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25th August, 2010
KOTA KINABALU: Port View Restaurant will be introducing its own brand of moon cakes that comes in 10 flavours with 38 varieties for the upcoming Moon Cake Festival. Among the new recipes are flavours such as the Hakka Mei Xiang Lotus moon cake as well as the traditional savouries to suit all generations.
“The Hakka-styled moon cake is made from lotus paste mixed with vegetable that gives it a salty taste. We hope that this one of a kind moon cake will gain the local support of the Hakka community here and we will continue to produce these in the future,” said Port View chief executive officer Lim Vun Chan to reporters at a press conference yesterday announcing the new Port View moon cakes for this year.
Other special recipes that are being introduced are the Hong Kong Milk Tea moon cake and the Ipoh White Coffee moon cake which mixes the respective ingredients together with lotus paste to create a new variety of moon cakes.
The moon cakes are produced by Port View Euro Bakery Sdn Bhd which is Port View’s venture into the moon cake business.
“Making moon cakes has been a traditional extension of the restaurant business among the Chinese, so we are following behind a traditional Chinese footstep,” said Lim.
Lim said that Port View restaurant has invested about RM10 million into a baking factory in the hope of bringing international standard moon cakes in the state.
“We have invested about RM5 million in the machinery alone with advanced technology from Japan that will ensure the cleanliness of the moon cakes,” said Port View Euro Bakery managing director Foo Hoe Weng.
According to Foo, the moon cakes are packed into vacuum seals that will ensure the freshness of the moon cakes and also reduce the sugar used to bake them.
“Sugar is used to preserve the moon cakes which is the reason why it is so sweet but with the vacuum seal, we can ensure its freshness and that is why we can reduce the sugar used to bake them,” he said.
Foo also said that no pork is used as an ingredient for the moon cakes but the company is still in the process of applying for a Halal certification.
The moon cakes are priced between RM16 to RM30 for two pieces and RM30 to RM70 for four pieces.
Port View will also be selling two limited editions gift sets that come with six pieces of moon cake and a special tea leaves for RM138 and four pieces of moon cake and special tea leaves for RM88.
“We will only produce 500 boxes of the six piece gift set and 2,500 boxes of the four piece gift set,” said Lim.
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