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Hi Everyone!! Happy Mooncake festival!!! Aka, Happi Mid-Autumn Festival!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I wish I could be in China. Enjoy!! Danb.
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Hi Everyone!! Happy Mooncake festival!!! Aka, Happi Mid-Autumn Festival!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I wish I could be in China. Enjoy!! Danb.
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9/8 is Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Our Chinese Association is throwing a party with mooncakes and luckydraw this weekend. I had never crave for mooncake in China. Every Mid-autumn festival, companies buys many mooncake coupons to give to their customers as gift. Everyone at work gets tone of mooncake coupons, they then had to get ride of them by giving to their family, friends, "yellow bull"(people who sell and collect coupon to make money), or back to the store to exchange something else. The city is covered with mooncake coupons. Then all the bakery and icecream brands try hard to be creative with mooncakes, they made facier boxes or fancy ice cream mooncake.... the mooncakes are not special anymore, it was a big season to be mooncake sick.... But now that I have to miss this Mid-Autumn Festival party, I really want a mooncake. I know my 7-yr-old really want one too, cause every time, when I saw mooncake box in a Chinese grocery store, usually the most plain mooncake box, I went :oh!!!! see that's mooncake! My daughter picked up my tone, thinking mooncake is the best desert in the world. Here's what they do at the party Agenda - 6:30pm Registration Starts - 7:00pm Party Starts - 7:10pm Distribute and Taste Mooncakes (Numbers of mooncakes are limited, please come before 7:10pm to enjoy your share of mooncake) - 7:20pm Party Prize Draw - 7:30pm Interactive Games - 8:00pm Clown for Kids (balloon twisting, face painting etc.) - 8:00pm Games for Kids - 10:00pm End of Party Fees: Member: Free Non-Member: $5/person Do you still celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in the US? Does you wife make or buy moon cake for the family? BTW, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you all!!!!
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If not, you may be able to collect! Insured Mid-Autumn Festival revelers over the moon http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/812762.shtml?utm_content=buffer5a624&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer
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My better half reminded me that on September 30 Sunday will start the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in China on October 1.
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Mine was GREAT!!! Wife told me that she could not be angry with me on this day and she held to her word. This morning back to the usual grinding. I wish every day was Mooncake day!!
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It it time to celebrate our moon festival again. I pull out the recipe recorded on CANDLE and will make some moon cakes again for tonight's celebration. http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?...mp;hl=moon+cake Happy Holiday, everyone!
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Mid-Autumn Day is coming up on October 3. I was wondering if anyone here (especially people living in the US) has any special plans or ideas about where to take the wife or how to celebrate. Did anyone ever buy mooncakes online? Do you have any suggestions about where to get good ones? We missed the Dragon Boat Festival last time (too much excitement since she was just getting acquainted with life in the US) so I want to arrange something special for the Mid-Autumn Festival, preferably without her being aware in advance.
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The skies have been clear here the last two days and the moon has been nothing short of spectacular! We have been eating moon cakes with our friends at every opportunity. Last night we took some to our Romanian neighbors and told them some of the festival stories... about the woman in the moon ...and about the overthrow of the mongols. What did you do?
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Today is the Lunar Mid Autumn Festival. Hubby decided that we should make some moon cakes. They turned out to be the best I ever tasted. Here is a rough recipe: Crust: use apply pie crust recipe. Make half an apply pie crust batch (1 and 1/2 cups of floor + 1/2 cups of 0 transfat shortings + 1/4 teaspoons salt + about 1/4 cups of water). Fillings: 1 cup of steamed acorn squarsh 1/2 cups of finely chopped pitted dates 2 table spoons of soy flour 2 tea spoons of room temperature butter some pine nuts some finely chopped walnuts some pumpkin seeds a small handful of currants 1/2 teaspoon of salt Mix the filling ingredients listed above together. (Hubby made the fillings, so it was his invention with my input ) Cut the crust dough to Ping Pang size balls and roll them out. Add slightly larger amount of fillings and wrap up. Then press the wrapped ball in a flat bowl with sesame seeds at the bottom, so to have the moon cake coated with sesame seeds. Then lay them on a flat cookie sheet. Bake at around 375F (Just a guess because our oven temperature control does not work. Bake for about 20 minutes (also a guess because I didn't check the clock). Turn them around at about 2/3 of the way, till both sides turn to a light golden color. We all like the result very much.
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Well, everyone i just got back from china a week ago, it was a wonderful trip. Me and my SO went to GUZ and met some fellow CFL'ers (Buffalo Paul, DavidZixuan, Jason & Joanna) and had a wonderful time in GUZ with everyone. It was a blast to say the least remember the kids with flowers....they tackle better than NFL players....haha As I returned stateside sadly ... US customs stopped me and asked me if I had any Mooncakes on me. I said no, I ate it on the plane . I did not ask them why, but all body language and voices pointed to them taking it away from me. So my question is what is the problem with mooncakes? I was glad it was alreadly in my tummy or maybe i should be worrying ....
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With just about 16 hours until I leave for China... I'm anticipating a memorable event while there... it is not the visa interview, but our unofficial wedding ceremony which will take place on Sept 18... This day happens to also be the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Cake Festival. Last year [while in the US] at this festival time, I went out and bought a donut (as my moon cake), and sat under the evening stars and gazed up at the moon... Here is at least one link if your interested to read about this historically important festival : http://www.regit.com/hongkong/festival/mooncake.htm I have changed my avatar to reflect the story of Chang-O flying to the moon...
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Just a reminder that the Mid Autumn Moon Festival is approaching. Last year, I sent Jingwen an animated greeting card with dancing mooncakes on it. Everybody got a laugh. Looks like another long distance festival this year.
