Certainly ignoring the spirit of the season, a man made off with more than a few boxes of mooncakes in a brazen raid on a Yuen Long bakery recently.
With the Mid-Autumn festival days away, police are now hunting for the pastry pincher to deliver his just desserts.
Security footage posted on on.cc yesterday shows the moment the suspect walks into the Hang Heung cake shop on Castle Peak Road at around 5pm on Wednesday, walks up to a shelf and takes a large box containing 12 tins of the cakes.
Each box cost HK$215 (US$28), meaning the total loss was HK$2,580 (US$330).
Officers are searching for a Chinese man aged 50 to 55-years-old, 1.65 meters tall with a thin build and short black hair. At the time of the theft he was wearing a white t-shirt, black and white checked shorts, slippers, and glasses.
The website reported that one of the store’s clerks said the man from the security footage was spotted in the store last Saturday, and staff noticed he was acting suspiciously, but no one reported it as there were a lot of people inside the store at the time.
Hang Heung was first established in 1921, and is known for their traditional wife cakes, egg rolls, and moon cakes.
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