NationalChocolateChipCookieDay: 'She launched Maa Maa Dei in September in collab with Nine Bar, celebrating the Autumn Moon festival with peanut butter white miso chocolate chip cookies, lavender milk tea cookies, pandan coconut shortbread, and more.'
Fong, who grew up in her parents Chinese and Chinese-Japanese restaurants in Bloomington, was working in marketing and catering at London House when she was officially furloughed in July. She used the time off to double down on her passion for pastry. She launched Maa Maa Dei in September in collaboration with
, celebrating the Autumn Moon festival with peanut butter white miso chocolate chip cookies, lavender milk tea cookies, pandan coconut shortbread, and, of course, mooncakes. Since then, she’s celebrated most major holidays with a new and fascinating pastry menu.
Fong quickly sold out of these and her strawberry-cherry jam filled melon pan, and the matcha milk tea sugar cookies. When I picked up my box, I asked if she’d be doing them the following week. Also, no. The season was over. All beauty must die.With Warm Welcome , a west coast-based project highlighting the work of female Asian American chefs and bakers, which is planning to release a Chicago box on May 4. If you missed the sakura shortbread, they’re coming back.
And if you miss them again, Fong’s next major menu release will occur in June around the time of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.
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