Bad Cake.

There's a phrase that I at one point used with regularity around these parts: zao gao, meaning literally bad cake.  This time of year sees the surfacing of (what I deem to be) bad cakes.  Westerners have their fruitcake; locals have their mooncake.  Packaged in fancy boxes, they disguise a strange concoction that comprises the filling of these cakes (see left).  At present I have bad cakes a-plenty (though I managed to rid of 2 boxes).  To my credit, AC doesn't like them either.  I mean, who wants bad cake?  

Maybe I'm too harsh.  Not all mooncake is bad.  But let the eater beware.  There are bad cakes out there.

Thus concludes my very literal entry.