Happy Mooncake Festival :)
Wow, the price of the mooncakes these days is so outrageous. So unaffordable. It keeps going up & up every year. The manufacturers claim that it’s the cost of the raw materials which have went up but I doubt so. I think it’s the overly nice & unnecessary packaging that takes up most of the cost. Ingredients are expensive only when the manufacturers start to be creative and come up with new flavors; such as Charcoal mocha, Spinach, Dragon fruit lotus chocolate etc. Of course it’s expensive. The ingredients are exquisite. The original red bean and lotus paste ingredients are cheap ok. Even the lanterns have been given an upgrade. Besides the original paper lanterns, there are now the inflatable lanterns and battery-operated lanterns. Cute.
Sometimes, some things are best to be simple. I love the whole new creativity and commercialism of this pastry, but there is also a part of me that craves simplicity.
Sometimes I need to strip away the unnecessary add-ons of my life and live simply :)
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