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What flavor of moon cakes do you eat on Mid-Autumn Festival?

There are always some moon cakes whose status cannot be shaken, such as the traditional five-kernel moon cakes. No matter how the times change, the total sales volume is still the "king" of moon cakes, followed by lotus seed yolk moon cakes, milk yellow moon cakes, cloud leg moon cakes and so on.

The first kind: rose moon cakes.

Rose moon cake, also called flower cake, is a kind of moon cake full of flowers. It is made of fine rose petals. The skin is golden and crisp, the flowers are pleasant and the filling is sweet. Take a bite, the rose blooms on the tip of your tongue, and the flowers linger between your lips and teeth. Slight rose flavor, delicious but not greasy, delicious and satisfying, especially the rose moon cakes just baked. Layers of crispy skin are as thin as cicadas' wings and delicious as slag.

The second kind: jujube paste moon cakes

Jujube mud moon cake is one of the classic flavors of moon cakes, and both the north and the south like it very much. Using high-quality jujube as raw material, the mud filling was made after removing the core. They are delicate, sweet, soft and waxy, and they have a strong jujube flavor when bitten. The silky jujube paste stuffing is extremely sweet and has a rustling taste, which makes it have a unique taste. In addition, jujube can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi. On Mid-Autumn Festival, female friends who love beauty may wish to eat one or two more moon cakes filled with jujube paste.

The third kind: fresh meat moon cakes.

In the eyes of northerners, moon cakes are mostly sweet, but in the south, on the contrary, minced meat moon cakes seasoned with light soy sauce are very popular in the south. For example, the fresh meat moon cake in Suzhou is a must. The thin dough is wrapped in salty and juicy meat stuffing, which is elastic and juicy, crispy and oily, making people scream and eat. Friends who have never eaten may wish to try.

The fourth kind: pineapple moon cakes.

Pineapple moon cakes are popular in Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces, and belong to a kind of fruit-flavored moon cakes. They have the same appearance as ordinary moon cakes. But after cutting, the filling is golden and transparent, and the fresh pineapple aroma is coming. The skin is soft and palatable, and the pineapple stuffing is sweet but not greasy. When you take a bite of pineapple fragrance, you will feel that it is instantly generated, with a little grainy feeling of fruit, sour and sweet, and it tastes particularly good.

The fifth kind: coconut moon cakes.

Hainan is rich in coconuts, and coconut moon cakes have become a local feature. After opening, the rich coconut fragrance is refreshing, and the delicate and dense coconut stuffing is accompanied by a sweet and soft skin. The unique taste of shredded coconut is sweet and moist, and the coconut fragrance is rich but not greasy. This unique taste is not available in popular moon cakes, so it is not an exaggeration to call it moon cakes on the tip of the tongue.

The sixth kind: moon cakes with bean paste

Bean paste moon cake is one of the most classic flavors of sweet moon cakes and one of the representatives of northern moon cakes. Red bean granules have placed acacia and carried the reunion, which is favored by many friends. Golden moon cakes are wrapped in rich and sweet red bean stuffing, soft and delicious, delicate and oily. The dense red bean paste melts in the mouth, sweet in the heart, fragrant between the lips and teeth, and it is not greasy to eat.

The seventh kind: cloud-legged moon cakes

Yuntui moon cake, also known as Yunnan flavor moon cake, is a kind of salty and sweet moon cake made of Yuntui as the main raw material. Its appearance is unpretentious. After cutting, it is full of fragrant Yunnan ham granules, which are salty in sweetness and sweet in saltiness. It is said that Yuntui moon cake has a history of more than 400 years, which made Emperor Li Yong happy. However, compared with ordinary moon cakes, cloud push moon cakes will be more expensive.

Eighth: yellow moon cakes with flowing milk.

Liu Xin Milk Yellow Moon Cake is a rising star among moon cakes. It not only retains the traditional moon cake practice, but also innovates in taste. From the appearance, it is golden yellow, small and exquisite, but it is very dry after cutting. The golden flowing heart goes with the tide, emitting a strong milk fragrance, and taking a bite of the milky yellow stuffing as fragrant as satin has become a favorite taste of many young people.

Ninth: Lotus seed paste and egg yolk moon cakes.

Lotus seed yolk moon cake is the representative work of Cantonese moon cake, with thick skin and strong flavor, salty and joyful. As early as the Qing dynasty, it was famous all over the country. It is made of fresh lotus seeds by soaking, steaming and frying, with golden yellow salted egg yolk. The sweetness of lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk are intertwined, and the taste is rich and layered, which can be said to be the ceiling of the moon cake industry.

The tenth kind: Wuren moon cake

In the world of moon cakes, new fillings and new flavors of moon cakes emerge one after another, but in the eyes of the older generation, the classic five-kernel moon cakes have an irreplaceable position and are "orthodox" moon cakes. It can be said that the traditional Wuren moon cake is the "protagonist" on the Mid-Autumn Festival shopping list every year. Five kinds of nuts, such as walnut kernel, almond kernel, olive kernel, melon seed kernel and sesame kernel, are used as fillings, with thin skin and large stuffing, rich nutrition and healthy color.

The above ten kinds of moon cakes are my favorite!