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Why black five kernel moon cake

Five-kernel mooncake is black is disliked by millions of people, because he is ordinary but high cost, because he is traditional and no novelty, because he silently accompanied generation after generation of people over the Mid-Autumn Festival or bleak or reunion.

Five kernel mooncake, melon is melon, peanuts is peanuts, walnuts is walnuts, icing sugar is icing sugar, how to break open to see how can not be fake. The more you look at it, the more you'll be "betrayed".

In the north and guangdong guangxi region, most of the people moon cake preferred flavor is still five kernel. Five kernel moon cake is the most famous moon cake, because the filling has almonds, peach kernels, peanut kernels, hemp kernels and melon seeds kernels and named. It is characterized by elaborate ingredients, thin skin with a lot of filling, delicious taste, unbreakable, easy to carry, etc. Pure five-kernel mooncake is actually the more you chew the more fragrant.

Lotus paste can be made with potatoes and flavoring, bean paste can be made with coffee grounds and flavoring, coconut can be made with bad fruit residue flavoring and coffee grounds, a variety of fruit mooncakes can be made with pumpkin with flavoring, and even black sesame mooncakes can not necessarily guarantee that they are not dyed sesame seeds. On the market with low-priced nuts made of "lack of heart" five kernel moon cake, need to pull out of the clouds to see the sky.

Many of my friends believe that the five kernel mooncake almonds, walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds and melon seeds mixed together, sweet but not sweet and salty but not salty, the feeling of eating in the mouth is "salty and dry", just like eating rice biting into the sand of the same uncomfortable, it is simply a torture of the tastebuds.

Here is an argument - the youth asked the Zen master: "Faye Wong, Li Yapeng, Zhou Xun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse are all single, the stars of the individual is very dazzling, why not together? The Zen master took out a dish of sesame seeds, a dish of peanuts, a dish of melon seeds, a dish of walnuts, and a dish of almonds for the youth to taste individually and asked him, "Is it good?" The youth nodded. The Zen master took out another piece of five-kernel mooncake for the youth to taste, and the youth spit out a sudden realization ......