Festive Food, Pop-Ups & Classes

The Mooncake Festival is coming soon again! This year, Li Bai introduces 2 new flavours:
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🔸[Baked] Super Seeds Mixed Nuts (S$76 for 4): Definitely my favourite, cos I really love the crunch in these! Each piece packs a nutritional punch of wholesome elements that lends a textural contrast of sweet and savoury flavours with each bite. Incorporating 10 healthy ingredients comprising superfoods that are rich in anti-oxidants, the medley consists of chia seed, walnut, macadamia nut, almond, pine nut, prune, pistachio, apricot, melon seed and goji berry.
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🔸[Snowskin] Mini Chia Seed Dark Chocolate (S$68 for 8): Here's one for those like bitter sweet dark chocolate. This flavour is a healthful indulgent creation generously studded with chia seeds. What a good way to sneak some of these superfood into a chocoholic's diet! 😏
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Swipe ⬅️ for more pics and video! These mooncakes make perfect gifts for family and clients. Which would you like to try? ❤️
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From now till 13 Sep 2019, enjoy 15% off discount for purchases made with participating credit/debit cards.
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While mooncakes and hot Chinese tea usually go together, I learnt something new recently!
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If you like things a little less traditional, the tea connoisseurs at @PryceTea recommend that you could make an Iced Sparkling Lychee Pop using oolong tea with osmanthus flowers. And this would be best paired with @MandarinOrchard's Green Tea & Azuki Red Bean mooncakes. What a quintessential pairing made fun! 😜
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Pryce Tea can be found at Takashimaya Basement 2's mooncake atrium fair. Let me know what type of tea you would choose to go with your favourite mooncakes! 🍵
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To be honest, I had initial reservations about this bakery (not heard of the brand before), but was keen to try after I learnt that it supplies mooncakes to hotels and restaurants. Indeed, they were good - the paste was smooth and overall not very sweet! The bakery also allows customers to pick and mix the mooncake flavours, and can deliver within 60 minutes of online order.
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Who wants to try these hotel-equivalent quality mooncakes in pretty drawer-chest boxes at an affordable price (no mark-up for branding)? Quote <> to enjoy 10% off discount!
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1. Giveaway ends on 11 Sep 2019 (Wed), 2359 hours (GMT +8).
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3. Self-collection of mooncakes required.
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The other evening, we tried various traditional and niche Italian products as part of the "True Italian Taste" project - a large-scale worldwide educational initiative promoted and funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and implemented by Assocamerestero.
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These included parma ham from @HubersButchery, cheeses from @GranaPadano, sun-dried tomatoes and olives, wine from @EWineAsia and @Enoteca_Singapore, premium soft drinks from @Jupiter.57 etc. Swipe ⬅️ to view more pictures.
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Thanks for the invitation, @ItalChamberSG! 🇮🇹
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Mooncake fever heats up in this final week before the festival! So, do you prefer traditional flavours (e.g. lotus paste with yolk) or different ones?
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This year, Mandarin Orchard unveils a new flavour - the elegantly gold-dusted Charcoal-baked Yuzu and Mixed Nuts with Black Sesame Paste! While my parents can be quite traditional (no snowskin for them 😜), I was surprised that they liked this flavour. The black sesame was rich, and nuts/ dried golden yuzu offered good contrasting colour and texture.
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Btw, one of the allures of buying mooncakes is also the beautiful packaging. Just look at this modern turquoise tower box with pops of fuchsia! Spot the hotel's signature lattice pattern, accentuated by a motif of peony flowers in copper foil stamping.
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The Mooncake Festival is coming soon again! This year, Li Bai introduces 2 new flavours:
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🔸[Baked] Super Seeds Mixed Nuts (S$76 for 4): Definitely my favourite, cos I really love the crunch in these! Each piece packs a nutritional punch of wholesome elements that lends a textural contrast of sweet and savoury flavours with each bite. Incorporating 10 healthy ingredients comprising superfoods that are rich in anti-oxidants, the medley consists of chia seed, walnut, macadamia nut, almond, pine nut, prune, pistachio, apricot, melon seed and goji berry.
