Jade Buddha Temple begins cooking seasonal vegetarian mooncakes after abbot blessing

By Yang Jian | July 20, 2016, Wednesday |

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SHANGHAI’S Jade Buddha Temple began cooking its popular vegetarian mooncake today after the temple’s abbot blessed the traditional Mid-autumn Festival food.

About 4 million mooncakes in over 20 flavors will be made in the next 50 days this year by about 170 senior cookers, including many who have been making mooncakes in the temple for over three decades, said Huang Zhiliang, general manager with the vegetarian food company of the temple.

The traditional Suzhou and Cantonese style mooncakes are being made through stuff making, modeling and baking that can hardly be produced by machines, Huang said.

More simply packed mooncakes, about 20 percent more than that of last year, will be made this year as fewer people are buying the mooncakes as gifts under the nation’s frugality campaign, but buy to eat themselves, he added.

The temple has a 30-year tradition of making mooncakes for the Mid-autumn Festival that falls on September 15 this year.

The temple’s abbot and senior monks bless the mooncakes, and people believe they will bring good luck. The mooncakes are available in the temple and supermarkets across the city from today.

For the overseas market, most buyers are overseas Chinese and foreign visitors to the temple on Jiangning Road in Putuo District which receives millions of foreign tourists every year, according to Huang.

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Jade Buddha Temple begins cooking seasonal vegetarian mooncakes after abbot blessing

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