Bought some mooncakes the other night. Talk about over-packaging!
A special bag to hold the box.
Multi-lingual labelling, in case you forget what you bought: in my case these are mooncakes with white lotus filling and a single salted egg yolk per cake.
Each cake came in an individual box. Now for some reason I didn’t bother to look inside the box when I bought it. If I’d known how much packaging I was getting I might have chosen another brand!
The actual mooncake. Pretty traditional looking. The characters translate to “mid-autumn mooncake”.
Sliced.
I am a traditionalist when it comes to mooncakes – I prefer red bean filling above all else. Got this white lotus filling for a change. It’s okay but it’s not red bean. These days you can get all sorts of flavours (see Grab Your Fork, for instance) but they seldom appeal to me.
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Love the individual tins – isn’t the OTT packaging because of the tradition of giving mooncakes? You could give four away and each would have its own little tin. Of course if you and M are going to eat them all yourselves the packaging is excessive.
Personally I think the best thing about Xmas presents is how they *LOOK* all wrapped up, so I’m probably the wrong one to answer your post.
🙂 Love the little tins… great for little things to be put in them like paper clips and hair pins.
See- I love the tins and packaging more than the mooncakes….although maybe I’ve never tried the red bean filling?
K
That looks delicious! The last time i had some was at yours. I never buy any myself… Maybe i should remedy that!
Lutie, you are absolutely right – I have given 3 out of the 4 cakes away 🙂
Penny I am still pondering what I’m going to do with my tin.
Kate I don’t think everyone likes mooncakes – even in my own family I think my Dad and I are the only ones who really like ’em.
jaded the festival is next Saturday (3 Oct) so get in soon, else there’ll be none left in the shops! 🙂