It's easy to be disgusted by the sweet moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival, so it's best to match a pot of tea. What's the best tea to match the moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival? The small moon cakes express our most traditional and simple feelings. Most Chinese people think that tea is the 'golden partner' of the moon cakes.
Super sweet mooncakes: jujube mud, bean paste, lotus paste, pineapple
Recommended tea: mint tea, green tea. Super sweet moon cakes need to be digested with tea. Light green tea and mint can promote the metabolism of glucose and prevent too much sugar from staying in the body.
Super oil moon cake: egg yolk, marinated meat, five nuts
Recommended tea products: Pu'er tea, chrysanthemum tea, hawthorn tea. The greasy moon cake is suitable for the heavy taste tea, reduces the greasy taste. Pu'er tea is the best choice, because it is sweet and cold and has a good effect of clearing fat. Chrysanthemum tea can reduce fire, hawthorn tea can promote gastric acid secretion, help gastrointestinal digestion.
Half sweet and half salty mooncakes: mung beans, salt and pepper
Recommended tea: Oolong tea. Compared with the super sweet and super oil mooncakes, the taste of semi sweet and semi salty is fresh and elegant. Drinking oolong tea is a good choice. Because oolong tea is a semi fermented tea, it is not astringent compared with green tea. It has a warm taste and can reflect the mellow taste of salty and sweet taste.
Light mooncake: low sugar, purple potato, yam
Recommended tea: flower tea. The light moon cake can match the tea with a little taste. For example, in a pot of rose tea and a sour plum, you can set off the fragrance of the rose, but also bring out a light sweet taste. At this time, you can chew the moon cake, which is light and not greasy. It feels very good.