PAPER WEIGHT: MOONCAKE (BROWN)
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Mooncake is a type of Chinese pastry traditionally consumed during the mid-autumn festival. They are usually filled with sweet lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk which symbolises the full moon. The Chinese characters inscribed on the mooncakes are often celebratory sayings or descriptions of the fillings they contain.
Taking the form of real mooncakes, the ceramic paperweight is a delightful and useful piece of stationery that stays fresh forever.
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