble tea, delivering a very rich sweetness that begs relief from the more lightly moderately sweetened lotus paste. That said, the lotus paste itself lacked the fragrant lotus flavour that characterises a more traditional mooncake. Overall, this modern mooncake was a big disappointment, suggesting more pandering to current bubble tea trends rather than sophistication in flavour.
This Casahana Elegance 2F Violet Harmony & Brown Sugar Tea au Lait Mooncakes contained 2 mooncakes each 170 g. It was produced in Malaysia and purchased in Sydney, Australia in 2020.