Tuesday, 24 September 2013
The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated with both lanterns and moon cakes. Macau becomes this colorful city decorated with lanterns and lights. Students start handing out moon cakes to all their teachers. I thought they were just little cakes but was I ever surprised when I bit into one and found that there was an hard boiled egg in the centre. Not what I was expecting at all. I have to say I am a little disappointed with moon cakes and now I have boxes and boxes of them on my desk. So I have started handing them out to the cleaner at the school, the doorman at my apt building, the taxi driver, the bus driver. This plan seems to be working as I only have 1 box left now.
The story behind the moon cakes is explained in this article:
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20130917/the-mid-autumn-festival-the-story-behind-the-moon-cakes
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