One-tube mooncakes

Nowadays, you can also buy "one-tube mooncakes" in old-fashioned cake shops or cake stalls in the New Territories.

You will definitely ask: "Mooncakes are packed in square boxes, why do they have tubes?"

Tubular cakes are the oldest and most traditional Cantonese mooncake packaging, but they are However, social progress and changes in the times have long been eliminated, so it is difficult for everyone to see it today. Fortunately, it has not been completely eliminated. If you go back a hundred years and you go to a bakery to buy mooncakes, the clerk will spread out a piece of jade-buttoned paper on the counter, stack the four moon cakes on top, roll the cake into a tube shape with the paper, seal the two ends, and put a red sticker on the top. A piece of paper with the name of the mooncake printed on it, such as "Single-Yellow Lotus Paste", "Five-Ren Sweet Pork" and so on. Then the clerk uses a piece of water grass (or rope) to skillfully tie the tube cake up so that you can easily carry it out of the store.

If you buy two tubes at the same time, the clerk will immediately know how to make them. A piece of waterweed can be twisted to perfection, and the two tubes of cakes will be tied up in an instant. They are thick and thin, beautiful and decent, so that you can give gifts with peace of mind.