With the mid autumn festival comes a special food: mooncakes. They all look pretty, they are filled with various ingredients (often lotus paste and salted egg yolk) and there have even been competitions among the chefs who would create the most fabulous mooncake recipe.
These usually round and decorated pieces of bakery are only sold up to the day of the mid autumn festival and they are expensive! If you find a box of 4 for less than 70sgd count yourself lucky. Prizes go up every day with the approaching festival day. And as soon as the lantern parade is finished, they drop again. And the next day there will be no more mooncakes for sale.
