Which brand of moon cakes are delicious? How to choose Mid-Autumn moon cakes?

Did everyone buy the moon cakes they wanted for the Mid-Autumn Festival? In fact, every Mid-Autumn Festival, many people buy moon cakes as gifts. Of course, they also have their own food. So which one tastes better? Let's have a look.

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1) It is no exaggeration to say that 95% of moon cakes on the market are not worth buying; 99% of hotel moon cakes are not worth buying.

For example, most of the Cantonese-style moon cakes in Hangzhou Hotel (like other cities) are contracted by Guangzhou Restaurant.

Since they are all processed moon cakes, why not buy them directly from Guangzhou restaurant?

How to judge whether moon cakes are processed on behalf of others? It's clearly written on the box, in black and white.

2) Most moon cakes contain many additives.

For most moon cakes, there must be preservatives in the stuffing, because the stuffing has high water content and requires a long shelf life. Without preservatives, the shelf life may only be a few days, so it cannot be sold.

Although there is no clear relationship between eating preservatives and health, it is recommended that you try to eat moon cakes with short shelf life and no additives.

The moon cakes bought are basically only valid for 3-7 days. Also, look at the ingredient list. You can tell whether there are additives at a glance.

How to choose

1) Find out whether to give it away or eat it yourself.

The moon cakes you gave away are completely different from those you ate yourself. The moon cakes you send should have a high face value and a beautiful gift box, which is unique.

The best moon cake I received was donated by Marriott and the Forbidden City. This box looks like a jewelry box.

Of course, this should be to send a bad friend. Or he doesn't know your friends.

If you send some friends about good friends, you will choose some handmade, ready-made and delicious ones.

For example, Shanghai Andashi bought a bunch of fresh meat moon cakes, which are cost-effective and delicious. It's just a courier. Shelf life is too short.

Compared with fancy moon cakes, Andaz's fresh meat moon cakes win with spicy and salty taste. Everyone loves to queue up to buy fresh food. Delicious definitely means: eat while it's hot!

But if you are an unfamiliar friend, you give him such a simple package, and then a box of eight moon cakes only costs 60 yuan, the other party may think you are particularly stingy.

If the other person has a good relationship and knows how to eat at the same time, buy him a Rong Yue.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the best mooncake, and it is definitely the Rong Yue of Guangzhou Big Brother Restaurant. Although the full moon is not cheap, four moon cakes cost 188 (tangerine peel, red bean paste, moon), and the expensive one costs 398 (lard, red bean paste, ginger, gold and silver moon).

But after all, the bean paste made by Rong Yue himself has not been added. The key is to stick to it year after year. Many people think it's the smell of moon cakes when they were children. I can't buy Rong Yue this year. Please hurry up next year if you want to eat.

If you eat it yourself, you don't care about the packaging at all. More than half of the cost of many moon cakes is spent on packaging. I don't care so much about the shelf life of moon cakes. The shorter the shelf life, the more additives and preservatives. The moon cakes I eat are basically made, sold and eaten now, and the validity period is no more than 3 days.

2) Choose a taste that suits you.

Traditional moon cakes are divided into four schools, namely, Beijing style, Guangzhou style, Suzhou style and Yunnan style, each with its own characteristics and flavor.

Most people eat Cantonese and Soviet styles.

Cantonese moon cakes are full of the connotation of Cantonese moon cakes, which are characterized by heavy oil, thin skin and many fillings.

Su-style moon cakes are actually called shortcakes, and layers of pastry must be the essence of shortcakes. Pay attention to manual production, not machine production. The dough should be kneaded and freshly baked.

Mooncakes with Yunnan flavor are filled with ham and pine nuts with Yunnan flavor, and the stuffing is salty and sweet.

Beijing moon cakes are characterized by moderate sweetness, moderate filling ratio, and a large amount of sesame oil, which tastes sweet and crisp.

Su-style moon cakes are easy to eat in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. In Suzhou, meat and moon cakes were born together. Meat moon cakes, hairy crabs and osmanthus flowers make up the autumn in Suzhou.

I feel it's time to go to Suzhou.

