Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Happy Moon Festival

Last night was Chinese Moon Festival (or Mid-Autumn Festival) night when the moon was supposedly biggest and brightest. A bunch of us from the temple went by the water to gaze the moon and eat mooncakes. (How did it go - by the way? I didn't go because of a wicked ache in my belly.)

But I have always been fascinated with
mooncakes. Apparently, there are many many versions of the cake. In Thailand, my favourite kind was with durian and lotus seeds filling.

I found this site with pictures of
how to mold and make snow-skin mooncakes (the non-baked white skin ones). That solves the mystery of how mooncake skin looks so pretty and delicate!



Look how big the moon was!!! (Thanks Richu.)

4 comments:

  1. It was fun. Soup by the water and Mau Ying (spelling?) did a great job of telling the love story behind the mid autumn festival. Hannah brought mooncakes and a Pomelo which was cool.

    http://richuleong.com/midaut07.jpg

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  2. richu, there's no moon in your picture -- or maybe it's billy's ass... ;)

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  3. Fun times. Couldn't have asked for better weather or more beautiful moon. So tired today though.... Need a mooncake to give me some chi :)

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