Mooncake mishap

Tonight after work, Susan and I went to get mooncakes at Sanmiu, the local grocery store. We needed to get at least two boxes as gifts, one for the security guy who has been super-helpful, and one for the UM Chinese teacher who went to Zhuhai to get textbooks for us even though we didn't end up taking her class.

After we picked out two boxes of white lotus paste cakes with egg yolks for them, we were super-excited about getting a box for our apartment to share. I recognized one box from mooncakes I've had in the US, but it was more than twice as expensive as any of the others! We didn't want to spend too much money, so we decided to try one of the locally-produced brands (but not the cheapest one). Susan is not a huge fan of red bean and I've had a lot of red bean-flavored stuff here already, so we opted for lotus paste again. The box looked promising, with a pretty cover that even featured the Ruins of St. Paul:
Susan wanted to try one of our mooncakes for dessert, but when we opened the plastic wrap, a very...inauspicious scent came out, a salty sort of oily smell. She cut it open, only to find a bewildering mess of chunks rather than the white paste we had expected.

Ick.

Turns out we didn't get lotus paste...we got "Five Nuts" filling instead -_- The ingredients list only shows lotus seeds, but we also spotted what we think was walnuts and sunflower seeds (not sure what the other two nuts should have been). There was an egg yolk inside, as promised, but it wasn't that great either.

The label we didn't see until too late

We're not sure what to do with this box of undesirable mooncakes, but on the bright side, if I avoid eating them, it'll be better for my cholesterol (the nutritional information on those is scary!) Maybe I'll just get one red bean cake for the Mid-Autumn Festival, then get a box when it goes on sale post-Festival =P