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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.
In 2013, the UK Food Standards Agency asked trading standards authorities to alert mānuka honey vendors to the need for legal compliance. [16] The UMFHA trademarked a honey rating system called Unique Mānuka Factor, [17] but there is a confusing range of competing rating systems for mānuka honeys. In one UK chain in 2013, two products were ...
In Sri Lanka, a full moon day is known as Poya and each full moon day is a public holiday. Shops and businesses are closed on these days as people prepare for the full moon. [65] [better source needed] Exteriors of buildings are adorned with lanterns and people often make food and go to the temple to listen to sermons. [66]
The flowers are white, occasionally pink, 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) – rarely up to 25 mm (0.98 in) – in diameter, with five petals. The wood is tough and hard. Mānuka is often confused with the related species kānuka ( Kunzea ericoides ) – the easiest way to tell the difference between the two species in the field is to feel their ...
Ancestor worship is also common. Many Korean families participate in a ritual called “charye,” where female family members prepare food and males serve it to ancestors. The final step of the ceremony, called “eumbok,” involves the entire family partaking the food and seeking blessings from their ancestors for the coming year.
These three foods symbolize, respectively, the fruit of the heavens, the fruit of the earth, and the fruit of the underground. [7] Songpyeon is also said to represent the moon and wishes, which is why people will say their wishes while making and eating it. [3] Many stories describe why songpyeon is in the shape of a half moon rather than a ...
Hopia (Tagalog: [ˈhop.jɐʔ]; Chinese: 好餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-piáⁿ; lit. 'good pastry' - the name it is known by in the Philippines) or Bakpia (Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ꦥꦶꦪ, romanized: bakpia; Chinese: 肉餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-piáⁿ; lit. 'meat pastry'- the name it is known by in Indonesia) is a popular Indonesian and Philippine bean-filled moon cake-like pastry originally ...
Each full moon has its own name: May's flower moon will rise soon. Learn about the naming tradition, full moon dates and more.