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Happy 中秋节-ZhongQiuJie aka Mid Autumn Festival and 月饼-YueBing aka Mooncakes eating

It’s that time of the year again: What’s the best moon cake? Moon cake: an acquired taste? Can I regift the Mooncake boxes I receive? Do I really have to like them? 😂

Mooncake are traditionally exchanged among friends and family during mid Autumn festival. A round pastry of 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. Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by tea.

It’s Mid Autumn Festival

According to the Chinese lunar calendar (and traditional solar calendar), the 8th month is the second month of autumn. As the four seasons each have three (about-30-day) months on the traditional calendars, day 15 of month 8 is “the middle of autumn”.

On the 15th of the lunar calendar, each month, the moon is at its roundest and brightest, symbolizing togetherness and reunion in Chinese culture. Families get together to express their familial love by eating dinner together, appreciating the moon, eating mooncakes, etc. The harvest moon is traditionally believed to be the brightest of the year.

I went with the non traditional snow skin mooncake with Coconut Tea and Pandan infused white and brown lotus filling, a scattering of white pearls and heart of roasted coconut and lotus cream (dixit TWG website!) and I liked it

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13th

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Today it’s the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)

Yes in the Chinese Calendar it’s already the middle of Autumn/Fall, yet it’s another week to start Autumn/Fall in the Gregorian calendar!

Mooncakes are usually associated with the festival. It’s a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste.

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Funny how you think that no matter what you’ll stick with celebrating your own National Holiday when you start living abroad but for example the 4th/14th of July is just another day of the week if you are not in the USA/France because it doesn’t have all the festivities surrounding those holidays. We came to enjoy celebrating August 9th in Singapore or October 1st in China or May 17th in Norway. It was May 25th in Argentina but I don’t remember big celebration. 🤔

You may have a Thanksgiving Dinner but you never have it on the Thursday, you’ll do it on the Saturday because it’s more convenient for the host and for the guests. Yet for every countries you have lived you take a little bit of their traditions with you when you go. After enduring hard to swallow heavy mooncakes in China for years I finally found some that I quite enjoy… I might have to try to find some once we moved away from Asia.

PS: Plates with HDB Design from Supermama Singapore

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Garden by the Bay all light up for the mid autumn festival.
And before my FIL asks… yes those are iPhone pictures (didn’t have time to download the pictures from my “big camera” 😜)

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Thankfully I have friends who still call me when they go out shooting at night to join them.
Next challenge accepting their invitation for sunrise shoots.
Baby steps 😉

Garden by the Bay all light up for the mid autumn festival.

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