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The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
This type of mooncake is widely available all year long while the regular modern mooncakes are usually only sold around the mid-autumn festival season. As a Muslim-majority country, mooncakes are predominantly made with halal ingredients. The crust is typically made from vegetable oil or peanut oil [21] and filled with mung bean paste.
Add the shaped balls of mooncake into the mould and press to make into a mooncake shape. Place the formed mooncakes on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake the mooncakes for 6 minutes
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]
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Bite-size meatballs are rolled in sticky rice then steamed to perfection in this traditional Chinese dish, often served at Lunar New Year as well as the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Many companies have thousands of workers and thus order thousands of boxes of mooncakes with generous commissions calculated on the total amount of mooncakes consumed. In 2006, an estimated 6,500–6,800 tons of mooncakes were consumed, with consumers having spent more than 800 billion VND for about 7 million boxes. [ 10 ]
There's no shortcut for time: homemade red bean and lotus mooncakes will take 2 days to make and 2 more days of resting before you can eat. You've been warned!