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Time to buy mooncakes: Mid-Autumn Festival

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Chong:
I would be wary of the street market ones. Chinese bakeries are notorious for keeping last year's unsold Moon Cakes ... they'll cut away the outside pastry shell, freeze the interior paste filling and then re-bake to sell this year. Like anything regarding quality, you get what you pay for.

This happens not only in China but at Chinatowns in North America.

Willy The Londoner:

--- Quote from: 'Chong' pid='18343' dateline='1254109444' ---
I would be wary of the street market ones. Chinese bakeries are notorious for keeping last year's unsold Moon Cakes ... they'll cut away the outside pastry shell, freeze the interior paste filling and then re-bake to sell this year. Like anything regarding quality, you get what you pay for.

This happens not only in China but at Chinatowns in North America.

--- End quote ---


Perhaps that is the secret of a good Moon cake!!  I will do my celebrations in Londons China Town - Soho/Leicester Square.

I will recuperate in London for ten days from a really busy and strenuous three months in China and prepare for the next few years here.  Maybe not using so much energy in future!!!!

Willy

brett:
I bought a mooncake in London's chinatown at the weekend. Wow, £2.50 for a single cake, it had better be most excellent!

The lanterns in chinatown are lovely, it would be nice to go there in the evening.

Danny:
In Zhuhai and Wuhan there were Mooncakes just everywhere. In the shopping malls and all the hotels.

They're expensive too. Around 200 yuan for four seemed to be about the average price for average quality.

I saw some big boxes of them for more than 2,000 yuan - I suppose they are for rich guys to show off.

It's good to visit China sometimes to see that there is some basis for the stuff you see on chnlove. When I first saw the advertisement on chnlove I thought, "Yeah, right .  . . "

But back from China, I accept that it is a big deal now.

It's like their national day. The way it is celebrated there is a whole lot different to the way the corresponding holiday is celebrated here in Australia. In Australia, our national day is just a day off work, a good day to have a picnic with the family in the park. But in China, it's something a lot of ordinary people are really looking forward to. There were Chinese flags in most places, even in the markets, in Zhuhai and Wuhan. But not as many in Hong Kong I thought.

My YaYa (from Wuhan) is looking forward to their national day. She is teaching extra classes on the weekend to make up for the days the students will miss when her students are on holiday.

brett:
Yes, mid-Autumn is a big thing in China (2nd only after new year). This year is especially important and my beloved gets a day off for national day. Apparently she is wearing special clothes for the day, and promised to send me photos :angel:!

It was great to be in Hong Kong for mid-Autumn as they had a fireworks display in the harbour.

You can buy elaborate tins of mooncakes for the important people in your life. My girl is getting some from her boss.

We don't really celebrate our national day in England, and don't get a day off which is crazy and sad. So I will celebrate China day instead!

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