MOON cake is a sign of the Chinese Mid-autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. This year the festival falls on September 21. Traditionally moon cake is eaten in celebration of the holiday. People eat moon cakes with their families during the festival, and also give them out as gifts. As a result, there is quite a demand for the special cakes. With this year’s Moon Festival looming around the corner, the manufacturers and dealers of moon cakes have gone into full-swing operation. Some of the manufacturers are even catering to people’s taste for healthy food.The Shangri-La Hotel, for instance, has released a Mini Golden Jade brand, a kind of green spirulina and yolk-contained moon cake that is said to be very low in calories.Another kind of moon cake with edible bird’s nest as the main filling has also been introduced. Bird’s nest is supposedly able to make people, the ladies in particular, look younger and more beautiful.While quality is of the utmost importance, the manufacturers are also paying a lot of attention to the packaging of the moon cakes. If you take a look at a variety of moon cake brands you will see most of the packages are of elegant, classic styles. Some moon cake manufacturers even have contracts with airline companies so that customers can mail moon cakes to over 60 cities within the country, and 100 countries and regions over the world, for free.