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I am now the owner of a Hello Kitty handbag. Do you think I can also use it as an innocent-looking camera bag? Mooncake packaging keeps getting fancier each year. As a gift, the mooncakes from Good Chen are quite unique as they come in/with a cute handbag. The cakes are also embossed with the cartoon character, including those of Spongebob and Doraemon.

I bought two flavours from their Hello Kitty range to try. As photographed here; the Ultimate Brown Mix which is Hazelnut Coffee. At right, the Coco Diva is lotus paste with macadamia nuts and choc-oreo biscuits coated together with Belgian dark chocolates. Yumz!

The annual Mooncake Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival or Lantern Festival in Malaysia and Singapore. It falls on September 19th this year.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f4.5, 1/50 sec.

Good Chen Hello Kitty Mooncakes

Mooncakes By The Moonlight

Did you know that many of the nice food shots you see in glossy recipe books are photographed by a window? If you are a food blogger or like photographing your food, look for a seat near the window, if it is in the day. Half your lighting worries are over.Here, I used two Galaxy S3 LED lights to highlight the sliced pieces. The main “moon light” comes from the window at the back. White balance was tuned to be slightly blue. Conqueror Paper texture filter added with PicsPlay app.

The aunties from Angel Cake House are back as Joy Bakery. Shown here are their bite-size mini mooncakes. Great for those of you wanting to try this Mid Autumn Festival delicacy for the first time.

Mooncakes By The Moonlight