Mid Autumn Festival

Tonight (Tuesday) is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the second most important holiday in the Chinese calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival is when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, and is to celebrate the abundance of the summer's harvest.

The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake. Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries, measuring about 3in in diameter and 1 1/2 in thick. A thick filling usually made from lotus paste is surrounded by a relatively thin crust and contains yolks from salted duck eggs.

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