Mid-Autumn / Mooncake Festival
Depending on where you look for the information you’ll find that dates for celebrating this festival varies. ChinaPage.com listed yesterday’s date though. We’re not Chinese (though hubby has a bit of Chinese blood in him) but thought it would be fun to join in the festivities by having some a little mooncake celebration yesterday. I was looking for regular mooncakes when I was in St. Louis recently, but all the Asian stores I visited were out, as they were offering only special mooncakes in anticipation of the festival. So I got one of the fancy boxes with all kinds of goodies….
My 3-year-old enjoyed the cookies and hubby loved the mooncake with whole duck egg yolks, but my favorite,surprisingly, was the rice-tapioca concoction with a jelly filling — and I’m not a jelly filling fan!
Some sites list the 28th as Mooncake Festival day, so if you’ve got a hankering for some mooncakes, you still have time to get yourself some and celebrate!
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4 opinions for Mid-Autumn / Mooncake Festival
Lei
Sep 19, 2005 at 8:10 am
Those look nice! Check out the weird moon cakes they have here in Vietnam:
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Luchie
Sep 19, 2005 at 7:06 pm
what a variety of moon cakes! i like eating moon cakes with lotus seed fillings.
Stef
Nov 2, 2005 at 7:12 pm
hey lei! sorry, i just saw your comment — a month late! i’m so embarrassed (didn’t receive notification but that’s no excuse) — though your mooncakes look beautiful!!! (but ugh, i don’t know if i want those — nuts???
Stef
Nov 2, 2005 at 7:13 pm
hi luchie, thanks for stopping by. i still like our hopia best!
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