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A few weeks ago a friend and I were at a Vietnamese market in the Bronx of all places when we came across the delicacy pictured here. Since the damn thing was so cute she purchased two for herself. I only bought one, largely because cuteness doesn't score quite as many points with me. Looking around the store, I noticed several moon cakes and it soon dawned on me that this little piggy is meant to celebrate the Vietnamese version of the Chinese Moon Festival, which took place yesterday. The other day I decided to eat the little guy. Like many moon cakes, he was packed with a sweet filling, in this case lotus seed paste. For some reason I started with the head. I soon made short work of the dense cake, which served as breakfast along with a cup of green tea.
Since you can't read the little tag, here's the gist of it. The English name of this confection is "The gold pig with riches and honor." The Vietnamese text reads, "Bánh Heo Phú Qui Bánh Con Heo Trung Thu." My curiosity about exotic foods runs pretty much neck and neck with my obsession with foreignlanguages. Thanks to the wonders of VDict, I was able to translate the Vietnamese. VDict stumbled over the word "qui," but here's its translation "pig pie endow mid-autumn pig pie qui." All of which seems to make sense since Trung Thu is the Vietnamese name for the Moon Festival.
Now that I ate the little guy, I'm waiting for the riches and honor to start rolling in. Still, I can't help think that I should have eaten it by the light of last night's full moon to seal the deal.
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9-27-2007 @1:33AM Lala said... Ooooh, I remember having these as a child. They were very tasty, and came with silk flowers stuck on the pig. Mmm, must crack open the moon cakes my folks sent me.
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9-27-2007 @10:23AM jsmylie said... Reminds me of the pig-shaped pork buns I used to eat once a week in Japan, only those never promised me I'd be rich!
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9-27-2007 @1:57PM Arbert said... "Golden Pig, Harvest Moon Pig Cake"
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9-28-2007 @1:29PM Adriane said... oh! I want one! I live in a pretty rural place-- anywhere to buy them online? Or anyone willing to do some porcine wheeling and dealing for me? Haha
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