China News Service, August 19. According to the US "World Daily" report, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and moon cakes can be seen everywhere in Chinese supermarkets in Los Angeles. The inflation caused by the epidemic has caused many moon cake prices to be higher than before. All kinds of new ideas to buy moon cakes.

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals for Chinese in the United States every year. Even if they are in a foreign land, they usually invite relatives and friends to gather together and send their blessings with moon cakes as gifts. Therefore, moon cakes have also become one of the best-selling products in major Chinese supermarkets.

But affected by inflation, the price of moon cakes this year feels unaffordable.

　　Ms. Wang, who lives in Rosmeet, said that she buys about 20 boxes of mooncakes as holiday gifts every Mid-Autumn Festival, but the price of mooncakes this year is significantly higher than before.

For example, the Hong Kong Maxim’s Milky Cream Mooncake, which is loved by the Chinese, was only 59 yuan (USD, the same below) in previous years. This year, the Maxim’s mooncake in Chinese supermarkets has risen to 79 yuan, and even some mooncake merchants have to pay for the packaging bag. Extra charge.

　　Because the selling price of moon cakes is too high, she buys moon cakes by group purchase and direct mail.

She joined a moon cake group buying group, and all the members in the group needed to buy moon cakes.

For example, the most popular Hong Kong Meixin Liuxin Custard Mooncake, according to the statistics in the group, there are about 30 boxes.

The fastest time to arrive by air is about one week, and the slowest is about two weeks. Usually, the shelf life of moon cakes is about three months, so they are still "fresh and hot" after they arrive.

The price of mooncakes plus air freight costs about 50 yuan per box of Maxim's mooncakes, which is much cheaper than the 79 yuan in Chinese supermarkets.

　　Ms. Liu, who lives in Donggu, said that she buys mooncakes for her clients and relatives every year. Although the styles of mooncakes in Chinese supermarkets have emerged in an endless stream in recent years, there are also many styles that you want to buy but cannot buy.

There are many niche mooncakes in China that are well received, such as the popular matcha mooncakes, Inner Mongolia cheese mooncakes and Fujian specialty Hokkien mooncakes, etc. If these "scarce" mooncakes can be eaten in foreign countries, it will not only allow everyone to have a taste , can also express one's mind.

　　Ms. Liu added that, with careful budgeting, these types of mooncakes are relatively cheap to buy from China.

For example, Guancha Matcha Liuxin Mooncake, which has been popular in China recently, is priced at 149 yuan (about US$22) per box on Taobao.

Because I wanted to buy a few more boxes, I bought it with my friends in a group buy, plus the air freight price, the price of a single box was less than 30 US dollars, which can be said to be very affordable.

(Golden Victor)