🍽️ Hepu Big Mooncake

Huge mooncake with lotus and yolk.

The Hepu Big Mooncake is a Mid-Autumn specialty of Hepu county in Beihai, Guangxi, famous for its size and generous filling. A single cake often weighs over a kilogram, with a soft pastry wrapper around a filling of lotus or bean paste that wraps a whole salted egg yolk—thin skin, ample filling, rich but not greasy. Traditional making emphasizes ingredients and baking, with an impressed pattern on the golden, oily top. Along the Beibu Gulf, Mid-Autumn calls for mooncakes, and an oversized one is meant to be sliced and shared by the family, symbolizing reunion. Cut open, the oil-rich yolk meets smooth lotus paste in a sweet-savory balance. It is a premier Mid-Autumn gift in the Beihai area and has traveled far on the gulf's culinary fame; visitors to Hepu marvel at the pound-heavy cake and taste the hearty Mid-Autumn flavor of the Beibu Gulf.