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Some bakeries and restaurants have attempted to go up-market, often with excellent results.

Gold-plated mooncakes were popular when they first appeared, and it is now possible to even find entire mooncakes made of pure gold.

Traditional Chinese delicacies such as ginseng and bird's nest were soon followed by abalone and shark fin.

Foreign food companies have also tried to cash in.

Häagen-Dazs were one of the first to create an ice-cream mooncake, with a choice of either the " traditional ," snow-skin, or Belgian white, milk, and dark chocolate crusts.

Other ice-cream and restaurant chains soon followed up with their own versions.

Other western ingredients, including champagne ganache, malt whisky, volcanic-salt caramel and even Black truffles, caviar and foie gras have made it into mooncakes.