Tainan Prison’s officials on Wednesday said that its Prison and Detention Center Bakery is ready to take orders of tuile rolls and mooncakes from the public for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the first full moon of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, or Sept. 27 this year on the solar calendar.
Tainan Prison’s inmate bakery has long been famous for its hand-made tuile rolls, which last year netted over NT$13 million (US$398,003) in public sales and is the most lucrative item from the bakery, Tainan Prison officials said.
The number of orders has dropped this year because corporations made large donations to the victims of New Taipei City’s water park explosion in June and have cut spending on Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, officials said.
The prison also adjusted its prices upwards in response to the economy and the rise in retail prices, which have also affected sales, officials said.
This year the bakery has increased its output so the general public have more time to order the coveted rolls without the products running out, officials said.
However, prison officials urged prospective buyers to waste no time in placing their orders for the tuile rolls, as time is running short to get orders delivered before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
At Tainan Detention Center, an all female inmate bakery, the orders for mooncakes have risen due to the streamlining of its product in favor of smaller, more affordable cakes available in just two flavors: mung bean pie (綠豆椪) and egg yoke crisps (蛋黃酥), officials said.
The Prison and Detention Center Bakery’s six-mooncake box set is sold for NT$100 and the bakery produces about 1,000 individual cakes in each flavor, officials said.
The Tainan Prison bakery’s tuile rolls come in 10 flavors and about 600 bags are made daily, officials said, adding that all ingredients used meet national food safety standards.
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