Do you want a machine or a hand? To the original factory or to process it?

People who know moon cakes must know that the mini cream in Hong Kong Peninsula is already delicious. But compared with the mini milky moon cake in Jialinlou, a Chinese restaurant, it is slag.

Why? The ordinary mini cream yellow on the peninsula is mass-produced by machines; But the mini cream in Jialinlou is handmade.

Master's manpower is limited, and it is the limit to produce 40 thousand boxes of moon cakes a year. If you want to buy it, you can only shake the number online and raise it offline.

So why are so many hotels unwilling to make handmade moon cakes? Because there is no money to earn. Zi Xuan's black truffle moon cakes with fresh meat are tall enough, with a box of six talents 128. Shanghai Andashi sells a box of eight fresh meat moon cakes to 60 yuan.

Selling 10 boxes is not necessarily more profitable than selling a box of Cantonese-style moon cakes processed on behalf of others.

In addition, the mooncakes made now have a short shelf life, so it is absolutely thankless to make handmade mooncakes yourself.

Many hotels and star-rated hotels don't have moon cakes from their own kitchens, but from food manufacturers. Basically, they are looking for restaurants in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou restaurant has its own three-inch golden lotus production base and duck egg yolk production base. The income of restaurants is far from making money by processing moon cakes.

So most moon cakes really cost money to buy a box. In that case, why not just buy moon cakes from Guangzhou restaurant? Mooncakes in Guangzhou restaurants can also be sold directly to consumers.

4) When making moon cakes, restaurants are often more reliable than hotels.

The best mooncake in the past was Rong Yue produced by Guangzhou Big Brother Restaurant. At present, the best mooncake this year is abalone mooncake in Guangzhou, produced by Guangzhou Restaurant in Shanghai.

There is a restaurant in Shanghai that is very good at cooking local dishes, called Shanghai Beach. Every year, several exquisite Mid-Autumn moon cakes are introduced, such as Suzhou-style fresh meat and Cantonese-style bird's nest moon cakes, which are all liked by Shanghainese.

Whenever I want to eat moon cakes with Yunnan flavor, I will not only ask my friends to help me find Guanshengyuan and Jiahua, but also go to this Yunnan cuisine restaurant and forget all about it. The Kerry Center opened here in Hangzhou, and their moon cakes with cloud legs are quite good.

It is not so easy to eat Yunnan-style moon cakes in Hangzhou.

Even in the same hotel, restaurant products are more authentic than hotel products. For example, Xiang in Hangzhou and Cantonese-style moon cakes sold in hotels are processed on behalf of others. They have no characteristics. The color of the staple food is given by the spicy group.

However, China Restaurant City sells fresh mustard tuber and dried plums to every 8 yuan. You can buy them at a stall in China restaurant instead of eating them in the lobby. Much more reliable than the hotel, and the cost performance is also high.

5) Old moon cakes from all over the world are actually not bad.

In fact, I prefer time-honored mooncakes to those processed on behalf of others or those of some online celebrities. Old moon cakes are cost-effective and delicious.

Take Hangzhou as an example. You can buy mustard tuber and fresh meat in September. Life in September is not an old brand. Mainly distributed in many places. Occasionally passing by Jiuzhizhai and Wang Baolai, I will also buy them. During the moon cake season in these two stores, queues often appear.

Which moon cake is delicious?

Recommend several time-honored brands worthy of recommendation.

Shanghai, Guangming Village Restaurant, Changchun Food Store, Laoda Factory, Laoda Room.

Hangzhou, Jiuzhizhai, Wang Baolai

Suzhou's program building often delivers cakes and vegetarian meals.

Beijing, Beijing big three yuan

Guangzhou, Lianxianglou, Guangzhou Restaurant

Yunnan, Jiahua, Guanshengyuan

Jialin Building, Huang Yue Peninsula, Yuen Long

Cantonese style, the only choice is Rong Yue Big Brother Restaurant. After eating Rong Yue, you can eat other Cantonese-style moon cakes, which are really dross. But the biggest problem in Rong Yue is that the output is too small, and it will peak every year.