Cantonese Mooncake Craft

The craft of Cantonese mooncake making is a traditional Lingnan pastry art centered on Guangzhou, made for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A syrup-based dough is shaped around fillings such as lotus paste, red bean, mixed nuts and salted egg yolk, pressed in carved molds and baked to a thin crust with crisp patterns.

Cantonese mooncake making is provincial-level intangible cultural heritage and the heart of the region's Mid-Autumn food custom.

In Guangzhou you can learn the mooncake-making tradition at time-honored pastry houses and seasonal displays.