And we bet veteran Hongkong singer Liza Wang, 73, has one of the largest hauls to date. After all, her Instagram Story has been filled with snaps of multiple boxes of mooncakes over the past week. She also scribbles a thank you note on each pic in true Liza-style. 

Recently, Liza posted a box of mooncakes she’d gotten from fellow Hongkong celeb Miriam Yeung. Liza had been a special guest at Miriam’s concert a number of years back, and they are thought to be well, pretty close friends.

However, netizens were not impressed with Miriam’s gift at all. In fact, they were so affronted by it, a number of them took to social media to criticise Miriam.

Just what was so “terrible" about Miriam’s gift?

Miriam, 46, had gifted Liza a box of traditional baked mooncakes from popular restaurant chain Maxim's. Mooncakes sold by Maxim's are typically priced around S$40 to S$60 for a box of four traditional white lotus seed paste mooncakes. 

However, these netizens felt that Miriam was “disrespecting” Liza’s status as an ah jie by gifting her “ordinary mooncakes from an ordinary brand”.

Some also pointed out that Miriam has received quite a number of well-designed and luxurious mooncakes from various brands over the last few weeks. Some of the brands who’d gifted Miriam mooncakes include luxury brands Dior, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton.

“Miriam’s eating [mooncakes from] Dior, but she gave out [mooncakes from] Maxim [to other people] instead”, one netizen wrote, describing the singer as “a wealthy person who acts miserly when it comes to others”.

There were a number of netizens who stood up for Miriam too. One pointed out that the “luxurious Dior mooncakes” Miriam received might’ve been made by Maxim's as well, with Dior merely repackaging the mooncakes to make it appear more luxurious. 

Another also pointed out that Liza’s pretty traditional, and that Miriam had probably taken Liza’s preferences into account before gifting her traditional mooncakes from Maxim's. 

 On September 29, Liza, who’d probably seen all the fuss over Miriam’s mooncakes, posted this on her Instagram in an attempt to “rescue" Miriam from all the hate.

“Earlier (Sep 3) I accepted Miriam’s invitation to take part in Thousand Words. Slow Cooking [Miriam’s cooking show], to share more about my life. We’ve known each other for very long, and are pretty close, and we talked about everything and anything, especially how Miriam’s taken up cooking during this period. You’ll probably be able to watch it in mid-October, she knows that I like Gucci, so she gifted me this shirt, and [a pair of] bling bling (sic) diamond earrings to thank me! Super good-looking!” read Liza’s caption.

But netizens still weren’t satisfied. A number went on to say that Liza’s “attempt to save Miriam” was way too obvious. Others also wondered why Liza’s only thanking Miriam now, for a gift that’d been given to her at the start of the month, commenting that there must be a "hidden agenda" behind Liza's post.

Photos: Liza Wang/Instagram, Miriam Yeung/Instagram