Walked about in the mall and it's so charmingly decorated with stalls selling mooncakes and chinese lanterns, in anticipation of the upcoming Mid Autumn Festival. Though most stalls are dimly lit with orange lightings, the colours of the paper or plastic lanterns bring out the oriental charm.
The mooncake packages get better each year. Sometimes I wonder if people buy a certain brand because of the packaging or because the cakes are better. I have a feeling it's the former. Most cakes are probably produced by the same manufacturer anyways and branded differently afterwards. I'm thinking maybe the packaging costs a lot more than the actual cakes.
Along with the trend of boxes that these cakes come in, the cakes themselves have a steady stream of growth in the flavours they come in year after year. Nowadays it's quite the norm to have pandan, chocolate and yam flavoured mooncakes. This year I've seen some cakes that come in multiple layers of different colours. Probably a mix of a few flavours.
As for the lanterns, I just love the paper ones. They make great decoration pieces if nothing else. I don't like lighting the candles in them though since I'm bad at it and might end up burning the entire lantern. The wonderful thing is that I still get to enjoy the beauty of them when my neighbours light up and hang up lanterns in their gardens!
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