Vietnamese cake producers will offer around 8,000-8,500 tons of moon-cakes to this middle autumn festival, which will fall on Sep 25 this year, local media reported.
The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of lunar year.
The figure showed an on year rise of over 30 per cent compared with last festival.
Price of the moon-cake will obviously soar due to increased material price.
Kinh Do Confectionary Company will distribute some 1,500 tons of the cake to the market, up 10 per cent in quality.
Each box of four pieces will cost from VND76,000 (US$4.7) to VND640,000 (some US$39), according to Kinh Do.
Bibica Confectionary Corporation will produce over 500 tons of the cake for this year’s festival, twice what it produced last year.
Phan Van Thien, Bibica’s director of business, said that despite the material price hikes of 5-40 per cent, Bibica would only raise their products’ prices up 5 per cent.
A Bibica box containing four pieces would cost VND270,000 (nearly US$16.7) at most.
Dong Khanh Food Company will produce six tons of the cake, increasing its prices some 10 percent over last year.
A box of four pieces by Dong Khanh is priced from VND98,000 (about US$6) to 290,000 (nearly US$18).
According to recent survey, this year’s moon-cake will be very multiform, with nearly 100 types of stuffing, such as salted egg, pork, chicken, durian and lotus seed.
Name of moon-cakes will also be very exciting like Trang vang Cat tuong, and Trang vang Phu Quy.
This year, many producers will offer many kinds of high grade moon-cakes for well-off customers.
Daewoo hotel said it will offer high quality moon-cakes at prices ranging from US$17 to US$50 per box.
This year’s moon-cake market will see the presence of a special kind named ANCO Moon De vuong which is produced by ANCO Confectionery JSC. It will be sold at nearly VND3 million each.
The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tet Trung Thu) marks the harvest in Vietnam, China, and other Asian countries. The moon is described as the brightest in the year.
It has become an occasion for adults to express thanks to someone by giving mooncakes as gifts, which were once eaten mostly by children. (Thanh Nien, Market)
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