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🔸[Snowskin] Mini Chia Seed Dark Chocolate (S$68 for 8): Here's one for those like bitter sweet dark chocolate. This flavour is a healthful indulgent creation generously studded with chia seeds. What a good way to sneak some of these superfood into a chocoholic's diet! 😏
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Swipe ⬅️ for more pics and video! These mooncakes make perfect gifts for family and clients. Which would you like to try? ❤️
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From now till 13 Sep 2019, enjoy 15% off discount for purchases made with participating credit/debit cards.
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#thehedgehogknows #sheratontowersg #snowskin #mooncakes #mooncake #中秋节 #mooncakefestival2019 #mooncake2019

This will mark the first of our Mooncake Festival posts, though the festival will take place only 2 months later (13 September)!
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Mandarin Orchard unveils this year's collection and packaging:
🔸Taking centrestage is the Limited Edition Piglet-shaped Mooncake filled with two different flavours, Azuki Red Bean Paste and Low Sugar White Lotus Paste.
🔸For those who want to try new flavours, savour the elegantly gold-dusted Charcoal-baked Yuzu and Mixed Nuts with Black Sesame Paste, all made with premium ingredients.
🔸Each baked mooncake is elegantly presented in a custom-designed turquoise tower box with pops of fuchsia. Adorning the box is the hotel’s signature lattice pattern, accentuated by a motif of peony flowers in copper foil stamping.
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Swipe ⬅️ for more pics and video! These make perfect gifts for family and clients. ❤️
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Early bird discounts are available from 6 to 16 Aug 2019 for selected cards:
▪️25% off (DBS/ POSB), or
▪️20% off (UOB/ Citibank/ Maybank)
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Attended an enriching hands-on Italian cooking class today and enjoyed the fruits (food) of our labour over some prosecco🍸and red wine🍷! The dishes we prepared were:
🔸Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli
🔸Tomato-based Tagliolini
🔸Pear & Almond Cake
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This cake was one I would definitely want to bake again at home. It was so moist 👍. We also had great fun making pastas from scratch, kneading the dough and then pulling them over the pasta machine. Swipe ⬅️ for more pics.
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This Foodies' Cooking Class, conducted by @The.Italian.Hob of @Apics.ItalianCulture, is one of the efforts of the association to promote the Italian culture 🇮🇹 - from cuisine to fashion, from art to design, and of language classes too. Today's session certainly brought me back to the wonderful memories of our Europe trip, where we also covered various parts of Italy (Venice, Rome, Florence, Tuscany). 😍
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Today is the last day to get this free beautiful ice cream! Available from 4 to 7pm at @Ion_Orchard, right outside Tiffany & Co (#01-21).
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The queue could get a little long, so it would be great to turn up earlier slightly before 4pm. It was a little too sweet but I won't say no especially after shopping under the warm weather. Don't say #bojio!
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And so this concludes my series of Chinese New Year 2019 photos. Here's another one more prosperity toss for y'all! 🥢
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Wishing everyone a blessed year ahead. 🍊🍊 Swipe ⬅️ for more photos.
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Served as part of our 7-course Chinese New Year🧧set (S$368++ for 6-pax).
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I used to have this in Hong Kong and we fondly call it 马仔. Have you tried this before?
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Similar to the western Rice Krispy Treat, this Oriental sweet treat is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. I like how Mandarin Orchard's interpretation of this traditional snack is one made with caramel and a generous touch of pine nuts for the added crunch. Nice! 😊
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Available for take away at the hotel's Level 1 Chinese New Year Festive Counter (till 3 Feb 2019) or Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro at Level 35 (till 19 Feb 2019).
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I like how this latest nian gao from Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant draws its natural sweetness from cane sugar. Complemented with a hint of tartness from the apricot for a refreshing twist, this is a healthier alternative to the traditional nian gao. The older folks love it! 😉 Available for dine-in and takeaway.
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Stay tuned for our review of Li Bai's Chinese New Year menu, coming up soon! 😊
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