As the Mid-autumn Festival, which this year will fall on 1 October, draws to a close, a wide variety of children’s toys and lanterns, plus mooncakes, have been on sale across Da Nang.

However, shops across Da Nang are seeing a significant decrease in the consumption of such products against the same period last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to some sellers, such traditional toys as drums, lanterns made of plastic papers and handmade lion heads have been still attracting a great deal of attention from buyers. Meanwhile, the sales of cakes are quite stagnant.

Let’s take a quick look around toy and mooncake shops citywide, through photos captured by our reporters Xuan Son and Nguyen Le, in order to get a better understanding of customers’ demand this year’s Mid-autumn Festival.

Toys and lanterns for children are on sale at shops along such major downtown streets as Hung Vuong, Phan Chau Trinh, Trung Nu Vuong and Ong Ich Khiem.

The prices of eye-catching, colourful drums are set at 50,000 VND - 3000,000 VND per piece, whist decorative paper masks range 20,000 VND - 80,000 VND.

All kinds of traditional paper and battery operated lanterns are currently offered at between 10,000 VND - 40,000 VND per unit.

Handmade lion heads of all kinds are being sold at the prices of between 70,000 VND - 400,000 VND each, depending on the size and such ready-attached accessories as feather and blinking lights.

Eye-catching and colourful toys are attracting a great deal of attention from children.

A kid expressing her joy as her mother buys an animal-shaped plastic lantern to her

A Kinh Do mooncake stall in the city seeing a small number of buyers

The prices of mooncakes are now ranging between 30,000 VND and 100,000 VND each

 By XUAN SON, NGUYEN LE - Translated by M.D