Mid-Autumn Festival is fast approaching on September 10, and Asian supermarkets are selling mooncakes now.
The ones I saw at H-Mart are starting from CAD$64 for traditional lotus seed paste with salted duck yolks, to CAD$84 for ones with mixed nuts.
However probably the most luxe ones are The Peninsula Hong Kong's which have finally made their way across the Pacific.
But you have to pay the luxe prices for it if you're dying for those famous egg custard mooncakes with a western pastry.
At Holt Renfrew, the Barney's of Canada, they cost CAD$118 to $180, but now I see at T&T Supermarket they're starting at CAD$99...
In Hong Kong at the Peninsula Boutique, the eight-piece mooncake box is HK$448 (CAD$74).
Shipping, inflation... highway robbery... any other reasons?
It will be very interesting to see if they sell out with mainland Chinese residents snapping them up -- or not.
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