When the Chinese people talk about the Moon Festival, there are a lot of beautiful stories and poems about it. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for Family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to eat the mooncakes and celebrate this festival.
The mooncake is the typical food that everybody eats during the Moon Festival. People send mooncakes to families and friends as gifts to celebrate Moon Festival.
Most mooncakes consist of a thin, tender pastry skin enveloping the different filling. The traditional styles fillings are normally Lotus seed paste (蓮蓉, lían róng), Sweet bean paste (豆沙, dòu shā), Jujube paste (棗泥, zǎo ní), and Five kernel (五仁, wǔ rén). Now the fillings of Mooncakes have diversified to include just about anything which can be made into a paste, such as taro, pineapple, etc. And also people use different ingredients to make the different taste, such as coffee, chocolate, tiramisu, green tea, etc.
Happy Moon Festival! Try the mooncakes. You will find something you like!
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I made mooncakes with my son for a class "how to" project last year! One of the fun parts was doing our own "design" on the top with a toothpick. I wish I could say that ours looked as beautiful as the ones shown above ;-) Thanks for sharing the history!
ReplyDeleteI never try to make the mooncakes by myself. I believe your family had a lot of fun for doing that.
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