Due to the severe impact of the prolonged Covid-19 epidemic, the 2021 moon cake trend also has many changes compared to last year, specifically the following 3 trends:
1. Make handmade moon cakes at home
Mid-Autumn Festival is the Reunion Festival, this is the time when the Moon cake market takes over. But this year, due to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, the trend of making handmade moon cakes at home is quite popular. There are many online courses teaching how to make moon cakes at home to serve skillful housewives who want to make their own moon cakes for the whole family to enjoy during the pandemic to learn and follow.
Unlike moon cakes produced by large companies, handmade moon cakes are often made on a small scale because families or small spontaneous bakeries tend to make these handmade moon cakes.
Handmade Mooncakes often have diverse designs. Not only is it white, yellow and patterned like traditional cakes, but just a few changes in design or ingredients will produce a different finished product. Especially with this baking trend, you can unleash your creativity according to your own ideas.
If you do Moon cake 2021 Following the handmade trend, you can create the ingredients, crust, and filling yourself according to your family’s needs and preferences. Instead of traditional fillings such as green beans and mixed rice, you can make your own filling with coconut milk, taro, red beans, green tea or any available ingredients in your refrigerator during the pandemic season.
Besides, the price of handmade moon cakes at home is also cheaper than buying them on the market, especially in the stressful epidemic situation, prices of everything are increasing, not to mention the price of moon cakes in 2021.
The trend of making handmade moon cakes during the epidemic season
Having a unique flavor and being a specialty cake of Soc Trang, pia cake is now very popular and is even given as a gift instead of moon cake on Tet Reunion.
Pia cake is not only popular domestically but it is also exported abroad. With a delicious and fatty flavor that penetrates deep into each layer of cake, blending with green bean filling, salted egg and durian. This is the perfect combination, making diners unable to forget its flavor.
Because of the ongoing epidemic, many families who cannot buy moon cakes will tend to choose to buy pia cake instead of moon cakes because of its convenience, ease of purchase at grocery stores, supermarkets, and price. also cheaper.
Although the price of pia cake is cheaper than the price of moon cakes, the quality is not inferior, especially for those who are die-hard fans of melancholy-flavored moon cakes. Pia cake also has many different flavors, so each flavor will have its own characteristics, so you don’t have to worry about getting bored of eating pia cake during Tet Reunion.
Use Pia cake instead of moon cake during the epidemic season
3. Trend of making traditional Moon cakes
Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, importing raw materials for making Moon cakes has become difficult. Domestic raw materials are also scarce and difficult to find. Large and small businesses specializing in the production of moon cakes are having to stop production or produce moderately based on pre-orders, so diversifying flavors is also very difficult, so traditional flavors are still the number 1 priority from manufacturers. Ingredients available in the country such as: mixed beans, green beans, red beans, salted eggs…
With the trend of integration, people are gradually caught up in the cycle of worries and chaos of life. We need to balance the material, spiritual and traditional values of our homeland. Because of the harmonious development of society and life, the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner table also becomes richer, with more strange dishes. No matter how much integration there is, the traditional moon cake with a simple flavor that resembles the soul of the Vietnamese people is indispensable.
Out there, the Covid-19 pandemic is raging, everyone has to constantly stay at home, so people gradually understand each other better and live more slowly. Since then, on this Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional moon cake trend has become more prominent.
Not too luxurious in form and luxurious in taste. Traditional Moon Cakes have the bold flavors of ingredients close and familiar to Vietnamese people, culture, and cuisine. The trend of making special traditional Moon cakes with fillings: green beans, lotus seeds, pork, jams… Traditional fillings combined with a soft, thin outer crust, when baked, will emit a characteristic scent that makes stimulates the taste buds of many people.
Not simply bringing a rustic, familiar flavor. Traditional moon cakes are also made by hand by artisans or your own family members and do not need to be made with modern machinery. That’s why the traditional moon cake still contains so much enthusiasm and affection that the maker sends to the people who will enjoy it.
Traditional Moon Cake
Mid-Autumn Festival is a period of beautiful memories for Vietnamese people. So to ensure the safety of yourself and your family, you should not go out during this epidemic season, just spending time with your family is enough. Websosanh.vn would like to send best wishes to everyone on this special occasion! Wishing you and your family a happy and joyful Tet holiday!
