Love it, or hate it, but you just can't escape it

The Mid-Autumn Festival has come and gone but there is no escaping the mooncakes as yet. Whether you're still picking pieces out from between your teeth, or clambering over extra boxes filling the kitchen, there's bound to be some left over somewhere.

Filled with nuts, egg yolk, salted egg, bean paste, and other generic ingredients of the Chinese sweet, mooncakes are small, round, flaky pastries.

Except, unlike other food in China, they are monumentally expensive.