mooncake

Mid-Autumn Festival history

The festival is intricately linked to legends of Chang E, According to the Liji, an ancient Chinese book recording customs and ceremonies, the Chinese Emperor should offer sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The 15th day of the 8th lunar month is the day called "Mid-Autumn". Under the Song Dynasty (420), the day was officially declared the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is traditional mooncake

What Chinese people eat when we celebrate moon festival. We eat mooncake. Most mooncakes consist of a thin, tender pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling, and may contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in their center as the symbol of the full moon. Typical mooncakes are round pastries, measuring about 10 cm in diameter and 3–4 cm thick. A rich thick filling usually made from red bean or lotus seed paste is surrounded by a thin (2–3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs. Traditional mooncakes have an imprint on top consisting of the Chinese characters for "longevity" or "harmony", as well as the name of the bakery and the filling inside. Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by tea. However, we also have new style mooncake such as ice-cream mooncake which is my favourite and durian flavour, matcha flavour.