PIGGY BISCUITS

 PIGGY BISCUITS FOR MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

I am holding up colourful plastic baskets with piggy biscuits. Hmm ... you may be wondering why they are called piggy biscuits, right?

Here is the background story.

A long, long time ago, not everyone could afford moon cakes despite their significance to the Mid-Autumn celebration.

Then, in the 60s, pastry makers came up with the idea to use leftover doughs from moon cakes.  The dough is made into pig shaped biscuits. They are also known as doll biscuits (kung chai peng in Cantonese). Bakeries and restaurants selling the piggy biscuits began putting them in little baskets resembling pig cages and decorated them with colourful ribbons and tassels to make them more attractive to children. These biscuits are only available whenever mooncakes are on sale. They’re made with the same dough for mooncakes and baked without filling, making them much thicker and heavier.