The Mid Autumn Festival is coming up next month - 24 September. And lots of Chinese restaurants and hotels have started selling mooncakes! Singapore is a great place to buy mooncakes as there are plenty of fun creative mooncakes with fillings like chocolate or matcha or ice cream. This is the first time I‘m trying mooncakes from the venerable Raffles Hotel. These are champagne truffle snowskin mooncakes. We also bought traditional baked mooncakes.
The kids were so excited to pick up some mooncakes from the Hong Kong bakery (we bought one box of golden lotus paste and one box of white lotus paste) and at the nearby supermarket, I finally found these Taiwanese-style mung bean cakes with the flaky pastry which our neighbours introduced to us a few years ago. So good! Mid-Autumn Festival is October 4 this year. Plenty of time to eat more mooncakes!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I know it's not even autumn yet but 中秋节 Zhongqiujie is held every 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Which is today Sept 15. It's a day to eat mooncakes (although mine isn't round!), drink tea (a pot of Tieguanyin), play with lanterns at night and appreciate the full moon.
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