Wow! Mooncake in Kagoshima!

Nov 22, 2019 - After visiting Sister Maki, mother of Kagoshima Branch Elders Quorum president, Sister Lee and I stopped at a Lawson store on the way back to our apartment.  Lawson is a chain of convenience stores, much like 7 Elevens.  There is another convenience store chain throughout Japan, named Family Mart.  Those 3 chains are just all over the place.  One or more of those stores are on every block or two.  "Convenience" store is truly convenient here in Japan.  Not only can you buy things, you can send packages, get passport photos printed, designate a particular store to deliver a package to for you to pick up, and to pay for things like Japanese health insurance.  The last item was exactly why we stopped this time.  Since we only have to pay health insurance while we are here on our mission, we decided to pay it manually on a monthly basis since we didn't want to deal with the hassle of removing an automatic monthly withdrawal from our bank account.  So as we are getting ready to pay the insurance bill, I happened to look around to see what they got and lo and behold, I found that they had "moon cake".  I skipped eating mooncakes in 2018 because they are expensive and I didn't want to buy a whole box of 4 cakes and have to deal with all those extra calories.  Thought I wouldn't have to deal with mooncakes while in Japan, but there it was.  Here is the kicker, it is individually wrapped, so I don't have to buy a whole box of 4.  I can just buy one,  The ones on sale here is smaller, a little bit shorter in the diameter and about 2/3 the height, at an incredible price of only 130 yen.  Now I just could not resist.

Here it is, a day later, took a photo before I chomped it down.  Yum!  There was no egg yolk in this one, but that's OK because I prefer the bean paste only kind anyway.

Now only if I can find a place to buy Chinese sausage.