Weird Mooncakes and Their Paper Packaging Boxes

As Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, you might have bought many mooncakes. If you have had enough of conventional flavored mooncakes, these odd ones might result in something different and new, if not something that tastes good.

Let's have a look at the 12 weirdest mooncakes.

12. Mooncake with crawfish filling

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As a new creation in 2016, the crawfish mooncake has drawn a lot of attention on the internet. Often there are four crawfish, some abalone mushrooms and vegetables in one cake.

11. Canned mooncakes

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This weird innovation first appeared in 2014 to preserve mooncakes. A netizen offered the recipe to make the canned treats. Put mooncakes in a jar with 3/4 part liquor and 1/4 part vinegar, and then put some slices of ginger on top.

9. Sour and spicy mooncake

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The sourness of the mooncake filling is from pickled vegetables and hawthorns. The spiciness is made from a chilli sauce resembling to the famous brand Lao Gan Ma.

8. Fermented bean curd mooncake

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This is a variant of a kind of pastry made with fermented bean curd popular in Chaoshan, Guangdong province. The pastry is usually used as a sacrificial offering by local people on the first day and the middle day of each month.

7. Mooncake with fillings of cream, truffle and foie gras

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The "Louis Vuttion" of mooncakes is made with expensive ingredients of truffle and foie gras. This luxurious mooncake definitely deserves a bite.

6. Mooncake with leek egg filling

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Scrambled egg is a popular filling for Chinese Jiaozi (dumpling). But for the first time, scrambled egg is being used for the traditional Mid-Autumn day dessert.

5. "Shiren" mooncake

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"Shiren" mooncakes have 10 kinds of nuts, doubling the traditional "Wuren" mooncake with 5 kinds of nuts. It's four to six times larger than traditional mooncakes, and implies best wishes of "perfect in every respect".

4. Mooncake stuffed with braised pork and preserved vegetable in soya sauce

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Braised pork with preserved vegetable in soya sauce, or "meicai kourou" is a famous Chinese dish. The one made this special filling for mooncake must be a super fan of this dish.

3. Bamboo charcoal mooncake

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This mooncake is made by putting bamboo charcoal powder into the mooncake when baking. It's said to have the function of absorbing toxins inside our bodies.

2. Instant noodle mooncake

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Putting instant noodles into the traditional mooncake will surely give you a special experience. The mooncakes are also marked with Chinese characters, "Diao Si", which means "underprivileged losers" in a self-mocking way.

1. Mooncakes with bean-taste filling fried with tomatoes

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The canteen of Civil Aviation University of China had put forward a dish which fried mooncake pieces stuffed with sweet bean taste and tomatoes before decorating them with caraway. The dish became a hit on the Internet and is called the weirdest mooncakes.

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