Even in the outpost, where it was always winter, we still ate mooncakes during the mid-autumn festival. The cooks did their best with what we had. A regular mooncake in the warmer regions would have yolk of a salted egg in the middle, but ours usually didn't.

Salted eggs, if they were included, were shipped along with all of our food when the weather permits travel to the outpost -- about three months before the festival. It only takes forty days for a salted egg to spoil, unless it was frozen. But if it was frozen, then it would taste and feel horrible.

In the end, our mooncakes were missing that and a few other things. Yet for some reason, I remember them tasting better than mooncakes back home.
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