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A mooncake (simplified Chinese: 月饼; traditional Chinese: 月餅) is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). [1] The festival is primarily about the harvest while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy.
Mooncakes, usually made of a rich paste filling surrounded by a thin crust, are traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, while sipping tea and gazing upon the roundest, brightest moon ...
Zhu, who grew up eating mooncakes as a child, only made her first mooncake a few years ago, after months of recipe experimentation. “A lot of Chinese baking is measuring the alkalinity and acid ...
Taizong took the round cakes and pointed to the moon with a smile, saying, "I'd like to invite the toad to enjoy the hú (胡) cake." After sharing the cakes with his ministers, the custom of eating these hú cakes spread throughout the country. [25] Eventually these became known as mooncakes.
When is Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024? And why is it celebrated? It’s time to hang a lantern and rip open a mooncake as we explore the meaning of this annual event.
Snow skin mooncake, snowy mooncake, ice skin mooncake or crystal mooncake is a Chinese confection eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a cold mooncake with glutinous rice skin, originating from Hong Kong. [1] [2] Snow skin mooncakes are also found in Macau, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. [3]
But Nancy Loo, foodie founder of EAT, Essex Asian Table in New Jersey, makes homemade mooncakes as a labor of love. She made 45 mooncakes for a festival with four different flavors last autumn ...
The Hokkien Chinese name Po̍ah-piáⁿ translates as "gambling for cakes", and the game traditionally has 63 different sized mooncakes as prizes for the winning players: 32 of the smallest cake, half as many of the next largest, and so on ending with a single large Chiōng-gôan cake. [1]