中秋節

'tis time for the Mid-Autumn Festival: an evening filled with drinking hot tea, eating mooncakes made for this special occasion and watching the beautiful moon with relatives and loved ones. Or in my case, barley tea, mooncakes and looking out at a smog covered moon. My all time favorite mooncake has to be the one made of lotus and has a salted egg yolk in the middle. Yum Yum.


This looks like they're made by the Japanese, I'm not sure if they have the same festival or not, but they certainly make good pastries! (Looke like green tea flavored, I'm not a fan of green tea flavored ANYTHING other than. . . well. . . Green Tea)

Wow, 月餅 have certainly gotten more festive since I was a kid.



I don't remember much about the story behind this festival, all I remember from my childhood was that there's a Bunny on the moon who's pounding down on a bowl making something I forget. I'm sure there was actually a story behind this, but that is all I remember and I can still see the bunny on the moon to this day. And I'm not makin' this story up! Look what I found on the net: