MoonCake (月饼)

More than six types of mooncakes are made for the festival which falls in the middle of the eighth lunar calendar month. This is when the Chinese moon is fullest and largest. The mooncakes can be sweet or salty - an oil and molasses-sweetened pastry filled with duck egg yolks (symbolising the full summer moon), red bean, lotus seed paste or a plain molasses and flour filling for children. Each different type is set in a patterned mould before baking.

Legend has it that in the time of the Yuan dynasty in China, an underground group led by Zhu Yuan Zang was determined to rid the country of Mongolian dominance. The moon cake was created to carry a secret message. When the cake was opened and the message read, an uprising was unleashed which successfully routed the Mongolians. It happened at the time of the autumn moon... so that is why moon cakes are eaten at that time even to this day.

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• 月饼
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• autumn
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[DSBrekus]

anyone else just randomly type in moon cake into the search bar? xD

[SupernaturallyBAMed2]

Very true. It's very rich and fattening. But it tastes so damn good. I'd rather have moon cake shops around my town than Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks.

[johnson1095]

@DSBrekus

i just typed it in so i could see what they were haha

[Search4diabetescure]

I grew up with this pastry, but my significant other told me that I need to give this up.

Ay Yah.

Growing up is so hard to do.

[lemonadeluv2547]

I saw these in Sagwa(:

[plumeria66]

My favorite dessert!

[MrSparklehooves]

This is the most seductive video about food i've ever seen...

[vivistine]

:( i want it!

[snillocgrom]

@magical11 Tsukimi is the Japanese version of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was carried over to Japan during the Heian Period (Tang Dynasty China) and both honor the harvest moon. But Japanese eat dango while Chinese eat mooncakes, makes sense, since mooncakes were invented much later in China long after the Heian-Tang diplomatic relations ended.

[vancityguy]

@Samhiuys I live in Vancouver, British Columbia. Believe me, everyone here knows what it is.

[Daniel79876]

wow

[JugglingForCake]

I ate this in China this summer, a delight! love the egg yolks.