Do Chinese make or buy mooncakes during mid-autumn nowadays?

[stevenjac]

Is "making" a mooncake a still tradition in China?

[Kenny同志]

No, we buy mooncakes from shops or supermarkets.

[889]

Mooncakes are sort of like Peking Duck: something not normally made at home. Apart from the difficulty of making the stuff, traditionally Chinese homes don't have ovens.

[anonymoose]

Usually receive them as gifts, and then pass them on as gifts as necessary.

[ChTTay]

I've had a homemade one and it was way better than the shop ones. I've never had a moon cake I've liked otherwise.

I've heard good things about Starbucks moon cakes. Maybe that's because they use more contemporary flavours like chocolate

[zhouhaochen]

Almost all the moon cakes are bought from shops and I hated them all my life....until one day I was actually given a box of homemade ones. They were outstanding!

 

So unfortunately people buy them from shops and they are poor quality, probably because it is just faster and easier, I however support all efforts to revive the self making concept - the taste is so much better. Unfortunately the guy I got them from two years ago moved away from Beijing

[Zeppa]

Madame Huang's blog describes how to make moon cakes, one way at least:

 

http://carolynjphillips.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/its-moon-cake-time.html

[lips]

Starbucks' "mooncakes" are in name only, like Häagen-Dazs'.

[EmilieY]

Is there a most famous brand for mooncakes? 

[anonymoose]

杏花楼 is quite famous in Shanghai.

[EmilieY]

Thank you! 

[xuefang]

In my Chinese family they also buy moon cakes from shops and never make them. It's common to get moon cakes as a gift, on some years you can get a lot of gift packages with moon cakes. During recent years the 冰皮月饼 have been really popular, they are swear and more like a Western dessert with lots of flavors to choose from.