The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner and the shops are deluded with mooncakes and biscuits, some already selling them well before the festival begins. This year the festival falls on September 22.
Mooncakes come in more new and unusual flavours this year ... Mocha Milk Tea, Nutty Chocolate with Milk, Japanese Potato with Custard ... to name a few. They looked very good in the advertisement I saw but must also cost the earth!
Mooncakes with the traditional Lotus Seed and Tau Sar flavours are selling at RM12.00 and RM9.00 each respectively, a further hike in the price since last year! But mooncake lovers can sigh with relief this year as their favourite sweetmeat is now made using a low sugar recipe! I must say these mooncake makers are really very enterprising and know how to make money!
The legend of Chang'e is still fondly remembered to this day. I wonder how many households still pray to the moon but when I was small, it was an event I looked forward to! We kids would bring out our colourful lanterns and parade around the garden while the older folks watched. We were told to pray to the moon for good husbands and it was also believed that peeling and eating small yams while gazing at the moon would ensure a smooth, youthful complexion!
Enjoy your mooncakes!
A table of simple offerings to the moon.
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