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Karen and Aik popped by to visit Olive on Friday afternoon and came laden with moon pies (a fancy name for mooncakes?) and durian puffs. Hmmm, I like! Olive was quite well behaved but she needs to learn how to relax when held by others and not cling to me, mummy-slave, all day long.

But, back to the moon pies. This box came from Le Cafe Confectionary & Pastry in Middle Road — who claim on their website (a mooncake shop with a website?!) to be one of the oldest confectioner's shops in Singapore — and contained seven varieties of cake, sorry, pie. My favourites were the savoury and the yam pies; Phil loved the coffee-flavoured mooncake. "For coffee lovers who demand rich, full-bodied flavour". Coffee-flavoured mooncakes? Yep, it's out with the traditional lotus paste and egg yolk and in with, well, whatever ingredients you can think of. A quick search on the net and I see we now have:

• tiramisu mooncakes
• chocolate mooncakes
• raspberry cheese mooncakes
• strawberry jelly mooncakes
• cendol mooncakes
• toffee coconut mooncakes (now those sound good)
• Nyonya sambal mooncake (these don't!)