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Time to buy mooncakes: Mid-Autumn Festival

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ahkiwi:
Mid-Autumn Festival

The moon festival will occur on October 3 2009

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiu Jie, is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people and Vietnamese people (even though they celebrate it differently), dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.

Chong:
Every place in Kaiping [ and the rest of China ] has been selling them since I arrived back on August 8th. The hotels and the stores each have their own respective private label Moon Cakes. Supposely the best ones come from a company in Hong Kong ... "Wing Wan" [ in business for over 50 years ] ... but they don't sell them here in Kaiping oddly enough.

Surprising the prices aren't that much different than back home in Toronto, Canada [ $ 25 -30 Cdn for a box of 4 cakes ]. My fiancee wants to send 3 boxes back to my family but I mentioned that it's plentiful back in Toronto and that the postage freight will hurt the wallet ... so she agreed to send back only one box.

There are so many varieties ... the most popular are 1) black paste w/egg or 2) nut w/egg.

Arnold:
Oh Man ? Here I will be leaving China on the 2nd of Oct. My poor Wife . Last year she send me two Boxes with eight in each Box with different filling's . They were so good , but very rich ... it's hard to eat two at one setting . I guess we will be eating them early ? Is that bad luck ? Anybody know ?

ahkiwi:
It could be Arnold, especially if you eat more than 1 :icon_cool:

There are a lot of different types - Mooncakes

brett:
I hope to be in China in early October. Mid-Autumn is a great time to visit and if you're there look out for any local festivals that may be happening.

Oh, and don't eat too many moon cakes :icon_cheesygrin:.

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