HANOI, Oct. 3 -- Queues at makeshift stalls selling mooncakes, a harbinger of the approaching Mid-Autumn Festival, are not as long as in previous years, partly due to the economic slowdown, and partly because more and more Vietnamese are opting for Hong Kong-style bakery products.
"For many years, I have chosen Vietnamese traditional mooncakes, which are fairly simple and very sweet, for the festival, but today I am changing my mind," Nguyen Thi Hien, a post office clerk in Hanoi, said on Monday, while standing in front of three colorful mooncake stalls on the campus of the Mipec Tower trade center in Hanoi.
"I want my family to try Hong Kong-style mooncakes, which are said to be not only trendy, but also tasty. Moderately sweet, to be exact," the full-figured, middle-aged woman said, lifting up a red square box for consideration.
The red box contains one big mooncake and seven smaller ones. The shop assistant told the potential buyer that the set of mooncakes is named "Tinh Te" (Delicacy), and they are filled with powdered egg, salted egg, oolong tea, green tea, white lotus, red beans, green beans and durian.
After a few minutes of carefully examining the elegant box, tentatively listening to the shop assistant's explanation, and finally departing with 850,000 Vietnamese dong (37.6 U.S. dollars) in cash, the woman left with the cakes, mumbling "I am getting my money's worth."
"Hong Kong-style mooncakes have won the heart of more and more Vietnamese gourmets because they are not too sweet; very suitable to increasingly bigger numbers of health-conscious people here," Nguyen Van Tho, chief customer officer of local firm Maison, told Xinhua recently.
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