What ABCs don't understand is that Mooncakes are basically used as a flex in most of Asia. Both for the gifter and the receiver. No one really cares how it tastes.
My girlfriend sent me a photo of this and joked that this is what social capital looks like. But she's right. Not everyone cares, but for those that do a photo of mooncakes from Ultraviolet (most exp rest in SH, starts from 700pp) is a lot of fucking clout points.
You can't even buy them if you wanted to, it's a gift from the restaurant. Which makes shit like that all the more valuable in social terms.
Mooncakes as a gift are an implicit signal from one party to another that you are important enough to me that I'm willing to spend X amount of dollars on you and I hope you will repay in the future. The entire festival is a social construct to support this.
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