The Mid-Autumn Festival, a popular harvest festival, is celebrated by people in China and other Asian countries on Wednesday. People in Liuzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, made a giant Luosifen mooncake weighed 30 kilograms to celebrate the festival. /Chinanews Photo

Cooks filled the mooncake with rice noodles, pickled bamboo shoots, black fungus, river-snails and other ingredients, offering crowds a free taste. /Chinanews Photo

Combining traditional foods of the Han, Miao and Dong people, Luosifen is a dish of rice noodles cooked with snails, a signature street food of Liuzhou featuring with its unique smell. Fans say it is a unique fragrance, others say it is a right royal stink. /Chinanews Photo

Listed as part of Guangxi's intangible cultural heritage in 2008, the packaged versions of the dish are being sold by more than 5,000 online stores on e-commerce platforms like Taobao, with daily sales as high as 200,000 packets, according to Li Jianhong of Liuzhou's commerce commission. /Chinanews Photo