Unlike what happened in the past few year when the public was complaining about the excessively packaged, most moon cakes available in markets are of much cheaper price this year, ranging from one to several hundred yuan.
However, that doesn't mean expensive gift package have gone.
At a high-end hotel in Beijing, one of the moon cake gift packages is priced at nearly 1,700 yuan. What kind of moon cakes are in this box? The sales girl says:
"It has a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates, some olive oil, good tea, nuts, plus 8 moon cakes."
At another hotel, a gift package is priced at 2,000 yuan. A particular caterpillar fungus, a very expensive traditional Chinese medicine, is attached to the top of
