Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes are hot commodities, and merchants in the market have launched a variety of commodity mooncakes. The reporter found in the interview that in this year's mooncake market, the handmade Lanzhou mooncake was quietly sold and became the new favorite of the mid-autumn festival mooncake.
Old Lanzhou mille-feuille mooncake
On average, about 200 are made per day
"Boss, buy 4 moon cakes." "There is no more today, only the day after tomorrow." On September 15, Zhang Ruihao's steamed bun shop in Gaolan County, where he and his wife were making mooncakes while receiving customers. Although the store is full of handmade mille-feuille mooncakes, the customers in front of the store are full of doors, but the customers can't get the mooncakes that day. Handmade mooncakes are so tight? In the face of the reporter's questions, Zhang Rui said with a smile: "The mooncakes made today have been booked, and the mooncakes made tomorrow have also been booked by a customer, and the customer has ordered 400, tomorrow they have to do it early, otherwise they can't do it." ”
Zhang Ruihao makes a mille-feuille mooncake that is known as Lanzhou's "earth moon cake". This mooncake is handmade, the raw materials are also original, in addition to flour, but also with turmeric, red yeast, green koji, bitter bean flour, sesame oil, rose sauce and so on.
Zhang Ruihao said that he has been making mooncakes in a steamed bun shop for 10 years, "This year, I started to make it a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, making an average of about 200 a day, and it is estimated that it will end before the National Day." In Gaolan County, the reporter saw that almost all the steamed bun shops were making mille-feuille mooncakes, and the family's life was very prosperous. Zhang Ruihao said that there are more than 60 shops making mooncakes in Gaolan County alone.
For this kind of "earthy popularity", Lanzhou local culture researcher Kong Xiangkui said: "The old Lanzhou mille-feuille mooncake is hot, and the old tradition overcomes the new trend, indicating that first, with the continuous popularization and deepening of the concept of health, people have begun to pay attention to low-sugar, low-oil healthy food, Lanzhou traditional month just meets this demand; second, compared with the new tide mooncakes with hundreds of thousands of yuan prices, Lanzhou traditional mooncakes can be described as inexpensive; third, a large number of Lanzhou local cultural inheritors never slackened the appeal, finally played a role and saw results. ”
Oil pot helmet shop traditional mooncakes
Customers start queuing up from four or five in the morning
On September 16, at the Zhangye Road Vegetable Market, a traditional mooncake made by an oil pot helmet shop can only be described by a "fire" word. Customers who come to this store to buy mooncakes have been lining up since four or five o'clock in the morning, and the number of mooncakes sold in a single day exceeds 10,000.
In order to take care of these queued customers, the store has placed some benches at the door, so that you can sit down after standing for a long time, and the store also provides free mineral water for customers. The owner told reporters that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and they start making it from midnight every day in order to catch up with the mooncakes of the day, and there are customers queuing at four or five o'clock in the morning. The shop can make 90 mooncakes at a time with 6 pots, but even then it is difficult to meet the strong demand of customers. In the queue, an aunt told reporters that she had been queuing since 8 a.m., had been in line for 3 hours, and estimated that she would be able to buy mooncakes in another 30 minutes, and she planned to buy 200 yuan of mooncakes to send to her sister in Tianjin.
This shop specializes in traditional five-kernel mooncakes, rose mooncakes and so on. The reporter saw that there were seven or eight people in the store who were busy, and the mooncakes that had just come out of the pot were very attractive, and many customers were buying mooncakes of more than 100 yuan at a time. (Reporters Peng Weiguo, Gan Lin, Qu Xuezhong, Yu Yongzhao, text/photo)