Hot from the Window ยท Savory Mooncake
Xianrou Yuebing (Fresh Pork Mooncakes)
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Ele.me delivery data for 2019 showed Shanghai, with under 2.5% of China's population, eating 53% of the fresh-pork mooncakes ordered on the platform nationwide.
Flaky Su-style pastry wrapped around raw seasoned pork and baked, best eaten hot and within a day.
Why it's made this way: Made and sold on the spot by Shanghai food shops, with queues of two hours or more at Guangming Cun before Mid-Autumn Festival; in 1989 over 70 Shanghai shops already sold them fresh.
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