Mid-Autumn Festival
What you do on that day?
Bring kids out for a lantern walk. Play with candles.
Businessmen will give boxes of mooncakes to their clients.
Pomelo, pig biscuit
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(Mid-Autumn Festival is October 3, 2009)
Mid-Autumn Festival
Wikipedia explains...
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Category: wikt - :Zhongqiu|Zhongqiu Festival, or in Chinese, Category: wikt - :Zhongqiujie|Zhongqiujie (), 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.Chinavoc.com article on the Mid-Autumn festivalArticle on Tsukimi explaining history of moon viewing custom It was first called Zhongqiu Ji...
How to make your own mooncake
Snow Skin Mini Mooncake
Main Ingredients:
250g Icing Sugar
125g Rice flour (fried)
50g Crisco
a few drops banana essence
110g cool water (boiled)
a few drop green coloring
1kg Red bean paste or lotus paste
Salted egg yolk (optional)
Method
1) Sift the rice flour and the icing sugar into a mixing bowl. Mix them well.
2) Mix the water, coloring and banana essence thoroughly.
3) Make a well in the centre of the flour. Pour in the liquid mixture and crisco.
4) Stir quickly with a wooden spoon. Keep the dough aside for 20 to 30 minutes.
5) Cut the dough into small round pieces.
6) Prepare the filling into small balls.
7) Put a portion of the filling into the centre of the dough and seal it up.
8) Roll it with some fried rice flour and place the dough into the mold, press it.
9) Let the dough out of the mold carefully. You have a mooncake.
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Mooncake Tins & Boxes
Mooncake tins & boxes can be so pretty that you will want to keep them.
I cannot remember how many mooncakes this tin use to contain. I have now use the box to store some of my photos and travelling tickets I have collected from Japan.
Different Type of Kids Lantern
My mom brought this plane lantern for my son during Mid-Autumn Festival in 2008. The lantern will have sound and light when you switch them on. This type of lantern is suitable for toddlers and preschool because they are safe and you do not have to deal with candles and fire. However, a bigger kid might find this type of lantern boring.
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