Mid-Autumn Festival everyone bought the moon cakes they want to eat? In fact, every year the Mid-Autumn Festival will have a very large number of people will go to buy moon cakes to give away, of course, there are also their own take to eat, so in the end, which one of the flavors will be tasty some of it, take a look together.

1) It is not an exaggeration to say: 95% of the mooncakes on the market, are not worth buying; 99% of the hotel mooncakes, even less worth buying.

For example, most Hangzhou hotels' Cantonese mooncakes (and other cities as well) are made by Guangzhou Restaurants.

Since they're all OEM mooncakes, why not just go for Guangzhou Restaurants'.

How can you tell if a mooncake is OEM? It's clearly written on the box, and it's not a lie in black and white.

2)Most moon cakes have a lot of additives

The vast majority of moon cakes, the filling must have preservatives inside, because of the high moisture content of the filling, and the shelf-life requirements of a long time, if you don't add preservatives, the shelf-life of a few days time, it can not be sold.

While there has never been a clear link between the consumption of preservatives and health, it is still recommended that you try to eat mooncakes that have a short shelf life and are free of various additives.

Buy mooncakes that basically have an expiration date of only 3-7 days. It's also a good idea to look at the ingredient list to see if there are any additives.

How to choose

1)Figure out if you are giving it away, or eating it yourself.

The mooncake that you give away is completely different from the mooncake that you eat. The mooncakes you give to someone should have a high value, a nice gift box, and also look a little different.

The best-looking mooncake I've ever received is the joint model between Marriott and the Forbidden City, with a box that looks like a jewelry box.

Of course, this would be a gift for a friend who isn't very close. Or a friend who doesn't know you that well.

If you send some about better friends, you will choose some handmade, freshly made, delicious.

For example, Shanghai Andaz bought a bunch of fresh meat moon cakes, cost-effective and delicious. It's just that the express delivery is not working and the shelf life is too short.

Compared to fancy mooncakes, Andaz's fresh meat mooncakes win with their hot, savory flavor. Everyone loves to line up for the fresh ones, and the delicious axiom is definitely: eat them while they're hot!

But if it's a friend you don't know well, and you send him mooncakes that are simply packaged like this, and then a box of 8 that only costs 60 bucks, the other person will probably think you're a particularly stingy person, right?

If the other party's relationship is good on good, and at the same time very know how to eat, buy Yung Moon to the other party.

It's no exaggeration to say that it's the best mooncake you'll ever eat, and it's definitely the Guangzhou Big Brother restaurant's Rong Yue. Although the moon is not cheap, 4 mooncakes to sell 188 (Chenpi bean paste vegetarian moon), more expensive 4 to 398 (lard bean paste ginger gold and silver moon).

But after all, Rong Yue production of all hands, no additives, wood-fired iron pot cooking bean paste, the focus is to persist year after year. Many people eat it and feel that it is the flavor of the mooncake when you were a child. This year has long been unable to buy Rong Yue, next year want to eat please hurry up.

If you are eating by yourself, you don't care about the packaging at all. Many mooncakes spend more than half of their cost on packaging. I don't care so much about the expiration date of the mooncake, the shorter the expiration date, the more there are no additives, preservatives. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find the best way to get the most out of your time, but I'm sure you're going to be able to find the best way to get the most out of your time.

2)Choosing the right flavor

The traditional mooncake is divided into four main genres, namely Beijing-style, Cantonese-style, Su-style and Dian-style, each of which has its own distinctive features and flavors.

Most people, eat Canton and Suzhou style.

The Cantonese mooncake, with its rich filling, is the connotation of the Cantonese mooncake, which is characterized by heavy oil, thin skin and much filling.

Su-style mooncakes are actually called crispy style, that layers of crispy skin must be the essence of crispy mooncakes. Handmade, not machine-made, the dough must be well kneaded and freshly baked.

The Dian-style mooncake, filled with Dian-style ham, has a flaky crust and a savory-sweet filling.

The Peking-style mooncake is characterized by its moderate sweetness and filling ratio, heavy use of sesame oil, sweet taste and crunchy texture.

In the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai generation, it's still simple to eat Suzhou-style mooncakes. In Suzhou, meat and mooncakes are a natural pair. Meat mooncakes, hairy crabs and the scent of osmanthus flowers make up Suzhou's fall.

