Inside the goodies bag I received from the management of Mahkota Parade, there was a box of mooncakes from Starbucks Coffee.

There were two flavours inside, one was the tiramisu while the other was berries cheese. What design do you think Starbucks Coffee would “print” on their mooncakes? Of course, none other than their own logo.

Splitting the mooncake into half, there’s a layer of rich cheese and mung bean set in the middle, wrapped with a mixture of lotus and coffee paste. Among the paste, there’s some melon kernel seeds as well.

It sure tasted kind of weird to me, neither lotus nor coffee. In fact, it tasted more like chocolate to me. It’s not that sweet but difficult to consume that many pieces at one go.

Compared to tiramisu, berries cheese wasn’t that appetizing. From the colour, it sure looked like any other mooncake.

Upon cutting into the mooncake, my nose immediately detected the aroma of berries. According to the piece of paper inside the box, the paste was made from lotus, raspberries, dried cranberries and dried strawberries. In the middle was cheese and mung bean filling, same as the tiramisu flavoured mooncake.

It wasn’t too bad during the first few bite but after that, I had the intention of putting it aside a.k.a throwing it away the 1/4 piece that I cut out earlier.

Overall, both mooncakes tasted pretty average to me, and definitely way off course from the traditional mooncakes with no fancy or weird flavours. While the new flavours are created to cater the younger generation, after tasting two out of four flavours offered by Starbucks Coffee, I think I am going to stick with the lotus paste, red beans, salted egg yolks and etc. for now.

Oh, I seriously love those jelly mooncakes, lotus paste wrapped with coloured jelly. Heh!