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Time to buy mooncakes: Mid-Autumn Festival
brett:
Talking of mooncakes, has anyone used chnlove to send mooncakes to their lady? I am not sure if I would get praised by my beloved for sending her some, or scolded for wasting money (I'm visiting her in October). The chnlove mooncakes are fairly expensive at $58. However, my beloved tells me they're about $20 in her town, and they are nearly $40 in London's China Town.
I'm not sure how good the chnlove cakes are either, I'm aware from my visit to Hong Kong that people will pay ridiculous prices for the highest quality cakes :icon_confused:.
Who knows if the cakes would ever arrive either, I sent an airmail parcel from the UK and it hasn't reached her yet :@.
David5o:
Brett,
Wow!! 20 dollars in China, they must have well gone up since i was there. ...that or she is talking about one of the big one's ... If you think paying 3x the price in China is a sensible thing to do, then by all means send them. As the Agency will be posting /delivering your package, the likely-hood of being delivered to her is Very Good!!....
David....
Paul Todd:
I ate my first mooncake today. Cost 2yuan from a stall in the fruit and veg market, not bad at all. I have seen presentation box's in the local supermarket for 238 yuan. I was talking to the brother inlaw yesterday who was outraged that Haggen Dazs are now making mooncakes for sale in China. Must be money in it for the big guy's to get involved.
David5o:
Arnold,
Wow!! do something with that wall, makes it look like your living in a prison compound!! haha!!.
The salts are leeching out of the mortar too, and staining your wall block's. I think the buggers used unwashed sand, we have the same problem over here...lol!!
Apart from that .... the moon looks great!! ...lol!!
David...
Willy The Londoner:
I am having a trip back to London today and will be staying there during the Autumn Festival. I have been given so many Moon Cakes to take back with me that I am sure I will be done for excess baggage!!
Paul is right the best ones are individual and sold in Markets. Anyone who has never seen the commercial preparation for the Autumn Festival will be astonished to see upmarket department stores setting up massive market stalls outside their stores just to sell Moon Cakes.
Willy
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