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Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner and the star of the show is non other than MOONCAKES! We believe that people from China, Vietnam must have tried the traditional mooncake at least once in their lifetime, but have you come across the weirdest mooncake flavours?

Here’s a list of 15 weirdest mooncake flavours that will leave you (and your taste buds) shocked and confused.

1.Tom Yum Mooncake

2.Instant Noodle Mooncake

3.Wasabi and miso yolk

4.Kopi with Salted Hokkaido Milk

5.Gula Melaka Pandan

6.Apple Vodka Snowskin Mooncake

7.Rootbeer Mooncake

8.Chocolate and Spicy Beef Mooncake

9.Milo Dinosaur Mooncake

10.Mooncake with crawfish filling

11.Bakkwa Mooncake

12.Canned mooncakes

13.Pickle and bullfrog mooncake

14.Chocolate mooncake with spicy beef filling

15. Yuzu Bird Nest Mooncake

1.Tom Yum Mooncake

This flavour will definitely spice up your taste buds as it is a combination of sweet-sour-spicy flavours. It is a traditional mooncake that jumbles up a mild sour and spicy kick.

2.Instant Noodle Mooncake

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Photo Seven Pie

The idea of mixing instant noodle and mooncake together is just a little weird, no? If you love instant noodles, this is something not to be missed this mooncake festival!

3.Wasabi and miso yolk

Top 15 Weirdest Mooncakes For Mid-Autumn Festival
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A Japanese twist to classic Chinese flavours, Nobu’s Lunar Fortune offerings feature quintessential Japanese ingredients such as matcha, miso, hojicha and wasabi, which are set within a traditional, Shanghai or snow skin mooncake. Nobu replaces the typical salted egg yolk with distinctive wasabi and miso fillings, adding a creative flavour profile to what mooncake-lovers are usually accustomed to. Adventurous eaters can opt for the Shanghai Black Sesame with Wasabi Yolk or the Pandan Paste with Miso Yolk Mochi.

4.Kopi with Salted Hokkaido Milk

Have you ever tried kopi flavoured mooncakes? How about coffee flavoured mooncake with a tinge of salted Hokkaido milk and a smooth snow skin layer? Sounds interesting.

5.Gula Melaka Pandan

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Photo Seven Pie

The Gula Melaka Pandan flavour contains a light coconut scent. The salted egg flavour symphonizes the sweetness of the chocolate and the savoury taste of the salted egg yolk.

6.Apple Vodka Snowskin Mooncake

An alcohol infused mooncake? It will be a new option for alcohol lovers out there! Also, the name itself is quite a mouthful but we bet that it will blow our mind!

7.Rootbeer Mooncake

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Photo Seven Pie

Root beer was one of our favourite childhood drinks, and now you can taste it from a mooncake! It has a tinge of rum and vanilla beans mixed together with a smooth layer of snow skin.

8.Chocolate and Spicy Beef Mooncake

Well, this combination is a little daring isn’t it? We’re talking about sweet meets savory, all in a mooncake itself. Will you give it a try?

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9.Milo Dinosaur Mooncake

A molten lava Milo dinosaur mooncake is every Milo fans’ fantasy! It is like eating a molten lava chocolate cake with a slightly crunchy layer. Yums!

10.Mooncake with crawfish filling

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Photo China Daily

As a new creation in 2016, the crawfish mooncake has drawn a lot of attention on the internet. Often there are four crawfish, some abalone mushrooms and vegetables in one cake.

11.Bakkwa Mooncake

Bakkwa is one of our favourite CNY snacks! But right now this too has been added into the ever-growing variety of mooncake. Other than bite-size bakkwa, there’s also melon seeds, nuts, orange peels!

12.Canned mooncakes

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Photo Weibo

This weird innovation first appeared in 2014 to preserve mooncakes. A netizen offered the recipe to make the canned treats. Put mooncakes in a jar with 3/4 part liquor and 1/4 part vinegar, and then put some slices of ginger on top.

13.Pickle and bullfrog mooncake

This year, Shanghai First Foodmall adds a new menu to its mooncake products, the pickle and bullfrog mooncake. When you split apart a mooncake, you'll see a large piece of bullfrog with pickled Chinese cabbage, as each mooncake contains a complete bullfrog leg in its filling. The bones have been removed in advance for your convenience.

14.Chocolate mooncake with spicy beef filling

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Photo China Daily

Ten years ago, a girl said to a boy, "It's impossible for us to be together, like chocolate will never be with beef." Today, it seems that everything is possible.

15. Yuzu Bird Nest Mooncake

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Photo Seven Pie

This is perhaps one of the more luxurious version of mooncake. It is one of the snow skin series mooncakes that is infused with bird nest.

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