Zhenqida Food Factory innovatively produces Moringa Ice Wing Mooncakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the mooncakes are out of the oven.

In Anpu Town, several cake factories at the entrance to the polder are operating at full capacity, and the faint aroma of cakes fills the streets.

Take a deep breath and feel as if you can smell the sweetness in the filling.

That's the taste of hometown.

In the industrial age, purely handmade mooncakes are hard to find.

The Lianxiang Shijia Mooncake Factory, located at Puchangkou, Anpu Town, retains the manual operations of stuffing making, kneading and other processes, and does not fully automate production.

Twenty or thirty workers gathered around the big table. There was a huge square iron basin filled with five-nut filling.

With quick hands, the worker quickly grabbed a ball of stuffing and kneaded it into a ball. He handed it to the next person to weigh, and accurately weighed out 118 grams.

Within a few minutes, a plate was filled with five-nut filling dumplings. From a distance, they looked like the famous dish "Lion's Head" freshly cooked.

Hand kneading.

Each piece of dough is weighed on a weighing instrument.

Cantonese, especially those in western Guangdong, have a special liking for large mooncakes.

The fillings of the big moon cakes are also rolled into balls, like bowling balls.

The worker took out a large ball of creamy yellow cotton from the basin, kneaded it evenly into a cake, and spread it out like a warm velvet quilt.

The dough is lightly covered on the stuffing, and the workers' smart hands smooth it out carefully to make the dough and stuffing fit tightly, knead and wrap it tightly, like a big bun.

The cake skin should be uniform and not thick or thin, otherwise the mooncakes will be uneven in thickness.

With a muffled "bang" sound, the air pressure pushed the piston of the molding machine, and a large mooncake weighing four kilograms was formed.

Then a layer of golden egg liquid is carefully applied on the dough, and the mooncakes will be sent to the oven. After being cooked, they are exquisitely packaged and entered into thousands of households.

After being wrapped by hand, it is then molded by machine mold equipment.

Pan Zhiqing, the helmsman of the cake factory, started his business by making cakes and pastries, and it has been passed down to him for the third generation.

One month before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, his cake factory operates at full capacity to produce mooncakes.

"The furthest ones are sold as far as Beijing, but the quantity is not large. People there mainly want to try the Cantonese mooncakes." Pan Zhiqing said that his cake factory has an annual output value of more than 20 million yuan. During the month of producing mooncakes,

There are more than 70 positions, and workers recruited are paid on a daily basis. This year's orders are not greatly affected by the epidemic and are basically the same as last year.

The worker spreads the egg paste onto the cake surface in preparation for baking.

There is a large-scale Zhenqida mooncake factory in Wewei Town.

Moringa mooncakes, as green as emeralds, are the specialty products of this cake factory.

This plant "Moringa" grows widely in Guangdong. Its seeds can extract high-grade lubricating oil, and its young leaves can be made into soup, which is delicious.

Fresh Moringa leaves can be used as vegetables, young leaves can be eaten directly, and relatively older leaves can be roasted and made into tea after being picked.

When the pods turn yellow and dry, the harvested seeds can be crushed into a powder for use in condiments.

The mooncakes are made into shapes using a cake beating machine and a plate placing machine.

"Moringa mooncakes are low in sugar and fat, which can satisfy some of the 'three high' people who want to eat mooncakes and meet their festival needs." Mai Yangming, the person in charge of this cake factory, inherited the business from his father Mai Kangqing more than ten years ago.

Ambition, started to enter the pastry industry.

Last year, he developed Moringa mooncakes, which were well received. This year, he has received many additional orders.

Bake out of the oven.

In Anpu Town, there are many mooncake and pastry manufacturers, including five or six large-scale ones.

At present, these companies have established pastry associations, with more than ten companies joining them.

It is their common vision to become bigger and stronger and gain brand awareness of Anpu cakes.

Mooncakes are baked.

Anpu Town is famous for its beautiful arcades and various delicacies.

"On the night of August 15th, children set up cakes and bait for squatting owl as an offering, built a tower with rubble, and burned it with real fuel. It was called burning the tower, and they gathered together to drink under the moon, which was called appreciating the Mid-Autumn Festival." An elder in the ancient town said that during the Qing Dynasty,

During the Republic of China, the tradition of burning pagodas during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in front of the Guandi Temple in Anpu.

Nowadays, Mid-Autumn Festival activities are more diversified and people are immersed in joy. Moon cakes for the festival are dazzling all over the streets.