It feels like it's time for a trip to Suzhou.

3) To machine, or to handcraft. Want original, or OEM.

If you know anything about mooncakes, you'll know that Peninsula Hong Kong's miniature milk yolks are already considered very good. But compared to the mini custard mooncakes at its own Chinese restaurant, Ka Lun Lau, it's a dud.

Why? Peninsula's ordinary mini custard is mass-produced by machine; but Jia Lin Lou's mini custard, is purely handmade.

Teacher manpower is limited, the production of 40,000 boxes of moon cakes a year is already the limit, you can only buy the first online lottery, and then offline self-pickup.

So why are so many hotels not willing to do handmade mooncakes? Because there is no money to be made. The black truffle mooncake of Hangzhou Zixuan is high enough, a box of six is only 128. Shanghai Andaz sells a box of eight fresh meat mooncakes for 60 yuan.

Selling 10 boxes won't make you as much money as selling a box of processed Cantonese mooncakes.

Combined with the short shelf life of freshly made mooncakes, making your own handmade mooncakes is definitely a thankless task.

Many restaurants and star hotels do not produce mooncakes from their own kitchens, but from food manufacturers. And basically, they are still looking for Guangzhou restaurants.

Guangzhou restaurant has its own three-inch lotus production base as well as duck egg yolk production base. The restaurant's revenue is far less lucrative than that of the OEM mooncakes.

So most of the mooncakes are really just paying for a box. In that case, why not just buy mooncakes from Guangzhou Restaurant? The mooncakes from Guangzhou Restaurant are also available for sale directly to consumers.

4) For mooncakes, restaurants are often more reliable than hotels

The best mooncake I've had so far this year has been Yung Yue, from Guangzhou's Big Brother restaurant. This year, the best mooncake I've had so far is the abalone mooncake from Guang Zhou, a restaurant in Shanghai.

Shanghai has a restaurant called Shanghai Tang that is very good at making local dishes. Every year, it offers several elaborate and detailed mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, such as Shanghai's favorite, the Suzhou-style fresh meat, and the Cantonese-style bird's nest mooncake.

Whenever you want to eat Dian-style mooncakes, in addition to getting help from friends from Guan Sheng Yuan and Jiahua, you will also go to a sit down and forget this Yunnan cuisine restaurant. Hangzhou's opened in the Kerry Center here, their cloud leg moon cake, do is still quite decent.

In Hangzhou, it is not so easy to eat Dian-style moon cakes.

Even in the same hotel, the restaurant is more authentic than the hotel. For example, the city of Hangzhou incense, the hotel sells Cantonese-style mooncake processing, no characteristics, Xiangla Group to the road color.

But the Chinese restaurant in the city sells fresh squash and dried plum vegetable meat, 8 yuan a, and do not need dine-in, in the Chinese restaurant stalls can be bought. It's much more reliable than what the hotel sells, as well as a much better value.

5) The old mooncakes from around the world are actually quite good

I personally like the old mooncakes compared to the processed ones or some of the Netflix mooncakes. Old-fashioned mooncakes can be cost-effective and tasty.

Take Hangzhou as an example, you can go to the September life to buy squash fresh meat, September life is not quite an old one. The main thing is that there are a lot of cloth points. Occasionally, when you pass by Jiuzhizhai and WangbaoLai, you will also buy. These two stores moon cake season, can often be a queue.

Take a look at a few old favorites that are worth recommending.

Shanghai, Guangming_Da Restaurant, Changchun Food Store, Boss Chang, Boss Fang

Hangzhou, Jiuzhizhai, WangbaoLai

Suzhou, Xucheng Mansion, Changfa Xibai, Caizhizhai

Beijing, Beijing Dasanyuan

Guangzhou, Lianxianglou, Guangzhou Restaurant

Yunnan, Jiahua, Guan Shengyuan

Hong Kong. Yuen Long Wing Wah, Kee Wah, Peninsula Ka Lun Lau, Wong_

Cantonese, the only choice is the big brother restaurant Rong Yue, after eating Rong Yue and then eat the other Cantonal mooncakes, really are all crumbs. But the biggest problem with Rong Yue is that the production is too small, every year is a spike.