Bustling moon cake market

Only a few days left until Mid-Autumn Festival, at this time, the moon cake market is very vibrant, with a variety of designs and types to serve people's shopping and gift-giving needs.

Walking around Son La city, it is easy to come across stalls, supermarkets displaying and selling moon cakes on the streets with familiar brands such as Kinh Do, Huu Nghi, Bibica... To meet the increasingly diverse culinary needs of consumers, in addition to traditional cake lines, cake companies have launched many new and unique cake lines, such as: Eight Treasures Crab, Satay Scallops, Dong Tao Roasted Chicken... In addition to putting new ingredients into moon cakes, production units focus on the form and design of the box made of embossed wood or high-class paper boxes, modern and luxurious design...

Ms. Tran Thi Quynh Anh, an employee of Kinh Do Bakery Counter at Vincom Plaza Son La , said: This year, the stall opened to serve customers from the beginning of July. Due to the increase in input material prices and transportation costs, the price of cakes this year increased by 3-5% compared to last year, ranging from 58,000 - 171,000 VND/piece for the popular cake line, from 640,000 VND/box for the high-end line. Since the beginning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we have sold more than 2,000 moon cakes.

Kinh Do bakery counter at Vincom Plaza Son La sells a variety of moon cakes.

Choosing moon cakes, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh, Quyet Tam ward, shared: Every year, on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, I buy Kinh Do cakes for my family to enjoy and give to relatives. Moon cakes have a traditional, unique flavor, very suitable for my family's taste.

Besides moon cakes produced by famous brands, handmade cakes attract a large number of customers. These days, at the moon cake shop of Ms. Hua Thi Ngoc, group 3, To Hieu ward, the fragrant aroma of freshly baked cakes is spreading. Witnessing the stages of making moon cakes, one can clearly feel the meticulousness and sophistication in the cake production process.

Ms. Hua Thi Ngoc prepares orders for customers.

Ms. Ngoc said: To make delicious moon cakes, every step is very important and requires meticulousness from choosing ingredients, cooking the filling, kneading the dough, to shaping and baking the cake. The cake must be shiny, golden brown with eggs, and fragrant with grapefruit flowers and banana oil. The baked cake crust must be soft, not crumbly, and the filling must be fragrant.

The freshly baked mooncakes have sharp patterns, smooth molds, and a gentle aroma. With more than 50 mooncake molds from modern to traditional, the surface of each mooncake is like a unique 3D artistic painting with shapes of lanterns, rabbits, lion heads, dragon heads, lotus flowers... with diverse fillings such as: fresh green rice fried with young coconut, lotus puree, salted eggs, black tea, peach oolong, tiramisu chesse, strawberries... each cake weighs 150-170 grams, the price ranges from 55,000 - 70,000 VND/cake. Since the beginning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ms. Ngoc has made nearly 200 mooncakes to serve customers.

Handmade moon cakes with beautiful patterns

In addition to baked cakes and sticky rice cakes, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival features many handmade cakes made from jelly or buns shaped like lion heads or dragon heads, attracting all ages with their unique, eye-catching designs and delicious, novel flavors.

Ms. Pham Thu Huong, Quyet Thang Ward, City, shared: This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, my bakery serves a variety of types so that customers have more choices to display on the full moon tray or give as gifts. For about 2 weeks now, I have sold more than 200 dumplings and over 50 boxes of jelly every day. The prices of the cakes range from 30,000 to 50,000 VND/piece.

Ms. Pham Thu Huong meticulously makes jelly cakes.

Eye-catching dumplings and jelly cakes attract customers to choose.

The variety of moon cakes contributes to creating more choices for consumers. To ensure the health of the family to fully enjoy a safe and meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival, consumers need to carefully check the expiration date, should buy cakes at reputable, branded locations, ensuring food hygiene and safety, for everyone's health.

Thu Tra (Contributor)

Source