In the early 199s, I ate a moon cake that I will never forget.

It was my grandfather who took a trip to Beijing and brought me back a box of palace snacks, a red paper box, which was aristocratic.

Grandpa said that this is a Beijing-style pastry, which was called "big eight pieces" and "small eight pieces" in Peiping.

But the taste of this palace snack is really hard to agree with. Just like the moon cakes in this gift box, they are said to be the moon cakes offered in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the old days, but they are hard and can bounce off the ground. Mung bean cake is dried and powdered when eaten in your mouth, and all the water in your mouth is sucked dry. As Mr. Liang Shiqiu said: "The taste is so sweet! Choke to death! "

But there is a kind of moon cake with hawthorn stuffing, which is thin and small, white all over, as white as jade, round and shiny, with a little red mark on the top, naughty and lovely, but with a very different taste. Grandpa said that this is a famous moon cake in the court.

after a sip, the moon cake is not sticky or hard, but delicious, soft and waxy. Although it looks similar to the local mung bean cake, it is more like the wedding cake used in Guangdong.

The pastry of the fluffy moon cake is thin, thin and crisp. I just move it a little, and the mooncake peels off. When eating, you have to hold the cake with one hand and put the other hand under this hand to pick up the crust.

Because you eat carefully, it is easier for people to taste the food. The skin is crisp layer by layer, as thin as cotton paper, and can be completely peeled off from the outside to the inside.

hawthorn stuffing is extremely soft, without induration, and it is sweet and light with a little sweetness and sourness. The bland cake crust and hawthorn paste stuffing are chewed together, and the two become waxy, soft and sweet.

It's really a good moon cake, but it's sweet, greasy and not too thick. Everything is just right.

Grandpa just watched me eat until I licked the crust off my hands. This kind of moon cake is really delicious. The sweet taste, accompanied by the afternoon sunshine and faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, has always survived in my memory.

However, my grandfather who accompanied me to eat Fanmao moon cakes has long since left me. Even if there are Fanmao moon cakes again, even if we can find the flavor of the old days, we will never find the old days.