Today is the Moon festival in China. Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "zhong qiu jie". Chinese people celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival with dances, feasting and moon gazing, not to mention mooncakes. While no-one in the family wanted to partake in dancing, we were all intriged and willing tasters of the mooncakes Snow brought with her from home.
These little cakes have Chinese writing on the top depicting their contents of a combination of sweet and savory, sometimes together. There were egg yolks in one, 5 kinds of nuts in another and the last was filled with ham and a sweet paste. I would say the outside is more of a sweet pie crust, but inside it was more like cake. We enjoyed the nut variety the best. Thanks for sharing this tradition Snow. In return we'll introduce her to fruit cake at Christmas, but NOT the kind that contains neon fruit and gets passed around since no-one likes it. I make a stellar variety steeped in Irish Whisky courtesy of Delia Smith.
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