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Mooncakes have become the main icon of the Mid-Autumn festival. A festival without these cakes just wouldn’t be the same. Originally filled with a paste, mooncakes have changed with time to include the most “outlandish” ingredients. Although the original paste filling is still preferred by many, it is not uncommon to find new outrageous flavors introduced to the public every year. Bakers may have been laughed at for their creative flavors years ago, but today, bakers are actually encouraged to be inventive and creative to draw the interest of the younger generation. These new innovative flavors are not cheap though, and neither are the fancy boxes these cakes are packed in. Some of these boxes may actually value more than the mooncakes themselves. It has become important for producers to create some type of box consumers can keep after all the cakes are gone. Boxes have ranged from wood and tin, to jewelry and music boxes. Despite a dislike for mooncakes or costliness, people have bought these mooncakes for the resplendent and sometimes unusual boxes..
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