On 3 October 2025, ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival, customers queued at an oden wholesaler in Zuoying, Kaohsiung. TVBS recorded purchases of five and ten jin, a customer reporting that the person ahead bought twenty, and a truck replenishing the shop with several large baskets.
That same morning, people joined a bakery line in Tainan from 7:40; all number tickets were gone four minutes after the 9 a.m. opening. Taiwan's festival barbecue custom turns household shopping into wholesale-scale demand. The Zuoying line was not for an individual snack but for ingredients bought on behalf of an entire gathering.