I see there's no tread about moon cakes and was wondering about everybody else.

(01) Do you take the festival seriously?
(02) If you do, how many averagely do you buy for presents a year?
(03) What is your favourite brand?

The production on mooncakes is in full swing now and in some cases they are already in promotions in some supermarkets. The hungry ghost festival has not even started and mooncakes is on sale now. Talk about commercialism . It is getting really unrealistic nowadays. Back in those days, they come in roll form. A packet still holds four cakes just like Ghee Hiang 'tambun biscuits' which is sililiarly packed. Nowadays there is a packaging war amongts the producers and this has made mooncakes really really expensive. I think the most innovative packaging has to be Baker's Cottage.

The main players are Kum Lun Tai (an olde brand), Foh San, Yoke Woo Hin, Overseas Restaurant, Baker's Cottage and a few more I can't recall and even Amway has it. Not only packaging are important, the range is even more challenging, even for buyers. No more the usual, without yolk, with double yolk, sweet bean, 'lin yung' etc. Now there are chocolate flavour,durian flavour, dragon fruit flavour etc.etc. In my opinion we are actually lining the producers pocket with this over hyped event.

Gone are the days when we will buy lanterns and also make 'match guns' to shoot at the lanterns I think younger generations never even seen a 'match gun' before not have they seen self made lantern with Milo tins or the spinning condensed milk tin on a spool powered by rolling the spool on the ground. Great inventions from bored and poor kids like us who don't have the privilege of buying a lantern. Or our lantern got burned and those days, one festival one lantern, no more. Burnt! that's your problem.

I don't really care about the festival nowadays but my MIL will buy a few boxes and called it ours and send to other relatives and relatives will in return get other moon cakes to present and then those she received goes back out into circulation. Doesn't really make sense to me actually. So, what your opinion?

Buy a syringe from any pharmacy and pump some of your favourite liquor into them before cutting. maybe can even pump 'Mou Tai', he,he,he.

My wife brought home a few boxes from my in-laws, (old folks tend to avoid them nowadays) and I ate one but it was terrible. Very dry! Seeing them appearing even before the beginning of 'Phor Tor' month, it must have been lying there for almost 2 months