Wishing all my relatives and friends a Happy Moon Cake Festival today 19 September 2013. The celebration also goes by the name of Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival for the uninitiated. I prefer the "cake" name because it's synonymous with my childhood memories of growing up in Penang and seeing Aunties busily making them and how I used to gorge on those sticky cakes! Nostalgic....
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| When you miss your loved ones... look at the moon and imagine, it's better than being on Skype! |
Yes, celebrating the Moon Festival has a certain feel to it as you would be gazing at the full moon and think of your loved ones and friends far away and they would in turn gaze at the same heavenly body, how touching! This practice has, however, been somewhat usurped by modern age technology. But I still prefer gazing at the full moon.
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| Intricately patterned |
Our friend the owner of a resort in Kota Kinabalu used to send us these delicious cakes with exquisite patterns every year of the Festival and I would look around the place trying to find ones just as lovely as a return gift. Missed those cakes of his as he is now in Timor Leste, developing yet another resort!
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| Delectable! |
Mooncakes, we are indeed spoilt for choice with their various shapes,designs and fillings made possible by commercialisation. Anyway the Festival will not be complete without their distinctive presence. Look for those with less sugar.
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