Mooncake Gift Box
$300 play money
A gift box of mooncakes for the mid-autumn table. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $300 in play money, which puts it in the Luxury tier ($250 to $1,999). It is one of the big treats on the menu.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- Chinese
- Menu section
- Chinese
- Price tier
- Luxury ($250 to $1,999)
- Play-money price
- $300
- Main ingredients
- pastry, lotus seed paste, salted egg yolk
- How it is served
- An open plain red and gold gift box holding eight round golden mooncakes with embossed floral tops
History, tradition and origin
Mooncakes are given and shared at the mid-autumn festival, when families gather to look at the full moon. In Japan, soft rice cakes are pounded for the new year, and sweets are made to match each season and to accompany green tea. A fine sponge cake brought by Portuguese traders in the 1500s became a speciality of Nagasaki.
Food economy and industry
Mooncakes are a seasonal business worth billions of dollars, with most sales packed into a few weeks and much of it corporate gifting in decorated boxes. Japan's traditional sweet makers are often family firms many generations old. Key ingredients are glutinous rice, red beans, lotus seeds and sugar.
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