What is a mooncake and what are its characteristics?

? Mooncake, also known as moon ball, harvest cake, reunion cake, etc., is one of the traditional Han cuisine in China. Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god.

? China's mooncake varieties, according to the origin: Beijing-style mooncakes, Cantonese mooncakes, Soviet-style mooncakes, Taiwanese mooncakes, Dian-style mooncakes, Hong Kong-style mooncakes, Chao-style mooncakes, Hui-style mooncakes, Qu-style mooncakes, Qin-style mooncakes, and even Japanese, etc.; according to the taste of: there are sweet, salty, savory, salty-sweet, spicy; from the heart of the fillings, there are osmanthus mooncakes, dried plum mooncakes, five kernels, bean paste, sugar, black sesame, egg yolk mooncakes, etc.; according to the cake Skin points: there are pulp skin, mixed sugar skin, pastry, cream skin; from the shape of the surface and lace points.

1, Cantonese mooncake: thin skin, fluffy, sweet, filling;

2, Soviet-style mooncakes: crispy, crispy, layers of crispy stacked, heavy oil, but not greasy, sweet and salty;

3, Chiu Chow-style mooncakes: heavy oil, heavy sugar, soft texture;

4, Yunnan-style mooncakes: Dian-style mooncakes, mainly originated in Yunnan, Guizhou and the surrounding areas, and is now gradually being liked by consumers in other regions. Consumers in other regions like, its main feature is loose crust, filling salty and sweet taste, there is a unique Dian-style fragrance, the main product is Kunming Jiqingxiang production of moon cakes.

5, Hui-style moon cakes: its skin is shortening skin, made of top quality flour and veggie oil mixing process, the cake flame using wild vegetables (bitter board vegetables), after pickling process, mixed with sugar and become. The main representative is "dried plum mooncake". Other help style mooncakes relatively small amount, "every year the Mid-Autumn Festival bright moon night, year after year mooncakes are different," in recent years, new styles of mooncakes are emerging in an endless stream. Such as iced moon cakes, fruit and vegetable moon cakes, seafood moon cakes, coconut milk moon cakes, tea moon cakes.