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What's the taste of moon cakes?

There are four kinds of moon cakes: sweet, salty, salty and spicy. The varieties are as follows:

1, lotus seed cake: it is the most common moon cake on the market. It is a classic variety of Mid-Autumn moon cakes, with thin skin, loose oil, smooth and sweet stuffing and deep sweetness.

2. Fresh meat moon cakes: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai specialty snacks. As the name implies, the stuffing is completely composed of a mass of fresh meat, with crispy skin and some tough and rich gravy slowly infiltrating into it.

3. Chestnut moon cake: Chestnut is the main raw material for stuffing. Chestnut is rich in starch and minerals, but its fat content is lower than other nuts, which is relatively healthier.

4. Bean paste moon cake: Steamed red beans, mashed, fried with white sugar, and made into the stuffing of bean paste moon cake. The bean paste moon cake tastes equally good, and the bean flavor is rich, without the uncomfortable feeling that other moon cakes swallow and stick to their throats.

5. Five-kernel moon cakes: The so-called five kernels are not just five kinds, but are made of many different raw materials, generally including walnut kernels, peanut kernels, pine kernels and sesame kernels. , meaning "complete harmony".

6. Ham moon cake: Xuanwei ham, a specialty of Yunnan, is used as raw material, with honey, lard and sugar as stuffing, and purple wheat flour from Chenggong, Kunming as skin. Its surface is golden yellow or brownish red, with a hard shell outside, oily and gorgeous, and a thousand layers of pastry wrapped in stuffing.