by Zoe Li
Mooncakes: can't avoid 'em, can't eat 'em.
The traditional pastry eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival can have up to 1,000 calories per piece and most Chinese people admit that they don't even like the flavor.
According to Green Power, each Hong Kong family bought three boxes of mooncakes on average last year, but they discarded a total of 2.5 million mooncakes.
As CNNGo China editor Tracy You puts it: "It's just something I do because I'm Chinese, not because I like them."
So why is Hong Kong and mainland China caught up in mooncake madness every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
read more