This weekend is Mid-Autumn Festival, or as I like to call it, mooncake season. But for some reason, so many of my expat friends make the same disgusted face whenever mooncakes are brought up. “Ugh, mooncakes…” as if every mooncake is exactly the same and tastes bad!

So I was curious, with so many types of mooncakes on the market these days, can people even tell they’re eating one?

Well, we put two expats to the test!

Meet Chef Jeff, a US native who’s been in Beijing “a really long time, like 18 years or so” and Jenny, our summer Teen Takeover intern from Cameroon who’s been in Beijing for about seven years.

We blindfolded the duo and asked them to taste five popular local desserts – only two of which were mooncakes – to see if they could identify what they were putting in their mouths.

Click below to watch the videos and see how they did.

To find the desserts they tried:

Theatre Tea
E-102, WFC, Middle East Third Ring Road
东三环中路1号 环球金融中心1层E-102
8587 8068

Bengtang Chocolate
APM Mall 3F 138 Wangfujing Dajie
王府井大街138号北京APM 3层K3-6
甭糖BENGTANG无砂糖生巧（王府井店）
155 0117 0520

East Beijing Hotel
22 Jiuxianqiao Lu
酒仙桥路22号
8426 0888

KEEP READING: The Mooncake Buying Cheat Sheet

Images: Mina Yan, Courtesy of vendors