today was national day. think labor day. think beginning of autumn festival. think mooncakes. people give these delicous cakes to each other during the autumn festival. they are priced from fairly expensive (10 yuan for one) to exorbitantly expensive (100 yuan for one). i feel like they're a bit like status symbols. i have so much money, so i'm going to give you an expensive mooncake. or a box of expensive mooncakes. it's very interesting.
for autumn festival, the school gave every teacher a box. the amount of packaging is wonderful. i got a shopping bag designed to fit a box of mooncakes. inside that bag was a box of mooncakes. inside that box was a golden fleece lining and eight boxes, each containing a different mooncake. upon opening a small box, the cake is in a small plastic cupcake tin, sealed inside a plastic bag. besides just a mooncake in the plastic, you get a packet of chemicals to keep it fresh! oh the wonder!
each cake is it's own man. at first i thought they were all going to be like the first i ate, which would make them roughly equivilent to christmas fruitcakes. but they have ones with dried meat, sweet-bean paste, hardboiled egg yolk? it is a virtual smorgasbord of mooncakery. amazing. i just wish autumn festival happened more than once a year. sigh.
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